Films

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.

Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub / Switzerland / 2024 / World Premiere

God is a Woman

The Search for a lost film from the 70s takes a young man from one of South America's largest indigenous communities on an existential journey in a post-colonial film about the right to one's own image.

Andres Peyrot / France, Switzerland & Panama / 2023

Immortals

A feminist who sneaks out of the house dressed as a man and a filmmaker who uses his camera as a weapon. Milo and Khalili are two young Iraqis who risk their lives for freedom and the future in an unusual and cinematic film about life in Baghdad.

Maja Tschumi / Switzerland & Iraq / 2024 / World Premiere

Polish Prayers

A young, ultra-conservative man on the black-clad Catholic right suddenly discovers the colours of the rainbow and starts sawing at the ideological branch he was so securely perched on.

Hanka Nobis / Switzerland & Poland / 2022

Reas

A creative queer musical where the former inmates of a women's prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.

Lola Arias / Argentina, Germany & Switzerland / 2024

Rehab (From Rehab)

How can a building become part of the treatment in physical and mental rehabilitation? A film about architecture, bodies and universal design that could revolutionise the way we shape our shared spaces.

Louise Lemoine & Ila Bêka / France & Switzerland / 2023

Stray Bodies

Involuntary body related travelling is on the rise in Europe, with women crossing EU borders to reclaim the right to their own bodies. Abortion and artificial insemination are just two items on the list in a film that maps the continent.

Elina Psykou / Greece, Switzerland, Italy & Bulgaria / 2024 / International Premiere

There was Nothing Here Before

A Swiss-Palestinian director visits his childhood friend who has moved to an Israeli colony, to make a film about their relationship that transcends borders and political differences.

Yvann Yagchi / Switzerland / 2024

While the Green Grass Grows

A beautiful and enriching experience from one of the most original voices in documentary filmmaking, who has made his most personal film to date without lowering the philosophical altitude.

Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2023