Jean-Marc Henchoz

Louis dirige una funeraria. Soltero empedernido, vive dedicado a su trabajo. Por una casualidad de la vida, un día se cruza con Igor, un espíritu agudo en un cuerpo minusválido a causa de una parálisis cerebral. Igor reparte verduras ecológicas mientras pasa su tiempo libre leyendo a Sócrates, Nietzsche y Spinoza. Juntos emprenderán un viaje en el coche fúnebre de Louis para transportar el cuerpo de la difunta Madeleine al lugar donde debe ser enterrada. En este recorrido salpicado de encuentros, Louis e Igor irán conquistando la libertad sobre la mirada de los demás y aprendiendo a amar la vida tal y como llega, liberándose de uno mismo.

Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.

Nadie sabe cuándo llegará el día o la hora. Ante una enfermedad, acompañada por el dolor y el deterioro físico, debemos hacer frente a la muerte. La perspectiva de lo que queda de vida es deprimente y angustiosa. ¿Qué se puede hacer para librar de esta agonía uno mismo y a la familia más cercana? Suiza es el único país del mundo donde hay asociaciones, por ejemplo EXIT, que, dentro de la legalidad, proporcionan ayuda para el suicidio a personas al final de la vida. Hace más de 20 años que los voluntarios acompañan a personas enfermas y con discapacidades hacia la muerte que han elegido, que perciben como más digna. En el documental, estos acompañantes y las personas a las que ayudan hacen frente a la muerte cara a cara, no como si fuera un tabú o un final inaceptable, sino como una liberación. En una sociedad en la que se tiene a controlarlo todo, nos hacen pensar en esta pregunta íntima y esencial: ¿no es la elección de nuestra muerte la máxima expresión de libertad?

In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.

Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of a parentless teenage boy named Antoine. Conflict comes into the story as Jean-Pierre, who has just accepted a major promotion, must now deal with caring for a teenage boy he doesn't want to care for, as well as handling his own jealous boyfriend. Then his wife steps into the picture. Things get complicated from there as Jean-Pierre tries to get out of his guardianship.

Ambicioso documental sobre la migración de las aves, un viaje que recorre más de 40 países. 4 años de trabajo y más de 140 personas contribuyeron a la creación de un singular estudio, no sólo de las diferentes aves migratorias y sus patrones migratorios, sino del ecléctico, espectacular y sorprendente planeta en el que vivimos. Estuvo nominado al Oscar al mejor documental.

Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1961. Sophie y Konrad se han propuesto huir juntos al Berlín occidental. Sophie logra burlar la vigilancia, pero Konrad es sorprendido por un coche militar y no puede escapar. A partir de ese momento, la vida de ambos sigue cursos totalmente distintos. En casi 30 años ellos sólo se ven cuatro veces. Sin embargo, durante la larga noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1989 el muro de Berlín es derribado...

A collection of woodworkers' portraits, among them carvers and coopers, roof tilers and toymakers.

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.

This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.

The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (produced in 1990) – are peasants and carriers and work with their father. In autumn and winter, they bid for the community’s wood, cut down the pine trees and bring down the logs through the snowy woods by horse-drawn sleigh.

Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.

Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.

Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.

Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after an avalanche apparently buries them alive, Antoine returns home. Certain that his uncle has also survived, he resolves to go back up and look for him—leaving his now-pregnant wife behind once more.

Adaptación de un relato breve de Leon Tolstoi: "El billete falso". Yvon es un joven que es injustamente acusado de traficar con dinero falso. A partir de ese error judicial, la adversidad dominará su vida. Durante su estancia en prisión, el ambiente en el que se mueve lo va degradando y corrompiendo hasta convertirlo en una persona sin escrúpulos ni principios morales.

Martin (Heinz Bennent), a sculptor, is dying in his bed on a barge that floats along a fog-shrouded waterway. As he agonizingly descends into a final oblivion, his second wife is at his bedside, comforted by his first wife -- also present.

A postman in a small mountain village finds a woman and her son both dead in the "grotte aux loups" (cave of wolves). He soon begins to realize than it's not natural death, and that someone in the village in behind their murder, while tragic events occur.

Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world

Secuela de "Les bronzés", también dirigida por Patrice Leconte. Ahora, tras la experiencia mediterránea estival de la primera entrega, el grupo de amigos se embarca en la aventura de los deportes de invierno. Por supuesto continuarán, al mismo tiempo, los problemas sentimentales y personales de los distintos componentes.