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After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Sep 2016
In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
Dec 2017
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
Jan 2016
In Geneva’s affluent ex-pat society, young intern Nollaig's impulsive theft — and bodily absorption — of her host family’s diamonds detonates a deeply buried fracture line within their glittering world.
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A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
Jan 2015
An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take the step towards total independence, and start producing their own electricity. The arrival of Samuel, who comes to install a wind turbine, deeply troubles Pauline, upsetting their relationship and their values.
Sep 2018
An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.
Jan 2023
Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s liberation movement in the 70’s. Her family’s resistance to talk about this time convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious woman, named Geneviève.
Nov 2009
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
Aug 2013
Created in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this short essay centres on a monologue delivered by a reincarnation of the philosopher in twenty-first century Thailand.
Aug 2012
Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.
Jan 2012
Mar 2015
Dec 2010
In northern France, Gabin, the youngest child of the Jourdel family, is destined to take over his father’s butcher shop. Torn between family loyalty and a desire to break free, he has other dreams: training a show cow, becoming a dog breeder, and saving his mother’s farm from bankruptcy. Gabin follows the life of this young boy from age 8 to 18.
Nov 2026
Henry, dedicated citizen of a pitiless dictatorship, has always worked intensely at the Denunciation Ministry. But suddenly, the regime collapses; the cold, technocratic and paranoid world becoming at once an idyllic and caricatured countryside. Henry, panicked without the rules he was addicted to, seems to be the only one to regret the old regime. As if it was going to come back, he continues to follow the rules and clings to his useless work...
Feb 2013
Jan 2007
Through paintings that interact on the principle of Russian dolls, we are drawn along the swirling path of the thoughts of a pilgrim, a solitary walker.
Morvan, 1842: forced to pass themselves off as men in order to reach Paris, two sisters embark on an eventful raft journey among the log drivers.
Aug 2025