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looking she said I forget
NAOMI PACIFIQUE | FIC | 00:25 | 2024 | SWITZERLAND-THE NETHERLANDS
Having just moved to Amsterdam, Lou prepares her new apartment that she will share with her partner, Joel. For now though, Joel is on a trip with an intimate other. Confronted with the complexities of her non-monogamous relationship, Lou shifts her gaze to the rhythms of her new city.
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Let me go
MAXIME RAPPAZ| FIC | 01:33 | 2023 | SWITZERLAND-FRANCE-BELGIUM
Every Tuesday, Claudine entrusts her disabled son to a neighbour and goes to a mountain hotel to meet men passing through. When one of them decides to extend his stay for her, Claudine’s daily life is disrupted and she finds herself dreaming of another life.
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Flores del Otro Patio
JORGE CADENA | FIC | 00:15 | 2022 | SWITZERLAND
In northern Colombia, a group of queer activists use their extravagance to denounce the disastrous exploitation of the largest coal mine in Colombia through performative actions.
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The Last Campaign
LIONEL RUPP | DOC | 01:22 | 2022 | SWITZERLAND
After four years of Donald Trump’s reign, Jonathan Katz, a Jewish activist from New York, travels across the American Midwest trying to get Bernie Sanders elected president of the United States. During what is, for him as for Bernie, the last campaign, he meets a new generation of activists for whom this is only the first. More…
The Left Behind
AURÉLIE OLIVEIRA PERNET | FIC | 00:21 | 2022 | SWITZERLAND-PORTUGAL
In summer, the Portuguese countryside is ravaged by fires. Otilia struggles between her job as a pool cleaner and the need to take care of her mother alone. Stunned by this suffocating daily life, the flames awaken in her solitude, despair and the desire to escape. More…
Strangers
NORA LONGATTI | FIC | 00:20 | 2021 | SWITZERLAND
In an anonymous city, a person collapses, appearing to have lost consciousness. Some strangers pass by, others embrace her. In a solitary quest for intimacy, blinded by a world of indifference, her gaze, her body are staggering. More…
Supreme
YOUSSEF YOUSSEF | FIC | 00:20 | 2021 | SWITZERLAND
In the euphoria at the end of one of their shows, seven drag queens are confronted with violent adversaries who put their bonds to the test. More…
Our Child
MARINA BELOBROVAJA | DOC | 01:22 | 2021 | SWITZERLAND
Is parenthood the only logical continuation of every life? Has the traditional concept of the nuclear family had its day? More…
Silent Storm
ANAÏS MOOG | DOC | 00:13 | 2019 | SWITZERLAND
From the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Mediterranean, the director meets the women whose faces and voices bear witness to the loss of loved ones and ruined hopes. More…
Putin’s Witnesses
VITALY MANSKY | DOC | 01:42 | 2018 | LATVIA – SWITZERLAND – CZECH REPUBLIC
A rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power. More…
Dressed for Pleasure
MARIE DE MARICOURT | FIC | 00:16 | 2018 | SWITZERLAND
The emancipation of a young disabled girl facing parental intrusion in her emotional and sexual life. More…
The Dispossessed
MATHIEU ROY | DOC | 01:18 / 03:03 | 2017 | SWITZERLAND-CANADA
An impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, across the globe, people who produce food are paid less than almost any other profession. More…
The River’s Bed
MÉLANIE PITTELOUD | DOC | 01:28 | 2017 | SWITZERLAND
How does the course that humans impose on rivers reflect their relationship with nature? The construction site of the century – the Rhône revitalization– has begun. More…
Tadmor
MONIKA BORGMANN & LOKMAN SLIM | DOC | 01:43 | 2016 | LEBANON/FRANCE/SWITZERLAND/QATAR/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Eight Lebanese men have decided to break their silence about the long years they spent in Syria’s notorious Tadmor Prison. They talk, and relive their ordeal. More…