Alain Tanner – Messidor (1979)
Two Swiss girls around twenty, one a history student and the other a store clerk, meet while hitch-hiking. Out of a whim and with nothing better to do, they decide to go on hitch-hiking together...
View ArticleSergei Eisenstein & Grigory Alexandrov – Frauennot – Frauenglück AKA Misery...
Description: This short film shows the contrast between the good conditions in which a rich woman makes a abortion and the miserable and dangerous condition in which a poor woman has to do an...
View ArticleCyril Schäublin – Dene wos guet geit AKA Those Who Are Fine (2017)
In a suburb of Zurich, Alice is working at a call centre and very successful at selling internet subscriptions and insurance. She also uses her powers of persuasion to criminal ends: she cajoles and...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Le livre d’image AKA The Image Book (2018)
Do you still remember how, long ago, we trained our thoughts? Most often we’d start from a dream. We wondered how, in total darkness, colours of such intensity could emerge within us. In a soft, low...
View ArticleRolando Colla – Giochi d’estate AKA Summer Games (2011)
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic’s parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation,...
View ArticleSéverine Cornamusaz – Coeur animal (2009)
Paul and Rosine live deep and isolated in the craggy, breathtaking Swiss Alps where they have a small dairy farm. The day-to-day work attendant on this rustic if somewhat modernized two-person...
View ArticlePipilotti Rist – Pepperminta (2009)
Pepperminta is an anarchist of the imagination. She lives in a futuristic rainbow villa and according to her own rules. Colors are the young woman’s best friends and strawberries are her pets. She...
View ArticleSéverine Cornamusaz – Cyanure AKA Cyanide (2013)
Quote:Recently released from prison, Joe meets his son Achille for the first time; an explosive encounter for both the gangster and the adolescent. Achille, who lives alone with his mother and dreams...
View ArticleDaniel Schmid – Das geschriebene Gesicht AKA The Written Face (1995)
In Japanese theater women’s roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman’s role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance. He...
View ArticleChristian Frei – War Photographer (2001)
Witnessing the Witness: Looking Over a Shoulder at War’s Deprivation Even if you have never heard of James Nachtwey, the award-winning photojournalist who is the subject of Christian Frei’s new...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Le livre d’image AKA The Image Book (2018) (HD)
IMDB wrote:Nothing but silence.Nothing but a revolutionary song.A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand. 7.09GB | 1 h 28 min | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleJean-Claude Rousseau – Une Vie Risquée (2018)
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday. Directed by Jean-Claude Rousseau. 129MB | 5 min 18 s | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleJacqueline Zünd – Almost There (2016)
Three men, three continents: Bob, an American, Steve, a Brit and Yamada, who is Japanese, dare to take on new beginnings and personal journeys – in the autumn of their life. Impressive cinema with...
View ArticleDaniel Schmid – La Paloma (1974)
Quote:When you play with clichés, you have to be very careful that they don’t backfire; the little things have a way of maiming almost everything around them. Daniel Schmid’s “La Paloma” — which was...
View ArticleNicolas Humbert – Wild Plants (2016)
SynopsisPeople’s associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants....
View ArticlePatricia Moraz – Les indiens sont encore loin (1977)
“Jenny (Isabelle Huppert) is a disconnected 16-year old schoolgirl who is so taken with a story of Native Americans coming to take someone into their tribe that she wanders out into the snow in search...
View ArticleCyril Schäublin – Dene wos guet geit AKA Those Who Are Fine (2017)
In a suburb of Zurich, Alice is working at a call centre and very successful at selling internet subscriptions and insurance. She also uses her powers of persuasion to criminal ends: she cajoles and...
View ArticleKatalin Gödrös – Songs of Love and Hate (2010)
Songs of Love and Hate is a sinister drama about the power that children have over their parents – and the power of parents over their children. A universal story about temptation, lying, persuasion...
View ArticleAlain Tanner – La Salamandre (1971)
Synopsis:‘Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they’re writing a teleplay about a minor but curious...
View ArticleFrédéric Mermoud – Moka (2016)
A grieving woman pursues a couple whom she suspects of killing her son in a hit-and-run.Equipped with a few items of clothing, a little bit of money, and a weapon, Diane Kramer leaves for Evian. She...
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