Urs Jucker

René

Tobias Nölle

Urs Jucker, Arthur Miranda

René is sitting in his car driving through his drab reality. Suddenly, he has to sneeze. He pauses and listens. After a few quiet moments, he murmurs, “Bless you”. Then he moves towards the camera and continues: “I am a scream without an echo.” The film is the tragicomedy of a man searching for his echo, the way out of his loneliness. All paths are blocked and his quest becomes more and more of an odyssey. Evading his own insanity and narrowly escaping death, he gradually notices that the search can only end with oneself.

Vitus

Fredi M. Murer

Fabrizio Borsani, Teo Gheorghiu

Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.

Lottery

Micha Lewinsky

Urs Jucker, Peter Freiburghaus

Philipp wishes to give his terminally ill father Walter one last treat. To coax him out of his hospital bed he tells a white lie: Philipp pretends that his father has won the lottery.

The Sandman

Peter Luisi

Fabian Krüger, Irene Brügger

One fine morning, Benno finds sand in his bed. While he tries to ignore this at first, he soon must realize that he himself is loosing the sand.

Schwesterlein

Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond

Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger

Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven’s leukaemia begins to wreak havoc on his health, she decides she must return to her roots, which has significant consequences for her relationship.

Plötzlich Deutsch

Martin Rapold, Anika Baumann

Cut Off

Christian Alvart

Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer

A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck

Sonja Heiss

Laura Tonke, Hans Löw

A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.

Moskau einfach!

Micha Lewinsky

Philippe Graber, Miriam Stein

30 years ago, Switzerland was shaken by a scandal that seems to have already been forgotten: more than 900,000 people were surveilled because of their political convictions. Against the backdrop of this "secret files scandal," Micha Lewinsky sets his film. Conscientious policeman Viktor Schuler is tasked by his superior to infiltrate the Schauspielhaus, a renowned Zurich theatre, in order to keep an eye on its leftist scene. However, Viktor finds himself quite taken with the artist's life and falls in love with the subversive actress Odile Lehmann.

Manipulation

Pascal Verdosci

Klaus Maria Brandauer, Sebastian Koch

Set in Zurich in the 1950s, a special agent who is near retirement receives a major assignment: Bring down Harry Wind, a top PR manager who has been accused of spying.

Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern

Stina Werenfels

Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily

After her mother decided that the eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to take psychotherapeutic drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. The sedated teenager was never a problem for her surroundings – but new challenges arise when the pleasure-loving young woman discovers her sexuality. The family is threatened to fall apart.

Der Frosch

Jann Preuss

Urs Jucker, Liliane Amuat

A writer falls in love with a younger woman.

Hello Goodbye

Stefan Jäger

Stefan Gubser, Urs Jucker

The film takes the viewer on a roller-coaster ride of emotions, evoking laughter and tears, hope and suffering alike. Melina is young and full of illusions. She has just fallen in love and ...

Stampede

Cyril Schäublin

Dagna Litzenberger-Vinet, Urs Jucker

A mass panic at a vast subway station somewhere in the Northwestern hemisphere leaves its survivors perplexed. What happened to trigger the stampede? At the peak of the rush hour the film goes on a journey into the landscape of public fears.

Mein Bruder heisst Robert und ist ein Idiot

Philip Gröning

Julia Zange, Josef Mattes

For teenage twins Robert and Elena, a weekend can seem endless yet still fly by. Time almost stands still while discussing philosophy, lying in a blissful cornfield near a remote gas station. They are in their own little world, a twin world of twin games and twin love. A confined world where emotions rise, where pressure mounts into rage… The turmoil of adolescence.