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NITROGLICERINA

by Christoph Kühn

2k, color, 70’, 2024

 

in co-production with RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera italiana

 

original version: italian with italian subtitles

 

Starting from the local thugs and the youth struggles of the 70s and 80s,  “NITROGLICERINA” opens up to reflections on today’s society, where even in Ticino violence via social media often becomes a viral spectacle.

with Roger Brunschweiler, Jean Claude Rothenbühler, Nicola Stravalaci as Rolando, Maria Ariis as Cristina, Tanino Liberatore, Luigi Zoja, Reto Medici, Trappers PurpleDom, Dominic “PurpleDom” Viviani, Nicolò Santiago Brunoni, Santiago “Tuki” Fantoni

Credits

Director: Christoph Kühn

Production: ventura film sa, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

Producers: Elda Guidinetti, Francesco Jost, Silvana Bezzola Rigolini

Director of photography: Nicola Maccanetti

Sound: Markus Egloff, Manuel Vidal, Guido Lombardo

Editing: Francesco Jost

Original music: Max Viale

ISAN: 0000-0006-1E8C-0000-7-0000-0000-G

DEER GIRL

by Francesco Jost

original version italian subtitles english, french and german

HD, color, 85′, 2023

coproduction with Vivo Film, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

You are looking for Love! Rachele laughs at the stranger with whom she chats online. She doesn’t believe in love, and she leads us to discover the only feeling she knows – the strong poisonous bond which unites her parents. In public they seem still tenderly in love, but behind closed doors, it’s all possession fear submission and pain. Rachele wants to be different, but can she really be so, when the only form of love she knows is violence?

with

Denise Tantucci

Giorgio Tirabassi

Anita Caprioli

Anita Kravos

Matteo Olivetti

L'ETÀ DELL'INNOCENZA

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

by Enrico Maisto

Original version: italian subtitles: english

DCP, color, 75′, 2021

co-production with START and Rai Cinema

World Premiere: Festival dei Popoli 2021

The courtroom is deserted. In the distance, a tiny character is trying to line up symmetrically the huge chairs. It’s President Anna Conforti. It ’s been a few days since she pronounced the last verdict of her life as a judge. Anna is my mother. Since I was a child, the feeling that there was no little secret that “the president of the court” would not have discovered, has led me to deny her any access to my emotions. Everything she has ever known about me, she had to guess it from the movies I’ve started making since I was a little kid. Now that she’s retiring the fear of my mother getting old without ever really knowing anything about me, pushes me to film her. But an unexpected event disrupts the balance. My mother undergoes surgery for breast cancer. Her wish to know me, to know that I am capable of being happy, gets stronger, and so does my need to fulfill it. The beginning of my first important relationship is the chance to try and open up, coming out from that comfort zone behind the camera where I’ve been hiding since I was a child. The Age of Innocence is the story of a sentimental education told through my subjective camera.

 

3/19

by Silvio Soldini

original version: italian subtitles: french and german

HD, color, 120′, 2021

coproduction with Lumière & Co.

World Premiere: 57. Solothurner Filmtage

The life of Camilla, a successful lawyer with a grown-up daughter, is turned upside down one rainy night in Milan. A car accident, for which she may be responsible, involves her in an investigation that will take her far away from the places and landscapes she is used to visiting. At her side on this mysterious and uncertain road is Bruno, director of the morgue, with whom Camilla – while trying to reconstruct the life of a stranger – discovers herself.

With

Kasia Smutniak

Francesco Colella

Caterina Forza

Anna Ferzetti

OUTLAND

by Michael Schindelm

HD, color, 88', 2021

co-production with RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana

original version: english, german, italian subtitles: english, german

The starting point of the documentary is the conviction of the author (a citizen of Ticino since 15 years) that the landscape between St. Gotthard and Chiasso still represents a magical parallel world, a land that inspires, welcomes, and even protects those who come to live their lives on their own terms.  

Reconnecting to the life in Ticino of Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings – the founders of Dadaism – the film focuses on some of those who in recent years have arrived in Ticino and decided to stay, walking the thin line between breaking or making it. 

They are a dancer from Siberia who integrates shamanic practices into her craft. A Kurdish bus driver who translates Machiavelli’s “The Prince” into his mother tongue. An Iraqi artist and his dead brothers. A teacher from Transylvania, and her Californian husband who has been writing a book for twenty years. A painter with Taiwanese roots, who reminds her husband of a wisteria. Just like Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings, the founders of Dada, they were all inextricably drawn to Ticino, yet never quite settled… In Outland.   

SAITENSTICH

by Raphaela Wagner

Switzerland

Original version swiss german with english and german subtitles

HD, color, 12′, 2021

in coproduction with SRG SSR

World Premiere: Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2021

St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1902.

Needles, yarn, embroidery – that’s all the 11-year-old working-class girl, EMMA, is supposed to care about… Instead she clutches a battered old violin case and, lured by her love for music, sneaks into the concert hall of JAKOB UHLER. Caught! Despite her violin missing two strings, she pleads with Uhler to let her play. In a deceitful plan, Jakob Uhler agrees and offers Emma the opportunity to play in his concert hall – because maybe a shameful performance will finally make the girl stay away. Desperate to find a replacement for her missing strings, Emma gets increasingly into trouble until even her violin’s remaining two string break. Emma’s dream of a self-determined future threatens to shatter forever.

with

Lona Böni, Pascal Ulli, Michèle Breu, Manuel Kühne, Norbert Böni, Philipp Langenegger, Michelle Graf

NHA MILA

Denise Fernandes

 

HD 18’30’’ . 2020

a production a Furia (Portugal) ventura film (Switzerland)

in coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

Originak Version Cape Verean Creole and Portuguese

Subtitles  English . Portuguese . Italian

Word Premiere Locarno Locarno 2020

Pardi di domani

After 14 years away from Cap Verde, Salomé is forced to return to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda ,a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as “Mila”, her childhood friend, and invites her to leave the airport and spend the stopover at her home, with the women of her family. The neighborhood transports Mila on a spiritual journey, which unfurls the painful bond with her native country.

CAST

Salomé/Mila YAYA CORREIA  

Águeda MARIA LUÍSA SANCHES  

SheilaCLEO TAVARES  

 Celina LUORENÇA SEMEDO

CREW

screenplay and direction DENISE FERNANDES

assistant director PATRICK MENDES

images MARTA SIMOES

sound  MIGUEL MORAES CABRAL

art director MARIE FAGES

editing PEDRO FILIPE MARQUES

color correction PAULO AMERICO

mix ANTONIO POREM PIRES

production manager JOAQUIM CARVALHO

PRODUCERS

O Som E A Furia

LUIS URBANO & SANDRO AGULLLAR

ventura film

ELDA GUIDINETTI . ANDRES PFAEFFLI

RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

ALESSANDRO MARCIONNI . WALTER BORTOLOTTI

WORLD SALES

PORTUGUESE SHORT FILMS AGENCIA

Salette Ramahlo

agencia@curtas.pt

www.agencia.curtas.pt

SWISSFILM 

aspetto verifica 00AA7BFEF3D5440BBDEF813C582C46D7

ISAN 0000-0005-B6C7-0000-O-0000-0000-2

PAUL NIZON: DER NAGEL IM KOPF

by Christoph Kühn

HD, color, 90’, 2020

co-production with RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera italiana

original version: Swiss-German | French

World premier

Solothurn, 55. Solothurner Filmtage, 22.01.2020 – 29.01.2020

“PAUL NIZON: THE NAIL IN THE HEAD” tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to be” in Paris. Now 90-year-old, Paul Nizon grants insights into his life and work in a self-ironic, direct manner. The intimate portrait of a great literary outsider emerges, for whom the risk of life and the risk of writing merge into one and the same work of art.

Credits

Director: Christoph Kühn

Writer: Christoph Kühn

Production: ventura film sa, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SRG SSR

Producer: Andres Pfaeffli, Elda Guidinetti, Silvana Bezzola Rigolini

Cinematographer: Stéphane Kuthy

Sound: Manuel Vidal

Editor: Mehdi Sahebi

Musik: Peter Scherer

Picture Design: Patrick Lindenmaier

Sound Design: Jacques Kieffer

Mix: Gina Keller

ISAN: 0000-0004-9A76-0000-R-0000-0000-U

World Distribution
ventura film sa

Festivals

Solothurn, 55. Solothurner Filmtage, 22.01.2020 – 29.01.2020

MOKA NOIR: NO MORE COFFEE IN OMEGNA

by Erik Bernasconi

black / white 93', 2019

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera

World Premier

Rome, 14. Festa del Cinema di Roma, 17.10.2019 – 27.10.2019 

In the Italian town Omegna an unusual industrial center was born in the twentieth century: the so-called “houseware district”. The sister companies like Bialetti, Alessi and Piazza exploited the post-war economic boom and became known worldwide. Following economic crises, generational changes, globalisation, relocations, and the workers’ struggles, the golden years ended drastically leaving an immense void not only in the abandoned establishments but also in the hearts of the local population. 

Credits

Director: Erik Bernasconi

Writer: Matteo Severgnini, Erik Bernasconi

Production: ventura film sa, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SRG SSR

Producer: Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfaeffli, Silvana Bezzola Rigolini

Cinematography: Ariel Salati

Sound: Edgar Iacolenna

Edit: Samir Samperisi

Musik: Zeno Gabaglio

Picture design: Davide Legittimo

Sound design: Riccardo Studer

Mix: Riccardo Studer

ISAN: 0000-0004-54AF-0000-H-0000-0000-N

World Distribution
ventura film sa

Festivals

Rome, 14. Festa del Cinema di Roma, 17.10.2019 – 27.10.2019

Solothurn, 54. Solothurner Filmtage, 24.01.2019 – 31.01.2019

GATEWAYS TO NEW YORK_OTHMAR H. AMMANN AND HIS BRIDGES

by Martin Witz

Switzerland, 2019, 88'

The story of the great Swiss structural engineer, Othmar H. Ammann, who emigrated in 1904 and redefined the art of bridge building in America. Ammann's own life, career, and breathtaking constructions were framed by the steady, dynamic acceleration of 20th century America – the roaring twenties, mass motorization, the Great Depression, war, suburbanization, and the economic boom that led to modern consumer society.

GATEWAYS TO NEW YORK_OTHMAR H. AMMANN AND HIS BRIDGES    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Martin Witz Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The story of the great Swiss structural engineer, Othmar H. Ammann, who emigrated in 1904 and redefined […]

LIBELLULA GENTILE. FABIO PUSTERLA, THE POET'S WORK

by FRANCESCO FERRI

color, 73', 2018

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera

World Premiere: Visions du Réel, Nyon

Fabio Pusterla is a Swiss poet recipient of the prestigious Swiss Schiller award and the Gottfried Keller award. The documentary Libellula gentile follows Pusterla during his daily work and succeeds in grasping the creative process and the effort to search for a honest poetic language reflecting one’s experience, revealing a hidden reality and sharing it, creating a deep bond with the readers.

LIBELLULA GENTILE. FABIO PUSTERLA, THE POET’S WORK    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by FRANCESCO FERRI Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Fabio Pusterla is a Swiss poet recipient of the prestigious Swiss Schiller award and the Gottfried Keller award. The […]

MY BROTHER'S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT

by PHILIP GRÖNING

4K, color, 174', 2018

coproduction with Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, Bavaria Films, L Films, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

World Premiere: Berlinale 2018

Philip Gröning describes a period of upheaval on the cusp of adulthood, in a film whose rhythm is determined by the twins’ subjective sense of time. This last summer together could go on forever. But the more they battle to become independent of each other, the more they lose themselves in their symbiotic relationship. Too much of one mind to become two. And too little of one mind to stay just one. The end of a childhood. The end of the world. A film about an impossible love.

MY BROTHER’S NAME IS ROBERT AND HE IS AN IDIOT    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by PHILIP GRÖNING Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Philip Gröning describes a period of upheaval on the cusp of adulthood, in a film whose […]

IL COLORE NASCOSTO DELLE COSE

by SILVIO SOLDINI

HD, color, 115', 2017

coproduction with Lumière & Co, Rai Cinema, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

World Premiere: Mostra d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia

Teo is a creative in a trendy ad agency. Nice and charming he enjoys life as an elusive womanizer. Emma is blind since the age of 16 but that has not stopped her from becoming an osteopath. She is pretty, vibrant and has great friends. When they first meet, Teo is mesmerized by her sexy voice. Intrigued and attracted by her as he has never been with a blind woman, he takes her on a date. Emma is too smart and sharp to give into the illusion but against all odds it’s Teo who is hooked.

IL COLORE NASCOSTO DELLE COSE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by SILVIO SOLDINI Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Teo is a creative in a trendy ad agency. Nice and charming he enjoys life as an elusive womanizer. Emma is […]

SICILIAN GHOST STORY

by F. GRASSADONIA, A. PIAZZA

HD, color, 120', 2017

coproduction with Indigo Film, Castaldi Pictures, Mact Productions, Rai Cinema, RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

World Premiere: Semaine de la critique, Cannes

In a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who’s in love with him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity surrounding her. To find him, she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance. Only their indestructible love will be able to bring her back.

SICILIAN GHOST STORY    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by F. GRASSADONIA, A. PIAZZA Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details In a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who’s […]

STORIA PROBABILE DI UN ANGELO: FERNANDO BIRRI

by Domenico Lucchini and Paolo Taggi

HD, color, 78', 2017

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

An extraordinary poetical meaningful journey that takes the public into the world and the work of the great master of the South American cinema, Fernando Birri. As Birri said, it’s his "spiritual kino last will".

STORIA PROBABILE DI UN ANGELO: FERNANDO BIRRI    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Domenico Lucchini and Paolo Taggi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details An extraordinary poetical meaningful journey that takes the public into the world and the work of […]

ISOLA DEI SOGNI

by Christoph Kühn

HD, color, 48', 2016

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

The fascinating portrait of Baroness Antoinette di St. Leger, mysterious figure of multiple artistic talents. Her life was dedicated to the realisation of a dream and the creation of a veritable heaven on earth on the Brissago Islands. The parable of a visionary woman with an extraordinarily creative force who, having come from the splendour of the Russian court, died in a pauper's institute in a Ticino valley.

ISOLA DEI SOGNI    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Christoph Kühn Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The fascinating portrait of Baroness Antoinette di St. Leger, mysterious figure of multiple artistic talents. Her life was dedicated to the realisation of […]

7 MINUTES

by Michele Placido

HD, color, 2016

coproduction with Goldenart Production,Rai Cinema, Manny Films, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

World Premiere: Festa del Cinema di Roma. Festival Selections: Tokyo International Film Festival

The owners of an Italian textile factory sell the majority of their shares to a corporation. Apparently, no workers will be laid off. Workers and employees can feel safe. But there is a small clause in the agreement the new ownership wants the Factory Council to sign. Eleven women will decide for themselves and as representatives of their colleagues if to accept the proposal or not. Little by little, the debate becomes heated and their stories, hopes and memories come out. A kaleidoscope of pulsating lives, so different from each other - lives of women, mothers, daughters.

7 MINUTES    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Michele Placido Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The owners of an Italian textile factory sell the majority of their shares to a corporation. Apparently, no workers will be laid off. Workers […]

ANNA PIAGGI: UNA VISIONARIA DELLA MODA

by Alina Marazzi

HD, color, 52’, 2016

coproduction with Mir Cinematografica, Rai Cinema, RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana in collaboration with Nonfiction Planet (Germany). ARTE/NDR, Associazione Anna Piaggi

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

Festival: Official Selection Biografilm Festival 2016, Fashion Film Festival Milano 2016

Celebrated for her eccentric outfits and as an intimate friend of designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Gianni Versace, Castelbajac and Manolo Blahnik, Anna Piaggi recognised the conflation between art, society and culture that determined a new direction in fashion and defined its success on a global scale. The film retraces the story of this amazing journalist via the capital cities of fashion – Paris, London, Milan – and makes use of precious archival footage, unpublished photos provided by the archives of Alfa Castaldi, her husband and noted fashion photographer; Ugo Mulas; Baldo Fabiani; and the testimonies of some of the most known designers in the world.

ANNA PIAGGI: UNA VISIONARIA DELLA MODA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Alina Marazzi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Celebrated for her eccentric outfits and as an intimate friend of designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Gianni Versace, Castelbajac and […]

IL FIUME HA SEMPRE RAGIONE

by Silvio Soldini

HD, color, 73’, 2016

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

Festival: Official Selection Biografilm Festival 2016, International Competition. Festival Della Mente di Sarzana

Alberto Casiraghi and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years to valuable editorial and typographical activities, still printing with mobile characters, preserving the memory of a perfect ingenuity made of manual skills and technique, but also of inventiveness and poetry. They seem to be living with their work, characterised by care, quality and beauty, in a world aside, far from the frenzy of contemporary society, a microcosm which persists and resists by virtue of the passion and pragmatism of a craft, of the breath of poetry. This encounter with these remarkable figures has become a declaration of love for thought and art.

IL FIUME HA SEMPRE RAGIONE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Silvio Soldini Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Alberto Casiraghi and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves […]

VANGELO

by Pippo Delbono

HD, color, 85’, 2016

Co-produced with Stemal Entertainment e RAI Cinema, Snaporazverein, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Les Films du Fleuve

Official selection: Venezia, Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days Festival: Poindimié, Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples | Doc Lisboa 2016

Awards: Premio SIAE Venezia | Nastro d’argento speciale for directing | Poindimié, Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples, Jury special Award for the International Competition

VANGELO    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Pippo Delbono Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Awards: Premio SIAE Venezia | Nastro d’argento speciale for directing | Poindimié, Festival International du Cinéma des Peuples, Jury special Award for the International Competition […]

PERIPHERY OF NOTHING

by Zjiad Ibrahimovic

HD, colore, 77’, 2016

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SRG SSR

original version: Bosnian

subtitles: English, Italian

Festival: Film Festival Diritti Umani di Lugano

A portrait of contemporary Bosnia, achieved through a series of interviews to landmine victims. A radical film on the borderline between public and private.

PERIPHERY OF NOTHING    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Zjiad Ibrahimovic Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details A portrait of contemporary Bosnia, achieved through a series of interviews to landmine victims. A radical film on the borderline between public and […]

LA OBRA DEL SIGLO

by Carlos M. Quintela

2015, HD, 100’

Copruduction with Rizoma Films, Raspberry & Cream, M-Appeal, Uranio Films Original version: Spanish

Official selection IFF Rotterdam, Competition. Awards: Hivos Tiger Award - Lions Film Award Rotterdam IFF Festivals: Miami International Film Festival, Cinélatino - Rencontres de Toulouse, Bafici, Esperanza IFF, Sydney Film Festival, Taormina Film Festival, Filmfest München, Jerusalem IFF, Yerevan IFF, Durban IFF, Era New Horizons, Wroclaw, Guanajuato IFF, Festival de Lima, Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine, Sarajevo FF, World Cinema Amsterdam, MCI Festival Sao Paulo, Vladivostok IFF of Asian Pacific Countries, Trinidad+Tobago IFF, Donostia, San Sebastián IFF, AFI Latin American FF, Washington DC, Rio de Janeiro IFF, Vancouver IFF, Busan IFF, Montreal IFF New Cinema, Festival Days of Cinema - Palestine, Kino Latino Köln, Viennale, Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali, Corona Cork FF, Clique FF, Minsk IFF, Brasilia International Film Festival, CineBaix Latin American FF, Ljubljana IFF, exground filmfest Wiesbaden, Filmar en América Latina, Festival de Cine Global Dominicano, Thessaloniki IFF, Goa IFF, Belgrade Auteur FF, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Habana IFF), First Look Festival New York, Göteborg IFF, Portland IFF, San Diego Latino FF, OJOLOCO Latin American FF Grenoble, New Cuban Cinema FF, Emilio Indio Fernández: Cine sin Fronteras FF, Cine Las Americas FF, International Festival of Film and Urbanism "86", Desierto IFF, Innsbruck IFF, Festival Cuba im Film, International Architecture & Film Festival, Panoramica Latinfilm Festival

There is a plague of some sort. Mosquitos, maybe? Two fumigators from the public campaign against dengue fever get ready to sanitise one of the many apartments in a tower block situated in the ENC. The Electro-Nuclear City was once part of the grand Soviet-Cuban project to build the first nuclear power plant of the Caribbean. Now, the scant remains of this world weigh down on the backs of three solitary men who, unlike their pet fish Benjamin, have yet to learnt how to breathe underwater.

LA OBRA DEL SIGLO    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Carlos M. Quintela Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details There is a plague of some sort. Mosquitos, maybe? Two fumigators from the public campaign against dengue fever get ready to […]

THEY CHASED ME THROUGH ARIZONA

by Matthias Huser

HD, color, 86’, 2014

coproduction with Lava Film, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SRF Schweizer Fernsehen

original version: Polish

Festival Selections: Official selection Festival del Film Locarno 2014, Concorso Cineasti del Presente; Festival del Film Locarno 2014, Concorso Cineasti del Presente; 50th Solothurn Film Festival; Bafici; Shanghai IFF; Gydnia Fllm Festival Polen; Festival Mlodtzi I Film Warsaw; Der Neue Heimatfilm, Five Lakes Film Festival

The analogue era is over and apparently so is the marriage of Leonard and Marbella. Leonard’s last work is to dismantle the telephone booths scattered in the countryside. For the job he gets a driver - Ben - a convict on parole. The two men drive among flat landscapes and postindustrial sites in a pick-up truck. Leonard’s only refuge from maneuvering in the unmapped territory of human connections becomes an old western novel.

THEY CHASED ME THROUGH ARIZONA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Matthias Huser Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The analogue era is over and apparently so is the marriage of Leonard and Marbella. Leonard’s last work is to dismantle […]

OFF TARGET

by Erik Bernasconi

HD, color, 94’, 2014

coproduction with RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, SRG SSR, Teleclub

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

Festival selections: 50th Solothurn Film Festival, SIFF Salento International Film Festival 2015

OFF TARGET is the story of a peculiar day in a very quite middle-class neighborhood suddenly upset one morning by an unusual event: a black taxi driver, apparently well-integrated and the fiancé of the pharmacist’s daughter, is shot at by an alleged sniper. Who fired the gun and why is the question everybody will be asking for the following 24 hours. Meanwhile a chain of suspicions, misinterpretations and irrational reactions escalate into totally unexpected situations that unearth the normally hidden aspects of all neighbors.

OFF TARGET    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Erik Bernasconi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details OFF TARGET is the story of a peculiar day in a very quite middle-class neighborhood suddenly upset one morning by an unusual event: a […]

SMOKINGS

by Michele Fronasero

HD, color, 90’, 2014

coproduction with Indyca., RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, MA.JA.DE. Filmproduktion

original version: Italian

Festival selections: Visions du Réel, Nyon, April 2014 - Visions du Réel 2014 - Festival dei Popoli 2014

The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its products all over the world. Every day millions of people would buy cheap packets of Marlboro, Camels and Lucky Strikes online. When sales reached over one hundred million, "Big Tobacco" started to fight the "Little Guys" and sued them for 550 Million dollars, obligating them to shut their website down. The two brothers decided to build their own cigarette manufacturing company in the outskirts of Turin, taking the fight to Philip Morris in an effort to level the playing field. Their goal is to take revenge and to attack tobacco multinationals by every means at their disposal. But today, the Italian government too and their severe regulations has changed the course of this on-going debate. So the two brothers are even more dedicated to try and fight against the system. smoKings is like a gangster movie, in that there are not good guys here, just small bad guys fighting big bad guys. Who's going to win this unfair battle?

SMOKINGS    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Michele Fronasero Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its […]

ALFONSINA

by Christoph Kühn

HD, color, 80’, 2013

coproduction with Rizoma S.r.l., RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Spanish

subtitles: English, French

world premiere: 28. Mar del Plata Film Festival, Nov. 2013 Festival Selections: 28. Mar del Plata Film Festival 2013. 49. Solothurner Filmtage 2014

Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) is a legend in Argentina. In the "Alfonsina y el Mar" (Alfonsina and the Sea) song created in the 1960s - and still being sung everywhere even nowadays - Alfonsina is celebrated as a heroine who plunges into the waters of the Atlantic with a heavenly blessing. The legend describing her as an intrepid feminist and the poet of scandalous verses, was born while she was still alive.

ALFONSINA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Christoph Kühn Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) is a legend in Argentina. In the “Alfonsina y el Mar” (Alfonsina and the Sea) song created in the 1960s – and […]

DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN

by Philip Gröning

HD, color, 175’, 2013

collaboration with Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, Bavaria Film, Bavaria Pictures, 3L Filmproduktion, BR und ZDF/arte, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: German

subtitles: English

Awards: Premio Speciale della Giuria, Venice Film Festival 2013. Festival Selections: International Competition, Venice Film Festival 2013

A simple film. A man, a woman, a child. A small town. The square apartment. Perfect sundays. The story of a young family. The ceaseless labor of love out of which emerges what is later called the soul of a person. Creating the cradle of love that nurtures the child’s evolving soul. Affection and distance. The father’s career at the local police department and the mother solely devoted to caring for the child. The violence between husband and wife. We watch as this woman sinks and how she does everything she can to save this child’s soul, to keep it intact, to let it grow, to teach the child love. The Police Officer’s wife is a film about the virtue of love, the virtue of curiosity, the virtue of joy. And about the dark within us.

DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Philip Gröning Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details A simple film. A man, a woman, a child. A small town. The square apartment. Perfect sundays. The story of a young […]

PER ALTRI OCCHI

by Silvio Soldini

HD, color, 94’, 2013

coproduction with LUMIÈRE & Co., RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian

Festival selections: Visions du Réel 2013

Enrico is a physiotherapist but as soon as he can he goes off on a sailing boat, Giovanni is a small entrepreneur, he is a passionate skier and loves enjoying life, Felice is a sculptor who plays baseball, Luca is a musician who loves photography, Loredana is a telephone operator and a keen archer, Mario is a sport fanatic retired telephone operator, Gemma studies the cello and does sky races... Different eyes tells the “everyday adventures” of a group of people who have something in common: their blindness. They live with the handicap which scares the most all of us who can see. But they live with a serenity, a passion and a courage that make their lives richer than many other.

PER ALTRI OCCHI    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Silvio Soldini Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Enrico is a physiotherapist but as soon as he can he goes off on a sailing boat, Giovanni is a small entrepreneur, he […]

VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA

by Emma Dante

HD, color, 93’, 2013

coproduction with Vivo film, Wildisde, Slot Machine, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

Awards: Coppa Volpi for the best Actress, Venice Film Festival 2013. Festival selections: International Competition, Venice Film Festival 2013

It’s a Sunday afternoon. The scirocco wind blows pitilessly upon Palermo when Rosa and Clara, two women arriving to celebrate a friend’s wedding, get lost among the city streets and end up in a sort of cul-de-sac: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same moment, another car driven by Samira, in which the Calafiore family is amassed, arrives in the opposite direction and enters the same street. Neither Rosa at the wheel of her Multipla, nor Samira, an ancient and stubborn woman at the wheel of her Punto, intend to give way to each other. While the Calafiore family withdraw into the illegal building where they live and organise a gamble, with the complicity of the neighbours, on which one of the two women shall hold her position longest, Clara decides to leave the Multipla to continue her discovery of Palermo on the scooter of Nicolò, the youngest in the Calafiore family, who escorts her willingly. Evening falls, then night penetrates within the street and the neighbourhood houses, but the two women, resisting hunger, sleep and thirst, seem to be obeying a stubbornness holding no more rationality and persist in not yielding way to the other…

VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Emma Dante Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details It’s a Sunday afternoon. The scirocco wind blows pitilessly upon Palermo when Rosa and Clara, two women arriving to celebrate a friend’s wedding, […]

IL COMANDANTE E LA CICOGNA

by Silvio Soldini

35mm / DCP, color, 108’, 2012

coproduction with Lumière & Co., RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera / SRG SSR

original version: Italian

subtitles: English, French-German

Festival Selections: 17th Busan International Film Festival - World Cinema, Nominations: Swiss Film Prize 2013 for the best Feature Film, Ciack d'Oro 2013: Claudia Gerini, nomination Migliore Attrice non Protagonista; Vinicio Capossela: nomination Migliore Canzone Originale, David di Donatello 2013: Giuseppe Battiston; Miglior Attore non Protagonista

Leo is a working-class father who struggles to raise his two motherless children: Elia (who is skipping school absorbed in secretly raising a stork), and his teenager sister Maddalenawho, unbeknownst to herself, has been tagged as a porn star in the internet. To help his daughter out of her unpleasant plight, Leoends up in the office of a shady lawyer, where he meets Diana a budding artist that’s decorating the place. The coming and goings of Leo, his children, Diana and a fresco of friends and passers- by, are followed with a critical and highbrowed eye by the statues in the square, in a dreamy atmosphere of a misty Turin.

IL COMANDANTE E LA CICOGNA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Silvio Soldini Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Leo is a working-class father who struggles to raise his two motherless children: Elia (who is skipping school absorbed in secretly […]

TUTTO PARLA DI TE

by Alina Marazzi

HD / 35mm, color, 83’, 2012

coproduction with Mir Cinematografica, RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera, Rai Cinema original

version: Italian

subtitles: English, French-German

World premiere 7th Rome International Film Festival - Cinema XXI competition Festival selections 7th Rome International Film Festival - Cinema XXI competition

Pauline (Charlotte Rampling) returns to Turin ‐ her place of birth ‐ for the first time after many years and gets in touch with Angela (Maria Grazia Mandruzzato), whom she had earlier met abroad and who now manages a Maternity Center. Here Pauline undertakes a research project on the experiences and problems of today's mothers, starting from the statements, videos, photographs collected by Angela. Among the mothers attending the Center there is Emma (Elena Radonicich), a young and elusive dancer in deep crisis: she doesn't know how to face the responsibilities demanded by motherhood and sees her life at a standstill. She feels alone and inept. Between the two women, a relationship of complicity develops, which in a play of reflections, will lead Pauline to come to terms with her own tragic past and allow Emma to discover a meaningful sense of self in her new identity as a mother.

TUTTO PARLA DI TE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Alina Marazzi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Pauline (Charlotte Rampling) returns to Turin ‐ her place of birth ‐ for the first time after many years and gets in […]

THE SUBSTANCE - ALBERT HOFMANN'S LSD

by Martin Witz

35mm / HD, color-b/w, 89’, 2011

coproduction with RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera, Teleclub, Lichtblick Filmproduktion, Spotlight Media Productions

original version: German, English

subtitles: English, French-German, Italian

AWARDS 17h Berlin & Beyond Film Festival: Audience Award, 8ème Pariscience Festival International du Film Scientifique: Prix Audace 2012, Moscow Contemporary Science Film Festival 360°: Special Jury Prize FESTIVALS 64. Festival del Film Locarno - Compétition Cinéastes du Présent / world premiere, 54th Dok Leipzig - International Programme, 8°Festival de Cine Europeo Sevilla - Eurodoc, 28. Kasseler Dok Fest, 52. Festival dei Popoli Firenze - Best of festivals, 24th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - Reflecting Images, 25th Leeds International Film Festival, Max Ophüls Preis 2012, 35th Göteborg International Film Festival, 47. Solothurner Filmtage, 14th SF Independent Film Festival, San Francisco, FICUNAM 2012 - Festival Internacional de Cine Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 14th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Prague- Panorama, 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Stories to tell, 17th Vilnius International Film Festival - Actual documentary, 11th Eurodok, Oslo, 14th BAFICI, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, 8th International Documentary Festival DOCVILLE, Leuven, DOXA 2012, Documentary Film Festival Vancouver, 9th Planet + Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, 38th Seattle International Film Festival, 11th Transilvania International Film Festival, 8th Biografilm Festival, Bologna, 24th Galway Film Fleadh, 8th Monterrey International Film Festival, 6th Sydney Underground Film Festival, 17h Berlin & Beyond Film Festival San Francisco, Pariscience 2012 - Festival International du Film Scientifique, Moscow Contemporary Science Film Festival 360°, 26th Brisbane International Film Festival, 23. Kinofest Lünen

By coincidence rather then by design the swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact not only on the scientific world. An investigation into our troubled relation with LSD. Told from its beginnings until today.

THE SUBSTANCE – ALBERT HOFMANN’S LSD    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Martin Witz Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details By coincidence rather then by design the swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. […]

GLAUSER

by Christoph Kühn

HD, color-b/w, 75’, 2011

coproduction with SRF-Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR

original version: German, Swiss German / other versions: Italian

Festival selections: Premiere Locarno Film Festival 2011 - Official Selection

Münsingen. The night is quiet, and black. Friedrich Glauser, the legionnaire, Dadaist and morphine-addict writer, reviews the sum of a failed life. Flashes of memory recall his childhood in Vienna, his father, who did not understand him, his mother, who died when he was 4 years old and for whom his love has remained intact. Moments of the past appear like iridescent bubbles, they grow, grow and refuse to pop. Writing is his white magic, with which he erects a bridge between the madhouse and the world, morphing into stories and above all into detective novels. He created a positive father figure with the persona of sergeant Studer, which would make him famous. On regaining his freedom, Glauser fled from Switzerland, to lead a troubled and errant life with his partner Berthe Bendel between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. But the further he departed with a desire to create a new existence, the more his cruel and merciless past returned. He died aged 42, the day before his wedding.

GLAUSER    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Christoph Kühn Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Münsingen. The night is quiet, and black. Friedrich Glauser, the legionnaire, Dadaist and morphine-addict writer, reviews the sum of a failed life. Flashes of memory […]

LE QUATTRO VOLTE

by Michelangelo Frammartino

35mm, color, 88’, 2010

coproduction with Vivo Film, Invisibile Film, Essential Filmproduktion, with the support of Istituto Luce, RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera

international version

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2010 - Quinzaine des Réalisateurs: Europa Cinemas Label: Best European movie / Palm Dog: Special Jury Prize, Nastri d’Argento 2010: Special Silver Ribbon, FilmFest München: Cinevision Award, Bobbio Film Festival: Gobbo d’Oro, Era New Horizons Film Festival: Audience Award, Motovun Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award, Reykjavik International Film, Festival: Golden Puffin, FIPRESCI Award, Festival du Cinema Italien d’Annecy: Special Jury Prize, CICAE Award, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal: Prix de l’Innovation, International Film Festival 2Morrow: Grand Prix, Bergen International Film Festival: Best Picture Award, International Film Festival Bratislava: Grand Prix, CPH:DOX Copenhagen: DOX:Award, Festival del Cinema Indipendente Foggia: Critics Award, Sulmona Cinema Film Festival: Ovidio d’Argento Best Film, Istanbul AFM Int.Independent Films Festival: Best director & Turkish Critics Association Special Prize, Montevideo International Film Festival: Best Film & FIPRESCI Mention, Nominations David di Donatello 2011: Best Director, Best Producers, Best Sound

LE QUATTRO VOLTE is a poetic cinematic vision of the revolving cycles of life and nature, and the unbroken traditions of a timeless place. The story of one soul through four different lives: a film that transforms images into absolute presence.

LE QUATTRO VOLTE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Michelangelo Frammartino Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details LE QUATTRO VOLTE is a poetic cinematic vision of the revolving cycles of life and nature, and the unbroken traditions of a timeless […]

MY REINCARNATION

by Jennifer Fox

Digital Betacam, color, 100’, 2010

coproduction with Zohe Film Productions, Lichtblick Film, Vivo film and Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation, in association with ZDF/ARTE, RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera, YLE-1, American documentary/POV, Impact Partners, Harley Film Foundation

original version: English, Italian, Tibetan

subtitles: Italian, English

Awards: CINE Golden Eagle Award 2011, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2010 - Top 20 Audience Award. Festival Selections: Dok Leipzig 2010, Festival dei Popoli Florence, IDFA Amsterdam, Solothurn Film Festival, ZagrebDox, One World International Documentary Film Festival Prague, Hot Docs Toronto, Munich DOK.fest, Asian Buddhist Film Festival Singapore, Krakow Film Festival, Sidney Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festival

The documentary tells the unprecedented twenty-year story of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu - one of the last great reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet - and his Italian born son, Yeshi’s, stubborn reluctance to follow in his father’s footsteps. When Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche escaped Tibet in 1959, he settled in Italy, where he married and had two children, of which Yeshi was the first. Yeshi was recognized as the reincarnation of Rinpoche’s uncle, a famous Dzogchen master, who died after the Chinese invaded Tibet. Yeshi grew up in Italy and never wanted to have anything to do with this legacy. He didn’t want to be a Teacher like his father, nor did he want to return to Tibet and the monastery of Rinpoche’s uncle, to meet the students waiting for him since his birth—something that his father continually admonished him to do. Instead, he dreamed of a normal life, away from the hoards of devoted students that always surrounded his father. Through intimate scenes we see a young man grow from 18 years old to 39 years old and maturity; and a father who begins the story in his 50 year-old prime turns to 70 years and old age. As the story unravels what is at stake is Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche’s spiritual tradition; for Yeshi it is his own identity. Will Yeshi’s Western lifestyle replace his family tradition and his spiritual roots? Will his father succeed at transplanting the vanishing Tibetan heritage to the Western world? The stories of both the father and the son combine in a universal drama that taps into the classic narrative of family and inheritance. As time passes, both father and son begin to change, giving the film the scope and depth of great fiction.

MY REINCARNATION    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Jennifer Fox Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The documentary tells the unprecedented twenty-year story of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu – one of the last great reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet […]

LA BICI IN ROSA

by Francesco Jost e Andres Pfaeffli

HD, color, 44’, 2010

coproduction with RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian

A week of wheels, colours and speed at the Road Cycling World Championships in Mendrisio, narrated by women who reveal with their perception an unexposed side of profound emotions, usually hidden by competitive performance. Days when everything lights-up, people become nicer, smiling, and cram together to live this big celebration. Bicycling is People’s sport. And the public knows the champion races alone against time and itself. Not just for the victory. He fights to conquer the respect of the fans, the respect of the road.

LA BICI IN ROSA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Francesco Jost e Andres Pfaeffli Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details A week of wheels, colours and speed at the Road Cycling World Championships in Mendrisio, narrated by women who […]

SEGRETI E SORELLE

by Francesco Jost

HD, color, 85’, 2008

coproduzione con RTSI-Televisione svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

Emilia and Paola are sisters who have drifted apart over the years. The sale of their mother’s home gives them a chance to meet again, but also relive old misunderstandings. While the memory of their mother is apparently the reason for their problems, Emilia has a secret, which is really a silent call for her sister’s help.

SEGRETI E SORELLE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Francesco Jost Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Emilia and Paola are sisters who have drifted apart over the years. The sale of their mother’s home gives them a chance to […]

MIRNA

by Corso Salani

Digital Betacam, color, 75’, 2009

coproduction with Vivo Film, RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian, Spanish

subtitles: Italian, English

Festival Selections: Locarno Film Festival 2009 - Filmmakers of the Present Competition, Annecy Cinema Italien, Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa, Der Neue Heimatfilm Filmfestival Linz, Premio Libero Bizzarri Doc Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli Firenze 2010

Buenos Aires. When Monica and Mirna meet by chance, nothing will ever be the same again. However, their relationship is hindered by the fact that Mirna has to leave, to follow a deep calling to a lost place in her past. To the Andes.

MIRNA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Corso Salani Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Buenos Aires. When Monica and Mirna meet by chance, nothing will ever be the same again. However, their relationship is hindered by the fact that […]

CUSTODI DI GUERRA

by Zijad Ibrahimovic

Digital Betacam, color / b&w, 52’, 2009

coproduction with RSI-Radiotelevisione svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English

Awards: Silver Eye Award 2009 Nomination. Festival Selections: Locarno Film Festival 2009, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2009, IDFA, Docs for sale, FIPATEL Biarritz, Solothurn Film Festival 2010, Cinéma du reel Paris 2010, First Film Competition

A man returns to his homeland for a funeral. The bodies of his parents were discovered in a mass grave. Someone who returns home after twenty years is looking for answers. War, however, does not offer answers, it produces questions. The home he had left was lived in by other people and then abandoned. The walls of the house bear signs of violence, of memories. Looking at the rooms, the man searches for the meaning of the events. Memories overlap with the worn out images on an old video tape- the every day routine of a town that could have never fathomed war. In his own way, the man begins to question the meaning of the words home, roots, escape, war, exile, future and peace. He discovers that “maybe the only real truth is that my town has not changed, that it has stayed the same, waiting for me, without haste. Almost as if it knew that sooner or later I would have returned, to come to terms with the past.“

CUSTODI DI GUERRA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Zijad Ibrahimovic Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details A man returns to his homeland for a funeral. The bodies of his parents were discovered in a mass grave. Someone who returns […]

OUT OF BOUNDS

by Fulvio Bernasconi

35mm, color, 86’, 2007

coproduction with itc movie, bianca film, SSR SRG idée suisse, RTSI-Televisione svizzera, ARTE, Rai Cinema

original version: Italian other versions: French, German

subtitles: English, French-German, Spanish

Awards: Locarno Film Festival 2007: Silver Leopard for Best Actor to Michele Venitucci, Brooklyn International Film Festival 2008: Best Cinematography, Santa Marinella Film Festival 2008: Best Film, Festival International du 1er Film d’Annonay 2009 : Best Music, Quartz 2008: Nomination for Best Swiss Feature Film. Festival Selections: Trieste Film Festival, Festival del Cinema Europeo di Lecce, Festroia (Competition), Shanghai International Film Festival, Mosca International Film Festival, MedFilm Festival Roma, Osaka European Film Festival, Tallin Black Nights, Festival International du Film d'Arras Tofifest (Torun)

The story of MIKE, a young Italian boxer from Trieste. A troubled man, like many of his peers; thirty years old and still a dreamer. Mike’s dream, shared by his sister Anna, is to become a champ in the near future. But, as often happens real life is harsh, bitter, and full of hidden dangers. Mike falls for the allure of these dangers. He starts earning a lot in illegal fistfights, but soon discovers that it’s not a world he likes. And getting out will be harder than he ever imagined.

OUT OF BOUNDS    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Fulvio Bernasconi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details The story of MIKE, a young Italian boxer from Trieste. A troubled man, like many of his peers; thirty years old and still […]

VOGLIAMO ANCHE LE ROSE

by Alina Marazzi

35mm, color-b/w, 81’, 2007

coproduction with Mir Cinematografica, Rai Cinema / Cult Fox Channels Italy, RTSI-Televisione svizzera, Yle Teema Ateljee

original version : Italian

subtitles : English, French-German

Premiere Locarno Film Festival 2007 – Piazza Grande / Awards: Nomination David di Donatello 2008: Best Documentary. Festival Selections: London Film Festival, IDFA Amsterdam, Torino Film Festival, Filmaker Doc Milan, Seattle International Film Festival, Feminale Women’s Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli Florence, Bergamo Film Meeting, DokFest Munich, Annecy Cinema Italien, Rome International Film Festival, Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt, New York Documentary Film Festival, Genova Film Festival

VOGLIAMO ANCHE LE ROSE aims to portray the deep change brought on by the sexual revolution and the feminist movement in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s. The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Anita, Teresa and Valentina come from different Italian regions and different social backgrounds, but share the same feelings: they no longer feel part of a society based on the patriarchal family, on the power of “husbands” and on the supremacy of males, which requires them to be efficient mothers, obedient wives and virtuous daughters. The Italy in which these stories are unfolded is not as distant in time as it may seem, and its cultural and social conquests not as firmly rooted as one would think. By focusing on the battle for women’s rights in Italy, the film addresses the struggles for equal rights worldwide, past and present, in the belief that no battle won can be taken for granted forever.

VOGLIAMO ANCHE LE ROSE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Alina Marazzi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details VOGLIAMO ANCHE LE ROSE aims to portray the deep change brought on by the sexual revolution and the feminist movement in Italy […]

DUTTI DER RIESE

by Martin Witz

35mm, color – b/w, 94’, 2007

coproduction with SSR SRG idée suisse, RTSI-Televisione svizzera, Teleclub AG

original version : German, French

subtitles : French, German, English

Premiere Locarno Film Festival 2007 - Ici & Ailleurs / Awards: Filmprize City of Zurich 2007, Nomination Prix Walo

DUTTI DER RIESE is the first film which focus in detail on the personality of the Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler, the man who divided 20th century’s Swiss society: a convinced democrat - but with the temperament of a dictator - a visionary and at the same time a realistic and calculating person. A war profiteer in his youth, thereafter a humanist, a powerful popular orator and a social politician. Swiss patriot and convinced European, Robin Hood, attentive husband, fighter, grouser and player, he became - toward the end of his life - a dubitative spirit. The figure of Gottlieb Duttweiler is today much more topical than he could never have imagined in his crazier dreams.

DUTTI DER RIESE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Martin Witz Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details DUTTI DER RIESE is the first film which focus in detail on the personality of the Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler, the man who […]

SALATA BALADI

by Nadia Kamel

Digital Betacam, color, 104’, 2007

coproduction with Snooze Productions, Les Films d’Ici, RTSI-Televisione svizzera, Cityzen TV

original version: Arab, English, Italian, French, Hebrew (o.v.)

subtitles : English

Premiere Locarno Film Festival 2007 - Ici & Ailleurs / Awards: San Francisco Arab Film Festival: Best Documentary, Mumbai International Film Festival: Best Long Documentary & FIPRESCI Award, National Film Festival, Egypt: Certificate of Merit. Festival selections: Locarno Film Festival 2007, Middle East IFF Abu Dhabi, Paris Grand Ecran, Cinema East Film Fest, New York, IDFA Amsterdam, Solothurn Film Festival, Women Film Festival Alexandria, Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival, Festival Docatunis, Tunisia, Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival München, Beirut Docudays, DocLisboa, Les Etats généraux du Documentaire de Lussas, London International Documentary Film Festival

21st century Egypt, spurred by the rallying cries of a global clash of civilizations, risks drowning in a xenophobic frenzy. MARY, a grandmother, and her daughter (the filmmaker) join efforts to give Mary's grandson, Nabeel, a glimpse into possible alternatives: the family's 100-year history of mixed marriages. Like many Egyptians, after a century sprinkled with multiple immigrations, a few conversions and a few mixed marriages, Nabeel is a mix of Egyptian, Italian, Palestinian and Lebanese with some Russian, Caucasian, Turk and Spanish; from his Moslem, Christian and Jewish descendants he inherits a track record embracing socialism, fascism, communism, nationalism, feminism and pacifism. But as the grandmother weaves her way through the family fairy tales, she bumps into her own fears and the continued silence shrouding one branch of the family grows distressingly louder. In an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people dispossessed by the creation of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948, Mary has been boycotting her Egyptian Jewish family in Israel for 55 long years. Inspired by the telling of her own stories and the fresh perspectives her 10-year-old grandson brings to them, she and her loving, eclectic circle engage in the breaking of arguably one of the most vicious taboos in modern Egypt.

SALATA BALADI    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Nadia Kamel Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details 21st century Egypt, spurred by the rallying cries of a global clash of civilizations, risks drowning in a xenophobic frenzy. MARY, a grandmother, and […]

COLOSSAL YOUTH

by Pedro Costa

35mm, color, 155', 2006

coproduction with Contracosta Produções, Les Films de l'Etranger, Unlimited, RTP-Radio Télévision Portugaise, RTSI-Televisione svizzera, ARTE

original version: Portugese

subtitles: French, English, Italian

Awards: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Independent/Experimental Film&Video Award. Festivals: Cannes Film Festival 2006 - Official selection - Competition, Torino Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Belgrade International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival, London Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Ventura, a Cape Verdean laborer living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is suddenly abandoned by his wife Clotilde. Ventura feels lost between the dilapidated old quarter where he spent the last 34 years and his new lodgings in a recently-built low-cost housing complex. All the young poor souls he meets seem to become his own children. EXTRAIT DIALOGUE Nha cretcheu, my love, being together again will make our life beautiful for another thirty years. As far me, I will come back full of love and strength. I wish I could give you a hundred thousand cigarettes, a dozen of those fancy dresses, a car, the little lava house you’ve always wanted, a four-penny bouquet. But above all else, drink a good bottle of wine, and think of me. Here it’s all work. We’re over a hundred now. I still don’t have anything from your hand. Maybe I will soon… Sometimes I’m afraid of building these walls, me, with a pick and cement and you, with your silence.

COLOSSAL YOUTH    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Pedro Costa Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Ventura, a Cape Verdean laborer living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is suddenly abandoned by his wife Clotilde. Ventura feels lost between the dilapidated […]

VOLEVO SOLO VIVERE

by Mimmo Calopresti

35mm, colour-b/w, 75', 2006

coproduction with USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Gagé Produzioni, Wildside Media, Rai Cinema, RTSI Televisione svizzera

original version: Italian

subtitles: English, French

Awards: Nomination David di Donatello: Best Documentary, Nomination Nastri d’Argento: Best Documentary, Capri Hollywood Festival: Peace Award, Agave di cristallo, Lerici: “La memoria come presente” Award. Festival Selections: Bellaria Film Festival, Jerusalem International Film Festival, Festival des Films du Monde de Montreal, Annecy Cinema Italien, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Göteborg International Film Festival, Wisconsin Film Festival, Solothurn Film Festival, Festival de Cine Italiano de Madrid

Nine stories through which we follow the most significant events of this harrowing experience: the enactment of the racial laws in Italy, the futile escape attempts, the deportation, the separation from other family members, the miraculous survival in Auschwitz, and liberation with the arrival of the allied soldiers. Words that we may not be hearing for the first time, but which narrate the many aspects of these tragic accounts: from the most intimate and personal to the more notorious and cruel. These individuals, through their testimonies, are not afraid to reveal feelings of tenderness and compassion, as well as moments of happiness. Mimmo Calopresti made this film by viewing and selecting from the hundreds of Italian testimonies collected in the archives of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, as well as archival footage and photographs taken from the personal photo albums of the survivors.

VOLEVO SOLO VIVERE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Mimmo Calopresti Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Nine stories through which we follow the most significant events of this harrowing experience: the enactment of the racial laws in Italy, the […]

LA TRADUCTRICE

by Elena Hazanov

35mm, color, 90', 2006

coproduction with TSR and Filmocom (Russia)

original version: French, Russian

subtitles: French, English

Awards: Geneva Quality Award. Festival Selections: Festival Kinotavr Sootchi 2006, Filmfest München 2007, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2007, Solothurn Film Festival 2007, Festival du Film Francophone de Vienne, Rassegna del Nuovo Cinema Europeo di Genova, Festival International du Film d'Arras, Festival Int. du Film Francophone en Acadie (Canada)

IRA is Russian, IVAN TASHKOV too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her motherland. Tashkov is an alleged Russian mafia godfather, in prison waiting for a political-economical trial. Translator for Tashkov's defence lawyer, Ira very quickly falls under the spell of Tashkov, a powerful and cultivated man, who seems to read in her thoughts. On the other hand, Tashkov immediately understands how to manipulate the young woman who is looking for her roots and strives to find her own way in life. Little by little Ira lets herself be captured by a world unknown to her where she is trapped between Tashkov and his lawyer MAYARD, a brilliant, charming but ambiguous man. It's too late when Ira understands that danger also hides where you least expect.

LA TRADUCTRICE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Elena Hazanov Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details IRA is Russian, IVAN TASHKOV too. She is 23 years old, lives in Geneva with her mother and knows very little about her motherland. […]

INTO GREAT SILENCE

by Philip Groening

35mm, color, 164’, 2005

coproduction with Philip Groening Filmproduktion, Bavaria Film, TSI, cine plus, BR and ZDF/arte

international version

Awards: Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Prize, Bayerischer Filmpreis 2005: Best Documentary film, German Critics Award, Deutscher Filmpreis Nomination, Prix Arte Best European documentary 2006, Deutscher Kamerapreis, Premio Ennio Flaiano: Best Camera & Best Film, German Films: Film of the year, Sao Paulo International Film Festival: Jury Prize, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik Berlin: Best Documentary

INTO GREAT SILENCE is the first film that documents daily life behind the walls of the Grande Chartreuse. Director Philip Groening spent six months in retreat in the legendary cloister, sharing the life of the Carthusian monks. A life dictated by the vow of silence and the strict rules of seclusion. The images he has captured in a world focused on spirituality give the spectator a unique opportunity of living an extraordinary experience of intense silence.

INTO GREAT SILENCE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Philip Groening Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details INTO GREAT SILENCE is the first film that documents daily life behind the walls of the Grande Chartreuse. Director Philip Groening spent six […]

POWERFUL MEN

by Fulvio Bernasconi

DigitalBeta, 16:9, color, 56', 2005

coproduction with TSI-Televisione svizzera

original version: English, Shona, French

subtitles: English, Italian

Awards: Nomination Prix Europa 2005. Festivals Selections:Solothurn Film Festival, Festival International du Film de Quartier, Dakar

Aces Youth Soccer Academy (AYSA) is the football school founded by Swiss trainer Marc Duvillard in Harare, Zimbabwe. POWERFUL MEN closely follows the teenagers in their daily life (school, training, matches and family life) depicting their dream of becoming international football stars, following the footsteps of the idols they watch on tv and whose photographs decorate walls, school books and dreams. But the documentary is not only about football and dreams, it tells us what it means to grow up in Africa nowadays.

POWERFUL MEN    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Fulvio Bernasconi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Aces Youth Soccer Academy (AYSA) is the football school founded by Swiss trainer Marc Duvillard in Harare, Zimbabwe. POWERFUL MEN closely follows the teenagers […]

LOS MUERTOS

by Lisandro Alonso

35mm, color, 78', 2004

coproduction with 4L-Lisandro Alonso, Fortuna Films, Slot Machine/arte, TSI

original version: Spanish

subtitles: French, English, Italian

Awards: Torino Film Festival: Best Film, Cinédécouvertes (Bruxelles): Golden Age Award, Viennale 2004: Standard Reader’s Prize & FIPRESCI Prize, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Czech Television Award for the Forum of Independents’ Best Film, International Yerevan Film Festival: Special Jury Prize, International Film Festival Santiago de Chile: Best Film, Festival Paysages de Cinéastes de Chatenay Malabry: Special Jury Prize & Best Photography, Lima Latin American Film Festival: Critics Award

A 54-year-old man gets out of jail in the Province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man; he possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through that takes in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.

LOS MUERTOS    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Lisandro Alonso Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details A 54-year-old man gets out of jail in the Province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter who […]

LA DIGA

by Fulvio Bernasconi

Digital Beta , 81’, 2003

coproduction with TSI and ARTE

original version: Italian other versions: French, German

subtitles: French, English

Festival selections: Festival Tout Ecran Geneva, International competition; Bruxelles Film festival, Solothurn Film Festival

When Elena and her daughter Giorgia, a lively 8 year old, decide to go to Bosco Lais to visit a house inherited from an elderly aunt, they expect to find an idyllic mountain village. To their surprise they soon discover that people avoid them, seem afraid and want them to leave immediately. Elena is not intimidated, on the contrary, she wants to find out why this village is so hostile towards them. She discovers the existence of a sister an exact look-a-like Giorgia, who died when the dam was being built. A memory that the town's people have tried to forget but that their arrival has painfully brought back.

LA DIGA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Fulvio Bernasconi Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details When Elena and her daughter Giorgia, a lively 8 year old, decide to go to Bosco Lais to visit a house inherited from an […]

LA FELICITÀ NON COSTA NIENTE

by Mimmo Calopresti

35mm, 91', color, 2003

coproduction with BiancaFilm, Europa Corp., TSI, Eurimages

original version: Italian

subtitles: German, English

Awards: Nominations David di Donatello: Francesca Neri, Best Supporting Actress, Arnaldo Catinari, Best Cinematography, Nominations Nastri d’argento: Avion Travel, Best Song; Laura Betti, Best Supporting Actress, Madrid Imagen: Best Cinematography. Festival Selections: San Francisco International Film Festival, Habana International Film Festival, Annecy Cinema Italien, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt

Sergio is a brilliant architect. His wife loves him, he has a young mistress, his friends love him, his construction firm does good business. He's well off, his life is enviable. But one day a car accident forces him to stop and think about the contradictions and hypocrisy that make up his life. All of a sudden Sergio gives everything and everybody up, slowly sliding into a solitary and totally new life. The need to find answers leads him to wander into a labyrinth between dreams and reality that unravels between his now almost empty flat and the streets of Rome “by night”. His only companion during this journey and only tie to the past is Gianni one of his workers. Gianni will be the one who, thanks to his simplicity, will lead Sergio towards the goal of this long journey: happiness.

LA FELICITÀ NON COSTA NIENTE    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Mimmo Calopresti Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Sergio is a brilliant architect. His wife loves him, he has a young mistress, his friends love him, his construction firm […]

TRISTANO E TABUCCHI

by Veronica Noseda and Marcello Togni

Digital Beta, color, 52', 2003

coproduction with TSI original version: Italian

original version: italian

subtitles: french, english

Premiere Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno 2003, Cinéastes du présent Awards Prix littéraire FIPAP Prix Unesco, Paris

TRISTANO E TABUCCHI    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Veronica Noseda and Marcello Togni Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Premiere Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno 2003, Cinéastes du présent Awards Prix littéraire FIPAP Prix Unesco, Paris Year of production  […]

SEPTEMBER WIND

by Alexander J. Seiler

35mm, 107', color, 2002

coproduction with TSI-Televisione svizzera

original version: Swiss-German, Italian

subtitles: Italian, French, German

Awards: Swiss Quality Award 2002. Festival Selections: Visions du Réel, Nyon, Competition - IDFA Amsterdam, Docs for sale

Forty years after “Siamo italiani”, the author devotes himself to several of the “foreign workers” who flocked to Switzerland from southern Italy. The young couples of that period have retired and are now back in their homeland Apulia, enjoying the fruits of their working days abroad – while yearning for the visits of their children who live in Switzerland. It is not only the second generation Italians in Switzerland who feel as if they are “half-Swiss, half-Italian”: some of the former migrants, though they have returned to Apulia, find that in their thoughts they are “still in Switzerland”. “I am constantly missing something”, says 40- year old Anna. “Distance and desire tear at the heart” – is how 65- year old Tonuccio sums up the migrant's lives.

SEPTEMBER WIND    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Alexander J. Seiler Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Forty years after “Siamo italiani”, the author devotes himself to several of the “foreign workers” who flocked to Switzerland from southern Italy. The […]

NO QUARTO DA VANDA

by Pedro Costa

35mm, 169', color, 2000

coproduction with Contracosta, Pandora, RTP, ZDF, TSI

original version: Portuguese

subtitles: Italian, French

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2002: France Culture Award, Foreign Cineaste of the Year, Locarno International Film Festival 2000: Prix du jury des jeunes, Special Mention Official Jury, Mention Jury of Cinéclubs, Cinéma du Réel Paris: Prix de la Bibliothèque, Yamagata International Documentary Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Valencia Film Festival: Best Cinematography

Life has shown me nothing but contempt. Living in ghost houses other people left empty. I’ve lived in houses not even a witch would live in! But I’ve been in houses thet were worth it....All the houses I’ve lived in where illegal. They were houses abandoned by other people, but if there had been a decent person living in them... they wouldn’t have pulled them down. That’s how it was, house after house. I’ve paid more for things I didn’t do than for those I did do.

NO QUARTO DA VANDA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Pedro Costa Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details Life has shown me nothing but contempt. Living in ghost houses other people left empty. I’ve lived in houses not even a […]

ADDIO LUGANO BELLA

by Francesca Solari

35mm, 70', color, 2000

coproduction with ZDF

versions: Italian, French (v.o. with French and Italian subtitles)

subtitles: German, French

Nomination Prix du cinéma suisse

As a result of court proceedings the female narrator/protagonist/director is forced to relive the memories of her revolutionary past and conduct. In her efforts to defend a man caught up in the wheels of “mediatised” justice, she receives support from one of the old revolutionary leaders of that period, Oreste Scalzone. He continues to practise and defend the credo of those early days, obsessed by the need to keep their meanings free from betrayal and criticism. Reflecting on the past, the narrator goes back to the selfless way her father accepted her revolutionary stance and showed understanding, inspite of his suffering. Shortly before his unexpected death she suceeds in expressing her gratitude. In the mean time the idea of a film began to take shape. The bond with Giorgio Bellini, the man caught up in the court proceedings, has been strengthened by the desire to capture it on film. Memory can be used as a path to free the mind from the dead weight of old resentments, through the power of love…

ADDIO LUGANO BELLA    Details  Casting  Photos Release Date  — Directed by  by Francesca Solari Starring  — Writer  — Composer  — Genres  — Country  — Rating  Not rated yet! Synopsis and Details As a result of court proceedings the female narrator/protagonist/director is forced to relive the memories of her revolutionary past and conduct. In her […]