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.

У Саймона отношения любви-ненависти со своим отцом. Когда его родители уезжают в отпуск, Саймон начинает соблазнительную игру в кошки-мышки с любовницей своего отца и катастрофически запутывается в липкой семейной сети.

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.

After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children undergo an irreversible change.

Петр страстно любит свою жену Лизу и фанатично предан своей работе. Он создает марионеток. Главным его шедевром становится точная копия Лизы. Он одержим своим творением, грань между вымыслом и реальностью, куклой и живой женщиной стирается в его воображении. Ведь самая увлекательная игрушка — это чужая жизнь…

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)

Хайдар жил в одной из типовых деревень на востоке Турции. Однажды до него дошли красивые истории о счастливой жизни в Швейцарии. Мечты о новой жизни сподвигли крестьянина продать свой небольшой скот, старый дом, взять жени Мерием и отправиться в дорогу - за успехом. Хайдар собирался оставить детей на попечение родителей, но отец убедил его взять старшего сына, чтобы тот смог учить в Европе. Так началось долгое путешествие семьи Хайдар за счастьем.