Kathrin Plüss

Five Chinese artists stand at the centre of the film: the modern dancer Wen Hui, the writer Ye Fu, the cartoonist Pi San and the visual artists Gao Brothers. They are part of a fragile yet courageous counterculture. Taking their own family stories as starting points, they explore the echoes of the past in order to understand the predicaments of the present. Increasingly, their struggle for a democratic civil society seems as relevant for the world today as it is for China.

Wearing heavy rubber boots, Fränz Röösli climbs atop his charcoal pile and starts poking holes into what he calls the “Grind” – the “head” or dome of the pile, which reaches four meters above ground. White smoke rises from the holes, curling around the charcoal burner to the whims of the wind before it is carried off into the dark of night. In calm, stunning images, the documentary “Köhlernächte” by Robert Müller draws the viewer into the archaic world of commercial charcoal burning in Switzerland’s Napf region.

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bär, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands. Rudolf Elmer: from insider to critic.

The story is set in Palestine in 1947, during the British mandate period. The Zionists are fighting for the establishment of a Jewish state, and four comrades in arms pressure the young Elisha to overcome his moral qualms and fully commit to the armed struggle.

An analysis of the current state of democracy in Switzerland

A documentary about nazis in Sweden.

Este reportaje perfila los cuarenta años de historia de la subcultura skinhead, que comienza con las versiones más recientes de la cultura. Uno de los asuntos que analiza el documental, es el componente político, que va desde los pensamientos de extrema derecha, a los totalmente opuestos de extrema izquierda. La película describe la transformación y radicalización de esta subcultura juvenil.

On the Hamburger Route around the world, the film gives an insight into the lives of six people who have one thing in common: They work for McDonalds.

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".

Enero de 1957, en un pequeño pueblo de la Suiza francófona. Una casa burguesa, en la que viven dos hermanas, Clara y Teresa, con un carácter fundamentalmente diferente. Tras el internamiento de su padre, tuvieron que hacerse cargo de la gestión de la pequeña empresa familiar, en la que se fabrican lentes de alta precisión para armas o investigación. Y ahora en la sala de música, el piso se derrumba, roído por un insecto formidable: el capricornio. En una reunión de la parroquia organizada para dar la bienvenida a los refugiados húngaros, se les sugiere confiar la reparación del piso a Kàroly, un hombre "que sabe cómo hacer todo", según la esposa del pastor. En la vida cotidiana casi inmutable de las dos mujeres, la presencia del húngaro dejará algunas huellas ...

A transvestite is not someone who wants or needs to identify completely as a woman, which is something he can only ever really enact. A transvestite is a definition in itself, a person at a crossroads with incredible vital strength, of which by their very ambivalence they are the synthesis. An artist and at the same time the tool for their art. This documentary follows those artists who talk about theirs lives and problems in São Paulo, Brazil.