Films
GIRAFFES DON'T DO IT ANY DIFFERENTLY - a film about fathers and family
2017 | Walo Deuber | 80 min.
Three hundred letters from Africa, written more than 50 years ago, lead the film author to take a great journey, during which he moves with his long-deceased father and lets himself be moved by him. more
REGILAUL - SONGS OF THE ANCIENT SEA
2012 | Ulrike Koch | 104 min.
This richly shot film explores an ancient singing tradition in modern Estonia, weaving together people and nature through song. more
URSULA - LIVING ELSEWHERE
2011 | Rolf Lyssy | 86 min. and 53 min.
The Film tells a story in which human love is ultimately the only link to the deaf and blind Ursula, to her enigmatic universe without sight nor sound; it portrays the personal relationship between Ursula and her foster mother. more
HARD(YS) LIFE
2008 | Rolf Lyssy | 66 min.
Hardy Hepp, artist, musician, composer, arranger, singer-songwriter... a full-blown artist par excellence. more
SONIC MIRROR
2007 | Mika Kaurismäki | 79 min.
A surprising and emotional dive with Billy Cobham into the world of rhythm. more
LIVING IN TRANSIT
2007 | Kornelija Naraks & Monika Litscher | 53 min.
The film offers an insight into everyday life on Zurich's transit axes. more
IT, THE HAT, SITS ON IT, THE HEAD - Robert Walser love shorts
2006 | Walo Deuber | 51 min.
7 shorts by Robert Walser are narrated and interpreted as allegorical stories, which, in Silent-Movie style, unfold in a round dance of love. more
COCA - THE DOVE FROM CHECHNYA
2005 | Eric Bergkraut | 86 min. and 53 min.
Abduction, torture, murder: Gashaeva - Coca, the dove - is compiling a documentation of the events in Chechnya. This antiterrorist action (Putin) acquires the characteristics of genocide. Coca is fighting for a tribunal to be set up. more
LAST MINUTE - TALKING ABOUT DEATH
2002 | Reno Sami | 51 min.
8 women and men, young and old, tell us in a personal and intimate way of their dead, their mourning and their funerals. more
WRITING AGAINST DEATH
2002 | Rolf Lyssy & Dominique Rub | 56 min.
The film portrays a Swiss woman making a very expending and personal contribution towards the abolition of death penalty by building up a close and long lasting relationship with her pen pal on Death Row of a prison in Texas. more
STANISLAW VINCENZ
2001 | Waldemar Czechowsky | 57 min.
A discovery with the humanist, philosopher and writer Stanislaw Vincenz (1888-1971) to the cradle of European culture. more
FADING TRACES - POSTSCRIPTS FROM A LANDSCAPE OF MEMORY
1998 | Walo Deuber | 79 mIn. and 54 mIn.
In a fascinating, spell-binding landscape, an exchange of memories takes place between witnesses still alive and those who, through their writings and music, long ago fashioned a memorial to the largest ever Jewish cosmos - right there in the heart of Europe. more