Premiers Pas
Philbert Mbabazi is failing to talk to “the old people” about colonisation. This is when he meets an individual in Geneva who claims to be the son of Marshal Mobutu and has himself filmed clad in an...
Helvétiques
Cédric is a farmer. Lila Ribi films him throughout the year in which he decides to radically change his working methods, abandoning conventional agriculture in order to embark on an experiment in...
Helvétiques
Armed with a camera and plenty of reckless enthusiasm, two childhood friends decide to take on the adventure of spending the summer at an alpine pasture. The two plan mainly to revive their friendship...
Premiers Pas
They belong to the generation born after the bloody separation of former Yugoslavia. Carmen Jaquier and Nagi Gianni filmed them on a promontory that overlooks the Kovači Muslim cemetery in...
Premiers Pas
On the heights of Sarajevo, in the fog, we discover men who are milling around an abandoned house. Who are they? What are they doing? What tracks are they busy trying to erase? In one movement, a slow...
Helvétiques
In Pristina, everyone knows Kadri Batusha's house, a concrete and steel castle that arose without plans, archi- tects or permits, and shelters some 300 residents on the heights of the Kosovar capital....
Helvétiques
Marcel Schaffner was a Swiss painter born in Basel in 1931 and influenced by the post-war American movements, particularly abstract expressionism and Color Field. In this documentary portrait made...
International Feature Film Competition
In an isolated corner of Japan, a community of fisherwomen harmoniously preserve their traditions. Every day, the Ama-San free dive into the sea in search of seaweed, crustaceans and shellfish that...
Helvétiques
Ibrahima, a Senegalese, takes on various small jobs in Tangiers while wait- ing to realise his dream of reaching the Old Continent. Agostinho, age 57, has spent his life fishing on his boat. But...
Helvétiques
Mahmud, aged 29, was part of the rebel movements that fought against Bachar el-Assad's regime before seeing the rise in power of the Islamic State and then also fighting them. But after ISIS attacked...
Helvétiques
A summer night, on the water's edge, hundreds of people, men and women, have gathered. It's Paris, on the banks of the Ourcq Canal, La Villette basin and it has been like this for many years. People...
Helvétiques
An account of a counter-memorial of Italian immigration to Switzerland in the 1960s is weaved through the memories of a woman whose accent suggests a potential affiliation with the theme of the film....
International Short Film Competition
What should you become, when you're already grown up? Sara Stäuble attempts to answer this question in seven surrealist paintings using a snail, a ladder, an aquarium, a table with- out guests and a...
Helvétiques
Throughout the 1980s, the young people of Geneva demanded spaces of political and cultural freedom. Their fight resulted in the creation of ‘l'Usine', a cultural action centre which has remained “the...
International Short Film Competition
The River Po is the backbone of Italy: the plains it waters are the most fer- tile in the country. Rising at the foot of Mount Viso in the Cottian Alps, its course long served as a cardinal...
Helvétiques
Riace is a small village in Calabria. Once there were warriors roaming the land. Today it is a safe haven for refugees. A small community and its idea of utopia in the heart of a growing...
International Feature Film Competition
Calabria , the title of the new film by Pierre-François Sauter, designates a geographical space (a region in the south of Italy) that is as real as it is imaginary: a ‘heimat' in...
Grand Angle
After having revealed what goes on behind the scenes in gold mining with Dirty Gold War , Daniel Schweizer tackles another issue that could tarnish Switzerland with a new scandal: the practices...
Helvétiques
Anoosh and Arash are DJs of Tehran's underground house music scene. However, the fight for their right to party is very tough. In order to organise raves, they adopt spy-like underground techniques to...
International Feature Film Competition
Urban gardeners in post-industrial Detroit, the native American activist Milo Yellow Hair and his agricultural project, the rebel gardener Maurice Maggi who changed the face of Zurich with his wild...