Manfred Liechti

Alors qu'elle a perdu toute joie de vivre suite à la mort de son mari, l'octogénaire Martha se laisse convaincre par son amie Lisi de réaliser le rêve de cette dernière: ouvrir un magasin de lingerie fine. Hélas, les représentants de l'église et les politiciens de ce village de l'Emmenthal ne l'entendent pas de la même oreille. Charmante comédie helvétique mélangeant savamment humour et mélancolie. L'un des plus gros succès de l'histoire du cinéma suisse.

Un cadavre découvert dans la zone frontalière entre la Suisse et la France contraint un commissaire bâlois à enquêter avec son homologue alsacien. On a trouvé un cadavre dans la cabane d'un jardin ouvrier de Bâle. Le défunt a été sauvagement assassiné : tué par balle, il a ensuite été suspendu à la poutre du cabanon par un crochet de boucher. Confiée au commissaire Hunkeler de Bâle, l'affaire se complique d'emblée : si la plupart des propriétaires des parcelles habitent en effet à Bâle, le terrain où le meurtre a été commis est rattaché à la France. Hunkeler va donc devoir collaborer avec un collègue français. Très vite, les soupçons se portent sur un certain Cattaneo, qui jardine aussi dans le secteur. Hunkeler découvre pourtant un détail qui l'intrigue : la victime, Livius, qui s'appelait autrefois Schmidt, semble avoir un passé trouble lié à la Seconde Guerre mondiale...

Four Swiss pensioners spend their retirement in Bali for economic reasons. In their luggage they carry memories and unresolved conflicts that have little to do with their new surroundings. And when one of them runs out of money even in cheap exile and the other, who draws a fat pension, faces death, they decide on a bold plan: to exchange their lives.

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 ...

After the death of his mother, Peter K. is threatened with eviction from her home where he cared for her. He struggles to defend his refuge from his estranged sister, the city government, and finally, armed po- lice. His conspiracy theories and writings spiral into a violent reality, making him a renegade celebrity. His growing fear and solitude bring on childhood nightmares, while his court battle reveals a dark family past.

“Luxury, luxury, luxury… and not to be so alone.” Vanessa wants to spend her holiday at a comfortable resort. However, due to a booking error at the travel agents, Vanessa ends up on a barren desert island. The next ship doesn’t arrive for another week, so until then she has to cope with oddball lighthouse keeper Stanislav, and the highly unconventional and nonchalant Sebastian, who also has a right to the only shabby guest room. There’s no escape from this island – and the three gradually get to know each other over schnapps and pie. When a further guest arrives in the form of dubious businessman Felix and a body turns up in Stanislav’s cellar, the insular resort becomes the backdrop for a grotesque fight for life. In his debut feature, Matthias J. Michel cleverly repels various genre and character clichés to create an exceptional black comedy.

The fight between an elderly man and a mosquito. How far a decent citizen in our civilization is willing to go to kill a small insect.

Exhausted from decades of living, an elderly man sets foot aboard a streetcar for a journey that will prove to be very unusual. He does not understand where he is. He does not understand how he has come to this place. But music surrounds him and melodies lead the way.

Rolf, a hemiplegic, spends his days dozing on a sofa bed in his dusty apartment. On TV, he learns of a deadly pandemic sweeping around the globe. While the world around him falls apart, he bears witness to it on his screen with relish. When his nurse fails to visit him, Rolf realizes that his survival is anything but certain.

In the far future, a professor of quantum physics is about to undergo surgery to remove his brain tumor, and is offered a backup of his brain for safety reasons.

Katrina dreamed of having children with Louis first, then married his best friend Ron. Louis's head is transplanted onto Ron's body after the two are involved in a serious car accident. What will become of Katrina's dream now?

It was meant to be just a light-hearted adventure: After long years behind walls, Spooky and Linda escape from their psychiatric institution to breathe some fresh air in the outside world. Spooky wants to invite Linda for lunch in the restaurant he often went to as a child. But life is definitively more complicated outside the walls. And everything gets even more confusing with Spooky’s friend Carl, who unexpectedly joins the company. A small adventure becomes quite a big challenge. In an unknown world they are confronted to questions they are not used to face. They would need trust in themselves and in their companion. How can they find their way?

Printemps 1873. Des gens du monde entier affluent vers la petite commune de Göschenen dans le canton d’Uri pour travailler sur le plus grand et le plus spectaculaire chantier des temps moderne: le tunnel du Saint-Gothard. Outre le destin de trois jeunes gens pris dans la frénésie propre à cette époque de la construction, Gotthard raconte l’histoire de l’immense chantier, qui sut comme aucun autre événement rapprocher les jeunes Etats européens.