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A young Swiss wrestling champion is dragged by his brother into a series of clandestine fights to raise money to save the family farm.

Lina, an ambitious young woman, leaves her husband and son in China to go to Paris to build a brighter future for them. But once there nothing happens as planned and she locks herself into a world of lies so as not to give up on her dream.

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves?

A young hopeful teenager is waiting for his unknown and fantasized father to come out of prison. His family dream life is seriously undermined by an exhausted mother and a man who, after so many years in jail, has become unable to be a responsible father.

Jack 19, Lisa 17, and Mathis 10, become suddenly orphans. Each of them reacts in his own way to the family catastrophe.

The Kuna indigenous people of the Guna Yala islands of Panama intend to claim a 1975 documentary that portrayed their community, but was not ever shown to them.

Julie is a young woman who walks dogs in Paris in her spare time. While walking, she takes shelter in a cafe to escape a rainstorm. In the cafe, she finds a forgotten folder with a math test and a disturbing love letter written by a high school girl to her teacher. Julie frantically embarks on an investigation. She has little time to prevent the worst, because the teenager seems prepared for anything.

Alex tries to unravel the mystery of his brother's death while taking on a family secret.

The life and thoughts of an Enlightenment philosopher who suffered from chronic restlessness. A detailed biography which places special emphasis on his most influential texts and commemorates his tercentenary birthday. Using "Les confessions" as the leitmotif, the film alternates between readings by actor Roger Jendly, encounters with international experts and musings on Rousseau's travel destinations. Its manner does not conform to today's tempo, but rather seems to follow the rhythm of a thought as it unfolds, resulting in an inevitably dense portrait on the extraordinary life of one of the leading French philosophers of the Enlightenment.

In a remote region of rural Switzerland, a farmer and his wife eke out a harsh existence, appearing to live in a century far removed from our own. Paul is incapable of showing any kindness towards his wife Rosine, and is unconcerned when she starts to suffer from severe stomach pains. He treats her worse than his animals, a slave willing to attend to his every need and every command. One day, he hires a Spanish migrant worker, Eusebio, to take on the more demanding jobs on his farm. He treats his new farmhand no better than his wife and becomes suspicious when Rosine begins showing him some kindness. Convinced that his wife has started an affair with Eusebio, Paul beats her in a wild frenzy. A short while later, he sees her being flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital. Feeling betrayed, he turns his anger towards Eusebio but has a change of heart when he discovers that his worker has marital problems of his own.

a magnificent love story with great poetic scenes takes place in a mining town in Chile's Atacama Desert in the nineteen twenties. The film is set on a background of trade union conflicts and bloody repression. Epic and romantic.

More focused on the act committed than on the needs of those involved, penal justice has certain limitations. The film explores the difficult connection between victims trying to rebuild their lives and perpetrators disposed to taking responsibility. Restorative justice encourages the parties to manage their conflicts themselves, helping them to free themselves from their status. An intimate, emotional film in which the barriers between reality and fiction fade away.

55 students from the choir of St Michel's College in Fribourg Switzerland fly to Palestine to give a series of concerts there. They discover the region and conditions under the Israeli occupation.

Alex, a young man of Chinese descent, is reluctant to celebrate the moon festival with his family, and would rather spend the evening with his French girlfriend. His heart is torn, however, when he rekindles his friendship with a childhood friend.

Fribourg attracts around fifty young people from the most diverse backgrounds. Following their concert rehearsals for a year, we discover a world on its own: a world in which singing means a physical experience, the opportunity to forge close friendships, and oneness with the music. Far from the culture of the masses and virtual social networks, these young people share a passion for choral singing, in a tradition that is evolving in spite of itself.

The century-old Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva is not only in a state of disrepair, but it lacks space for its collections. A world-renowned architect, a young judge, a museum director and a patron of the arts joined forces to give the city the museum it deserves. But the renovation project conceived by architect Jean Nouvel was far from gaining unanimous approval. After sixteen years of negotiations, opposition remains fierce. Today, things are at a standstill.

Digging family archives amassed by Leah 95 years, his daughter Anne decides bring to the screen the story of four generations haunted by a secret. ever their grandmother, single mother and domestic ambitious who married an old high Society Sion, consented to reveal the name of his father to his son, relegated to the 'Plebs' in adolescence. Illegitimate recounts this amazing audacity and biting saga from another age.

Essay on the epic story of an ordinary man, a filmmaker, born in the beginning of the Second World War. From 1942 to 2016, his personal story and the world history, the history of his films, of cinema and the images that inspired him. Life and creation entangled, untangled, intertwined, jostled together. From his childhood to his first steps as an artist. From the distant war to the war against everyone, from the dreamed revolution to the consumer society that ruins your dreams like Coca Cola dissolves your bones.

It all starts with an accident. A badly managed meeting between a car and a motorbike. A meeting, in fact, of several destinies. Those of a couple in meltdown, a disillusioned young man, a young girl in search of enchantment, and a crotchety old man. In the end, the accident turns out to be the accident of life, which you either give up, or you don't.

Ali, a Swiss adolescent originally from Morocco, returns from a holiday in Morocco full of nostalgia and looks for a way to return.

At Le Marronnier, a swiss retirement home, the artist François Burland creates a giant engraving. With young migrants, among the residents. During the summer, they meet, tell each other, reveal each other. Alone together.

The criminal justice system, the one that punishes, shows its limits when it focuses on the act committed rather than on the needs of those concerned. The film explores the difficult reconciliation between victims seeking to rebuild their lives and offenders ready to face their responsibilities. Focus on restorative justice.