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- In Lausanne, a group of twenty-something women and queer persons start directing ethical and dissident pornographic films: the OIL Productions collective is born. Committed to an artistic and political approach, they create adult films aiming to positively represent sexualities and bodies in all their diversity. Ardente·x·s follows the adventure of the collective, behind the scenes of the productions, presentations to the media and events as well as more intimate moments in which they invite us to discover their everyday lives. With this bold first feature-length film, Patrick Muroni - a Swiss filmmaker trained at ECAL - tells the story of their fight for another vision of desire and sexuality. His camera follows the adventure of these new pornographers who joyfully and irreverently travel the streets of Switzerland to loudly and clearly claim other ways of conveying pleasure. The emergence of gender-neutral sexual liberation is on the way.
- The location of the sanctuary of Artemis at Amarynthos has long remained one of Greece's great archaeological enigmas. This vast "Artemision" is mentioned in several ancient texts. Yet, despite numerous expeditions from the late 19th century onwards, the sanctuary and its temple could not be found. In the 1960s, a young Swiss archaeologist, Denis Knoepfler, set out in search of it. His investigations soon led him into the hinterland of the island of Evia. But it wasn't until 2017 that a team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists formally identified the sanctuary of Artemis. This documentary retraces a collective epic spanning more than a century, rich in twists and turns, and details the crucial stages of a long-term investigation that has fascinated several generations of archaeologists.
- Robinson Crusoe is a small island hundreds of kilometres away from the Chilean coast where in 1704 the Scottish sailor Alexandre Selkirk lived the incredible experience that inspired Daniel Defoe's same name novel. In 1877 the island becomes the property of a young Swiss aristocrat, Alfred von Rodt, a confirmed optimist, a tireless explorer and an indisputable rebel who multiplied projects in hopes of developing the resources of his piece of rock. Islander dives us into nowadays' Robinson Crusoe's reality. Its inhabitants are not Chilean, nor Swiss, but they are strongly attached to their identity and reject everything coming from the 'outside' - animals, plants and people. This is a film about an utopia of a dream-like life based on the 'purity' of its inhabitants and environment. It is a strong and cinematic metaphor of nowadays societies' self-centredness based on fear.
- The tender and offbeat gaze of a young woman in her thirties on the men of her generation.
- They're single, widowed or divorced ; they've had children, husbands, a job. They have a life behind them, but also one to come - "Ladies" reveals the intimate lives of five women in their sixties who are waging a discreet daily battle against loneliness. It's true that men often prefer younger women, it's true that one feels invisible in a youth-oriented society, but they are not washed up, far from it. One fills her time with activities, another is recovering from the loss of her husband, others find sustenance in nature - And love? They still believe in it, of course. It's never too late to dream.
- Ambassade questions the role of diplomatic relations and territorial representation. Through the prism of the American hostage crisis in Iran between 1979 and 1981, this film focuses on Switzerland's role as an intermediary in resolving this international conflict. Ambassade offers insights into the importance of the human being at the heart of major diplomatic mechanisms.
- The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries in the world, Switzerland.
- A 9 months immersion in the administrative detention center of Geneva, one of the 28 deportation centers in Switzerland.
- A family goes to Geneva airport to collect something that will change their lives forever.
- During the course of our lives, all of us have moments that define us and which we remember fondly. Each film accompanies someone for a day as they go through a key moment in their lives.
- If Switzerland is sometimes perceived as heaven on earth, the question that follows is: do its inhabitants believe in heaven? Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. So, what is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.
- The Boy Was Named Apache (1995).
- A brief history of women in politics, in 20th and 21st century Switzerland. The often tortuous route travelled by Swiss women in order to escape the kitchen sometimes obscures other battles won during their march towards equality: social security cover for pregnancy, marriage law, elective abortion, equal pay..
- Coming from two completely opposite worlds, these two brilliant intellectuals never met: Rudolf Roessler was German and a fervent Christian, Sandor Rado a Hungarian Jew and an early communist. The unlikely collaboration of their respective networks in the heart of neutral Switzerland was decisive in the outcome of the war in the East and in the fall of Nazism. The Sandor Rado - Rudolf Roessler mystery traces a key episode of the Second World War and bears the seeds of the Cold War. Their journeys through World War II made them the conflict's most important and enigmatic spies. 80 years after it remains a historical enigma.
- At dawn, a cannon rips through the plain. The horses tread the beaten ground at a gallop. Eva, 21, wishes to join the hunters of the imperial guard, a regiment of historical reconstruction Napoleonic reserved for men. In search of romance, she conceals her identity to be able to set foot in the stirrup, defying a 200-year-old ban. In this world of powder and smoke, Eva discovers herself as she has always dreamed of: a handsome soldier alongside of a beautiful princess.
- A winter spent in the heart of an emergency shelter where every night watchmen have the difficult task of "sorting the poor" due to lack of space.
- Randy, a young teenager, listens to his coach's advice before his first boxing match.
- In the early 1960s Fernando and Florinda Melgar, originally from Ronda in Andalusia, chose to emigrate to Switzerland, where they were attracted by the economic miracle there. But settling down in a country with a climate and customs so different from theirs was in no way obvious. Over two decades later, they retired in their hometown. How exactly had their stay in Switzerland gone? How had they adapted? How had their employers - and more broadly speaking - the Swiss citizens treated them? These are the questions they are asked by Fernand Melgar, their filmmaker son, who has remained in Switzerland. His parents answer him in front of his camera with great sensitivity, honesty and intelligence.
- May 68 did not emerge ex nihilo, all its components preexisted. A generation, the one who was twenty years old in the mid-sixties, was no longer satisfied with a hopelessly immutable state of affairs and was anxious to see long-awaited expectations come true. The pressure was gradually rising and the boiler exploded. Including in Switzerland.
- Pascal, 35 years old an family father, has chosen to dress as a woman in public. A demolition worker by day, he dreams of doing cabaret and rehearses his future drag show in the evenings under his wife's direction.
- In 2014, the Pentagon awarded P.O.W. medals to 143 WWII veterans, who were held in the infamous Wauwilermoos punishment camp in Switzerland. The story of these airmen and their prison unveils one of the darkest and less known facts of Switzerland's behavior during World War II.
- A film that goes behind the scenes of two court cases involving activists in the fight against climate change. An intimate, powerful, sometimes funny and moving journey that accompanies the protagonists in the offices of lawyers and the lobbies of the courts. A journey strewn with countless pitfalls, tensions, hopes, bitter disappointments and fleeting triumphs.
- An unusual football match between teenagers from a working-class neighborhood in the north of Lausanne and the municipal police team. An opportunity for the police to show themselves in a new light and for young people to express themselves on a ground they master, where everyone submits to the same rules, those of the game.
- Every year thousands of conflicts are dealt with via a special jurisdiction process, the Tribunal des Prud'hommes, established in the 19th century to resolve management and labor disputes. It delivers a service that is swift, free, and accessible, with straightforward, primarily oral procedures. This court is a revealing social barometer, full of stories, dramas great and small. "Les Prud'hommes" crystallizes tensions, upsets, suffering and rebellions that are part of a rapidly changing, ever more brutal and complex world of work. For the first time in Switzerland, a camera crew has been allowed into the public galleries to film the Tribunal at work in Lausanne. The result is a caustic look at a very particular form of theatre, a play of words and emotions, bosses versus workers, accompanied, or not, by a lawyer or union representative. Amusing and moving by turn, the film takes us into the heart of the human comedy, that of contemporary society.