Stéphane Kuthy

"Soup, soap, salvation." True to this motto, the Salvation Army cares for the marginalized and needy. Officer Fredi Inniger also visits homeless and lonely old people in the city of Zurich. Director Thomas Thümena accompanies Inniger in his busy everyday life with his camera.

A police officer steals some money from an international judge of a special court in Kosovo. The money was a bribe for the judge. Now the officer faces a dilemma – whether to keep the money and deny everything or figure out a way to return the money for his own family’s safety.

Giulia Tonelli, principal dancer at the Zurich Opera House, returns from maternity leave. She has to fight to find her place and a new balance, between the competitive and extremely demanding world of an elite ballet company and her new family life.

Two parents in Zurich think they have been doing everything right. Yet their teenage children disrupt their perfect family system until the parents move out themselves. The boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred.

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old, Paul Nizon grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manner. The intimate portrait of a great literary outsider emerges, for whom the risk of life and the risk of writing merge into one and the same work of art.

El sueño de Pauline y de Alex de vivir una vida alejada de la civilización se hace realidad cuando encuentran una granja situada en las montañas de Jura, en la cordillera de los Alpes. Allí ambos pueden vivir en armonía con la naturaleza. Pero para poder ser del todo autosuficientes necesitan una fuente de energía propia, tarea que encomiendan a un ingenierio llamado Samuel, que revisa la construcción de una turbina de viento.

Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova and last great musical legend of our time, Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has not been seen in public for decades. Fischer described his journey in a book, Hobalala, but committed suicide one week before it was published. By taking up Marc Fischer's quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he left us, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?

The director, a passionate musical documentary filmmaker, became fascinated by the machines used in a factory that produces stamped metal boxes. The machines, with their sonority, rhythms, tunes and automated movements, become musicians and dancers in a show that drive the film to play its cinematic score. The soundtrack, composed with workshops sounds only, unfolds as a musical masterpiece performed by machines for iron and bolt dancers, all coming together in a majestic mechanic choreography. The man who conceived and created these « iron monsters » occupies a fragile place in this powerful, metallic world, which is at the same time incredibly beautiful and musical.

André, 55, lives with his mother Louise, 80, and leads an unspectacular life. He works as a taxi driver while the elderly diva dreams of bygone days as an actress in Hollywood. One day the charismatic Bill, 50, an American, turns up on their doorstep - a stranger who will soon turn their quiet life upside down.

A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.

Documentary about Svetlana Geier, a Ukranian who has translated the great works of Dostoyevsky into German. First her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.

Baviera, Alemania, años cincuenta. El repentino regreso de la joven Kathrin al pequeño pueblo donde nació despierta los sentimientos de culpa y los fantasmas personales de sus habitantes, perseguidos por oscuros recuerdos relacionados con un asesinato múltiple ocurrido dos años antes en la granja Tannöd, un horrendo crimen que no ha sido resuelto.

Schaub and Schindelm’s documentary follows two Swiss star architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, on two very different projects: the national stadium for the Olympic summer games in Peking 2008 and a city area in the provincial town of Jinhua, China.

Martha no ha podido superar la muerte de su marido y trata de encontrar un significado a su vida. Preocupadas por Martha, sus tres amigas la convencen, a pesar de sus 80 años, de hacer realidad su sueño de ser modista. Es entonces cuando decide abrir una tienda de ropa interior femenina, moderna y con toques eróticos, dónde destacan los sugerentes diseños que ella misma imagina. Este hecho dará un giro radical a la vida de todas las mujeres, sumergidas en el ambiente provinciano de una comarca paradisíaca, pero aburrida. Hay revuelo en el pueblo y los pilares de esa comunidad conservadora tiemblan con la inesperada novedad. Mucha gente no ve con buenos ojos los escandalosos cambios, que suscitarán reacciones inesperadas. Pero las Chicas de la Lencería no se dejarán intimidar tan fácilmente.

Mayoría de edad y libre... lo que tanto deseaba. Su padre lo ve como jefe de la empresa familiar y su madre sólo quiere lo mejor para él. Pero Sebastián ya no puede soportar más. En su 18 cumpleaños anuncia su viaje a Ginebra para trabajar como canguro de una familia de alto nivel, cuidando de los niños y haciendo los quehaceres domésticos... todo para mejorar su francés, claro... Su padre no lo puede creer y se enoja, su madre no da crédito y se sale de quicio. Sólo su hermana Kathrín cree que Sebastián es realmente un chico "guay". Pero la vida en Ginebra es tan complicada como en su ambiente natal. Con un estilo de vida moderno y frío, en la suntuosa propiedad de la familia Dumoulin hay un cierto malestar: las tareas del hogar son estresantes, la señora y el señor discuten, sus hijos traen cantidad de problemas, y para colmo de males, la atractiva vecina está obviamente perdida por él.

What does it feel like to be 13, having to spend summer holidays at home? You can go to the pool, read magazines and sink into boredom… or fall madly in love for the first time.

Documentary in 7 segments whose theme is "Multicultural Switzerland". The segments are: "Raclette Curry", "Was Wie Wann Wohin Gehört", "Home Alone?", "Hopp Schwyz", "Mixed Up", "Making of a Jew" and "Train Fantôme".

Un chico de 15 años (Beni) se enamora de Fogi, una cantante de una banda de Rock. Fogi lo seduce y Beni está dispuesto a seguirlo a donde él quiera. Pero Fogi es un adicto a las drogas y tira de Beni más y más en el infierno de la adicción a las drogas.

We accompany the 90-year-old filmmaker Alexander Hammid on a stroll through New York, wandering with him through the outer and inner landscapes of his world. The observation of details takes on a meditative character.

Sweet, 12 year-old Stefanie, played by child model Soraya Da Mota, dreams of attacking her parents with a flail.