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1. Max Frisch, Citoyen (Max Frisch, Citoyen)

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The film retells Frisch’s story as a witness of the unfolding 20th century, wondering if such “voices” are needed at all, or if we could do without them.

2. Lucie et Maintenant (Lucie et Maintenant)

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set out in their VW bus on a journey along the highway from Paris to Marseille that, for each of them, was to be their final one. Twenty-five years later, Océane Madelaine and Jocelyn Bonnerave set out to undertake the journey again.

3. Ya Sharr Mout (Ya Sharr Mout)

The film tells the adventurous story of an Arab-Swiss music project, of the search for nuances in times of the clash of cultures between the orient and the occident that is cited from all sides.

4. Muhai Tang - In The Ocean Of Music (Muhai Tang - Im Ozean der Musik)

MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary life. Born in 1949, the founding year of the People’s Republic of China, and raised during the Cultural Revolution, it seemed as if he would have to abandon his dream of a career in music. However, his talent, perseverance and the support of Herbert von Karajan ultimately brought him to the world’s concert halls. Today, Muhai Tang is a global nomad. A wanderer between the worlds which he unites with music. His personal history, interspersed with historical caesurae, is typical for Chinese of his generation. He gained access to western culture early on through music. Muhai Tang’s life and work are exemplary of a changing China and the enrichment of the world by an artist between East and West.

5. Frau Mercedes (Frau Mercedes)

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a documentary about a vanishing chapter of habits in Switzerland.

6. Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night (Comme des lions de pierre à l'entrée de la nuit)

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos in reeducation camps created to ‘fight the spread of Communism’. Among those exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, they managed to write poems which describe the struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda speeches constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.

7. Markus Raetz (Markus Raetz)

(Markus Raetz)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

8. Der Imker (Der Imker)

A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, except his love for beekeeping.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

9. Into Great Silence (Die große Stille)

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps . The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. The Carthusians finally contacted Gröning 16 years later to say they were now willing to permit Gröning to shoot the movie, if he was still interested.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

10. Journey to the Safest Place on Earth (Die Reise zum sichersten Ort der Erde)

Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate storage sites all over the world. More than 10,000 additional tons join them every year. It is the most dangerous waste man has ever produced. Waste that requires storage in a safe final repository for hundreds of thousands of years. Out of reach of humanity and other living creatures. The question is, where? Together with Swiss-British nuclear physicist Charles McCombie, who has been searching for a safe final storage site for highly radioactive nuclear waste for thirty-five years, director Edgar Hagen investigates the limitations and contradictions involved in this project of global significance. Supporters and opponents of nuclear energy struggle for solutions whilst dogmatic worldviews are assailed by doubt

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

11. Picture of Light

A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

12. Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense (Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense)

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.

It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.

13. Raving Iran (Raving Iran)

Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their illegally printed music album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world. Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them.

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

14. Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand (Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand)

(Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand)

15. Sira wenn der Halbmond spricht (Sira wenn der Halbmond spricht)

(Sira wenn der Halbmond spricht)

16. Raja's Reise

(Raja's Reise)

17. Dieter Roth (Dieter Roth)

(Dieter Roth)

18. Vor Burgdorf danach (Vor Burgdorf danach)

(Vor Burgdorf danach)

19. Wall Street

(Wall Street)

20. Weniger isch meh - Housi Wittlin, Musiker und Poet (Weniger isch meh - Housi Wittlin, Musiker und Poet)

(Weniger isch meh - Housi Wittlin, Musiker und Poet)