ALPHORN STORY (THE)

A 75 minutes documentary film written and directed by Stefan Schwietert.
Produced by Neapel Film.

THE ALPHORN STORY by film-maker Stefan Schwietert (El Accordeon del Diablo) follows three leading innovators in Alphorn music through mountain-pastures to train-stations and expressway underpasses...

ANDREA DORIA - NIGHT OF COURAGE AND MIRACLES
(1 x 52)

Written and directed by Fabio Toncelli ("Flying over Everest").

It is the night of the 25. July 1956. The passenger ship "Andrea Doria" is scheduled to arrive in New York the following morning. But a few miles further on, still out of the fog...

Written and directed by Nicolas Rossier, produced by Baraka Productions (USA).

Through historical perspective and a critical look at the last three months of Aristide’s Presidency this documentary captures the essence of Haiti and its turbulent history...

Produced, written and directed by Christian Labhart (Switzerland).

Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo, is an ethnically divided town since the NATO intervention in 1999. A bridge formerly connected but now divides the Albanian from the Serbian part...

BUILDING THE GHERKIN
Award-winner at FIFA Féstival International du Film sur l’Art, Montréal 2006.

Production: ican films / Condor Communications (Switzerland), a feature documentary by Mirjam von Arx.

Just a month and a day after the disastrous attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the first steel beam of a new tower is erected in London...

CORN IN PARLIAMENT / MAIS IM BUNDESHUUS / LE GENIE HELVETIQUE

A 90 minutes documentary film produced Jean-Stéphane Bron.

"MAIS IM BUNDESHUUS" is a vertiginous journey down the corridors of the Swiss Federal parliament building in the captital city of Berne. Constructed as a feature film, it follows the adventures of a parliamentary committee, which has been set up to work out a law on genetic engineering (Gen-Lex).

CASE OF AL-ANFAL (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes)

Written, directed and produced by Mano Khalil (Switzerland).

"Al-Anfal" is the title of the eighth sura of the Koran. It revealed to the prophet Muhammad how the bounty, which the Muslims took in the war against the "unbelieving", should be divided...

Written and directed by Joan Úbeda, Eli Pons and Susi Marquès, produced by Media 3.14 (Spain).

Salvador Dalí had an obsession for science that lasted all his life and that can be traced to his paintings. He was a compulsive reader of scientific literature, from psychoanalysis to quantum mechanics...

DIETER ROTH
(1 x 117 / 1 x 25 / 1 x 52 planned)

Written and directed by Edith Jud. Produced by Reck Filmproduktion (Switzerland).

A portrait of German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth, one of the 20th century’s most important, influential and unconventional artists, who died in June 1988...

DIGITAL ASIA
(1 x 52 minutes)

Produced by: NZZ Film.

The Chinese digital revolution is unstoppable: In China 800 million farmers are in the process of being switched on to the web...

THE FIGHT FOR AMAZONIA (THE)

Produced by Filmquadrat (Germany).

In the Brazilian Amazon, environmentalists, scientists and politicians are facing one of the most difficult challenges of our time. If the Earth's lungs collapse, the planet itself will collapse...

Written and directed by Fabio Toncelli. Produced by SD Cinematografica (Italy).

For the very first time, a man flies over Mount Everest on a hang-glider in this award-winning documentary. Adventure and science come together in a story...

FORGER'S TALES (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes)

Produced, written and directed by Johannes Flütsch.

How close are we to the next money-forging scandal of the new Euro currency? Hansjörg Mühlematter, perhaps Europe's most talented money-forger, reveals his dangerous and adventurous career...

HABANA LIBRE
(1 x 52 minutes)

Written and directed by Stale Sandberg, produced by Big Noise (Norway, USA), Speranza Film (Cuba).

HABANA LIBRE is the unexpected story of youth culture in contemporary Cuba. The critical social transformation which grips Cuba will be shaped by the attitudes, hopes and fears...

Written and directed by Fibi Kraus and Gudrun Torrubia, produced by Gudrun Torrubia (Yemen).

"Even if we spend our lives next to each other, we hardly can make men understand our situation and our needs." This film, requested by the Yemeni Women National Committee...

HAVANA – THE NEW ART OF MAKING RUINS
(1 x 90 and 1 x 52 minutes / AVAILABLE IN HD!)

Produced by Raros Media. A film by Florian Borchmeyer and Matthias Hentschler.

Havana is famous for the morbid charm of its flaking facades. The beauty of this city lies in the poetry of its ruins. They are far less poetic, however, for the people who inhabit them...

HELVETICA
(1 x 95 / 1 x 52)

Produced by Swiss Dots and Veer. A Film by Gary Hustwit.

This doc invites us to take a second look at the thousands of printed words we see every day and how they affect our lives. Since its birth in 1957, the typeface “Helvetica” appears in corporate logos...

IN THE SHADOW OF THE PAGODAS – The other side of Burma
(1 x 52)

Written and directed by Irene Marty. Produced by Kairos Film (Switzerland).

Whereas the world knows about the oppression of Burmese political opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, little is known abot Burma’s ethnic and religious minorities...

Written and directed by Silvana Ceschi, produced by Dschoint Ventschr (Switzerland).

In December 2003 the Turkish Cypriot elections will be decisive if a united Cyprus will join the EU in May 2004. Turkish and Greek Cypriots have been living separated from each other by a wall...

LETTER TO ANNA
(TV-Version: 1 x 52 minutes / Theatrical Version: 1 x 85 minutes)

A Film by Eric Bergkraut.

Hard-hitting documentary which addresses one of the most disturbing incidents during Vladimir Putin's presidential term: The systematic killing of Anna Politkovskaya...

LOST IN LIBERIA
(1 x 52 / 1 x 90)

A Film by Luzia Schmid.

30-year-old Irish Leila wants to put her ideals to the test by registering to a training course at the Red Cross in Geneva/Switzerland. Little prepares her for her mission in Liberia...

MADE IN CHINA
(1 x 52 minutes)

Directed by Roman Weber and Yves Scagliola, produced by Slomo Filmproductions.

Since the millenium hit China's post-Maoist generation, young culturally active evolutionaries create a new underground culture. Up rises a fresh new Shanghai and Beijing with musicians, djs...

NAMIBIA CROSSINGS - Spirits and limits
(1 x 90 / 52 minutes version soon available / English and German versions available)

Written and directed by Peter Liechti. Produced by Reck Filmproduktion (Switzerland).

NAMIBIA CROSSINGS tells the story of “The Hambana Sound Company”, a troupe of 12 musicians and singers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Switzerland and Russia...

Written and directed by Kent Brainerd and Mark Chaplin, produced by Jamestown Films (London).

For years American manufacturing has felt the pressure of foreign competition, but today it’s not just blue collar jobs that are migrating overseas...

A film by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, pProduced by Irusoin (Spain).

What change can sport bring? Ever since the Spanish colony ended in Morocco 27 years ago, the Saharawi people were forced to evacuate to the refugee camps in the Algerian desert...

SIGNERS SUITCASE / SIGNERS KOFFER
(1 x 90 / 1 x 52)

An extensive illustration of the work of internationally exhibited artist Roman Signer, including many "action sculptures"...

SPEAKING HAND (THE)
(2 x 52 minutes)

Written and directed by Sumantra Ghosal, produced by Shift Focus (India).

Zakir Hussain is the greatest living exponent of the classical Indian drum, the tabla. Starting as a child prodigy playing traditional music, Zakir expanded the scope of his instrument...

THE THIN GIRLS (THE)
(1 x 52 / 1 x 90)

Produced by Chiaroscuro Filmproduktion. A Film by Maria Teresia Camoglio.

Anorexia is a deliberate self-destruction in public and the most symptomatic of all diseases in our world of exuberance and abundance. “The Thin Girls” is not about models, fashion, celebrities or fame...

TIME OF THE TITANS (THE)
(1 x 52 minutes / 1 x 80 minutes)

Written and directed by Edgar Hagen, produced by maximage (Switzerland).

This is the story of the "Grande Dixence", the world's highest dam, as high as the Eiffeltower, built around the Matterhorn in Switzerland. It took many sacrifices for thousands...

Produced, written and directed by Anand Patwardhan.

Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent, WAR & PEACE is an epic documentary journey of peace activism...