Heidi Züger

1989, le quartier américain du Kreuzberg, à Berlin-Ouest. Des étudiants et des artistes y vivent comme des bohémiens, fréquentant les bars du coin. Parmi eux, Frank Lehmann, surnommé "Herr Lehmann" par ses amis, bientôt trente ans : patron de bar, il passe son temps avec Karl, son fidèle acolyte, sculpteur contemporain. Il tombe amoureux d'une cuisinière, Katrin. Mais pour lui, rien n'est simple. Il ne préfère pas dire à se sparents qu'il ne fait rien de ses journées. Le jour de son anniversaire arrive et un événement va changer sa vie. Nous sommes le 9 novembre 1989...

Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets. They meet in the realm of the dead and together they visit familiar places and their loved ones. By debating their past with each other, they become close and fall in love. Because of their feelings they get the chance to return to life for twelve hours in order to prove the depth love they share.

After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.

Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep in the forest they finally find a release for their aggression by joining a Nazi gang - only to discover the boundaries where harmless play turns into murder.

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.