Daniel Gibel

The psychiatric hospital was and is a disturbing place. Michel Défago, a former nurse, reports on a time when mentally ill people were still shackled or isolated. Today, nurses make every effort to free patients from their suffering and isolation.

For nearly 50 years, reporter, writer and photographer Laurence Deonna risked her life to capture the noise and anger of our times.

Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.

Alex Chen and his girlfriend, Eloane, head to the mountains in order to go rock climbing. Their light-hearted holiday is put to an abrupt end, however, when Alex receives a shocking telephone call: his brother Jun is dead. Back in Paris’s Chinatown, Alex is determined to find out what happened. While his French mother retreats into mourning, his Chinese father refuses to tell him anything in detail. The traditional wake begins and Alex is left dealing with his relatives and the imminent cultural differences. Reluctant to believe that his brother died of a sudden brain haemorrhage, Alex begins to dig deeper into his father’s family history. His beautiful yet mysterious cousin Lili, who soon begins to exert an unexplainable force of attraction upon him, assists Alex in his quest.

Após dezoito anos de casamento, Alice se vê confrontada com o fato de que seu marido Frank se sente cada vez mais atraído pelos homens. Não apenas Frank, mas também ela e os três filhos passam por uma mudança irreversível.

Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?

Portrait about the planning and rehearsal of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Calixto Bieito at the opera house in Stuttgart.

Suddenly he thinks her alone, his wife. This person whom he doesn't know how to love and who is now falling prey to a gnawing disease. This woman whom he knows so little about and whom he would like to be with him. Right now, Just like before.

A film about the state of people who are forced to live their exile as an outer event, but also as an inner destiny. That condition involves several time levels: a lost past, a disturbed present and a future rimmed with hope. In the village of Zara wandering souls are searching for things lost: letters, childhood, parents… Zara lies at the heart of an eternal search for a place of consolation and respite a search, during which memories and dreams gradually merge into an imagined present. (swissfilms.ch)

Num vilarejo paupérrimo do interior da Turquia, as histórias de sucesso econômico de turcos que foram viver na Suíça inspiram Haydar a fazer o mesmo. Ele convence a mulher, Meryem, e assim vende o pouco que tem para poder comprar as passagens. Mas ele deverá deixar com parentes seus sete filhos. O pai de Haydar, no entanto, diz ao filho que ele precisa levar ao menos uma das crianças para estudar na Europa. Eles embarcam e tudo parece seguir tranquilamente. Mas durante a viagem eles são enganados por um homem que se diz guia, são abandonados nos Alpes e Haydar e o filho ainda se perdem de Meryem.