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THE TUBE
(new: 1 x 55 minutes / 1 x 90 min. also available)
Produced by Show and Tell Films (Switzerland)
A Film by Peter Entell, In coproduction with Swiss TV TSR, ARTE and Kaos Productions
A little girl throws a fit when the television is turned off. Her father, a TV journalist, decides to get to the bottom of it. What's going on? Everyone around him seems either hypnotized, addicted, or turned into a vegetable by electronic screens. Is there proof of what people have suspected for years? One clue leads to another – from his home in Europe to the studios of Japan and the laboratories of America. His goal: to penetrate into the very heart of the TV industry. What haven't we been told? You may never watch TV the same way again… Filmed in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Switzerland. Includes the latest research on television viewer's behaviour.
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Produced by Ripple Effect Films
Produced and directed by Ana Sofia Joanes and Andrew G. Unger
Generation Meds is about a 23-years old young man, Andrew, who is among the ten percent of Americans who take SSRIs (prozac-type antidepressants.) Andrew is a talented musician and successful entrepreneur, but questions about the pills have been haunting him since he was prescribed Ritalin in the fifth grade. The film documents Andrew's journey as he sets out to interview other young people who suffer from mental problems and as he begins to implement changes that could dramatically alter his life.
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THE THIN GIRLS
(1 x 52 / 1 x 90)
Produced by Chiaroscuro Filmproduktion
Co-produced with ZDF/3Sat, 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. It is about crying for help. It is about and with some girls next door, about their agony, their struggle, their life suffering from Anorexia. The filmic encounter with a group of young women starts in a hospital for eating disorders. They attend a Flamenco class, and they cook together, with some interesting outcomes. And their video diary offers another special insight into their perception. The illness varies in cause, pattern, in degree and in progress. The affected women differ in family background, in strength, in self-consciousness, and in how they cope with the disease. In common they all have "a hungry soul in a starving body".
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DEAR SIR, DEAR DAD (CHER MONSIEUR, CHER PAPA)
(1 x 52 / 1 x 84)
Produced by PS Productions - Co-produced with Swiss TV and ARTE
A Film by François Kohler
Karim, Adrien, Tristan, Joel and Matthew are all aged between 16 and 21. They share one common trait: the physical or emotional absence of their father and their desire to find him. They let their anguish show through, the feeling of something missing yet also hope for the future. Growing up without a father is hard work. They have to fill in this gap by forming their own real, imaginary or virtual image of themselves. This search for a father and the construction of these references look like an initiatory journey. They are the first steps of moving away from childhood into the adult-world.
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THE FORTRESS
(1 x 100 minutes / 1 x 52 minutes)
Produced by Climage (Switzerland) - A Film by Fernand Melgar
For the first time, a camera unrestrictedly penetrates into the universe of a Swiss reception centre for asylum seekers. It presents a human gaze at an austere transition place, where 200 men, women and children, torn between doubt and hope, are awaiting the state's decision on their behalf. Empathy and distrust punctuate the exchanges between the residents and the staff of the centre in charge of applying the most restrictive asylum law in Europe . With emotion, though also with humour, THE FORTRESS immerses us into the heart of this daily sorting process of human beings.
Winner of Golden Leopard, Locarno International Filmfestival 2008
Nominated for Swiss Film Award
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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).
From film-maker Peter Liechti whose film LUCKY JACK – THREE ATTEMPTS TO STOP SMOKING got nominated for IDFA’s Joris Ivens Award in 2003, comes another eye-opening work. NAMIBIA CROSSINGS tells the story of “The Hambana Sound Company”, a troupe of 12 musicians and singers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Switzerland and Russia. Together they experience a journey through a country that is in the process of reinventing itself from scratch: Namibia, once former German-Southwest Africa. Encounters with local music groups in remote provinces trigger a range of emotions – dramatic and euphoric.
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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).
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