Mona Petri

Semret a single mom works at a local Zurich hospital, she does everything to ensure a better life for her daughter Joe. When Semret was wrongfully accused at the hospital she stand up for her rights, so as not to lose everything she loves.

Almost 50 years ago, women and men all over the word dreamed of changing the world. What is left today of the expectations and the hopes of the people that flooded the streets? Not much, unfortunately. The filmmaker examines episodes from his own life, trying to understand how they fit—if they do at all—with the major changes of the world that hint all at a catastrophe in the waiting.

Una colisión con una oveja en una carretera rural de Suiza inicia una serie de experiencias extrañas e inquietantes para la pareja austriaca formada por Anna y Nick, que deja a ambos incapaces de saber exactamente dónde están: en el mundo real, en su propia imaginación o en la imaginación de un tercero.

Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.

Dolores cuenta la historia de una mujer escocesa que vuelve a la Argentina luego de la muerte de su hermana para hacerse cargo de su sobrino de ocho años, pero atraída también por el amor inconcluso con su cuñado Jack. En el contexto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se desarrolla este amor, en donde los ecos de la guerra se hacen cada vez más cercanos, y la disputa mundial entre alemanes e ingleses empieza hacerse personal, cuando a Dolores comienza a seducirla un hijo de alemanes, Octavio Brand, quien lejos de ser el enemigo, empieza a ser un amor inesperado para ella, quien deberá decidir entre dos hombres.

When a 9-year-old girl discovers that her mother works as a prostitute at night, she tries to escape their morbidly symbiotic relationship in a bold move.

Eva and Max Gruber enjoy a healthy marriage. While she works as a journalist in the cultural sector, he is an independent artist teaching at a local college. The unconventional yet well-liked pedagogue can get his students to enjoy almost anything, even nude drawing. Until one day the police turn up – and accuse him of sexual misconduct. Max and Eva are shocked when the allegation comes at them like a bolt out of the blue. Following several interviews, however, it soon becomes clear that the girl did spend a night at Max’s atelier the previous weekend. Sabine Boss’s TV drama shows how social and media instigation can back a teacher into a corner.

Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his inner processes and crises as a painter, as well as his contradictory dealings with motherly love and eroticism – and ultimately his desperate struggle against death…

Iris and Peter von Roten - the most famous, provocative and beautiful couple in Swiss history. A love story full of political and moral oppositions.

A single mother of three children lives a chaotic and not very wealthy life in which her oldest daughter tries to manage everything and wants to find a decent guy for her mum.

“Many years ago, men and lions used to live in peace together and were allies. They protected each other. But little by little men forgot about their deal and in the end the lions did the same.” These are the words that Lionel’s dying grand-father whispered to him in his village in Africa. Lionel is an 11-year-old boy who leaves happily in Switzerland with his mother and step-father. During a school trip to the zoo, Lionel is irresistibly attracted to an old lion lying in a cage. The lion starts to communicate with him and asks him to find a way to set him free in order to go back to Africa. With the help of his best friend Federico and of his classmates, Lionel is determined to keep his promise…

On her eightieth birthday, a lawyer gives Frida Borel, the wealthy heiress of a textile fortune from St. Gallen, a mysterious pill from the legacy of her father, who died long ago. This miracle pill is supposed to relieve her of the misery and infirmity of old age. The effect is as surprising as it is far-reaching: Frida becomes physically young again, although she remains mentally the same age as before. But who is going to believe a 25-year-old who claims to be 80? Not even her long-time gardener, Roman, recognises her anymore. Suddenly Frida finds herself penniless. After being waited on her whole life, she now has to go to work for a living. And if that were not unsettling enough, her nephew Georg and his greedy wife, Eva, pilfer everything they can from of her villa. Frida has to acknowledge that her closest relatives would literally walk over her dead body if given the chance.

The film takes the viewer on a roller-coaster ride of emotions, evoking laughter and tears, hope and suffering alike. Melina is young and full of illusions. She has just fallen in love and ...

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.