Haute école d'art et de design – Genève (HEAD – Genève)

To escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo, Hana decides to resort to the services of Emir, an illegal smuggler in Serbia that will drive her to Hungary. On the way, complications arise as Emir's unscrupulous associates try to take advantage of Hana's vulnerability. In the midst of the frozen winter, Hana's courage and determination and Emir's principles and beliefs will be put to the test.

Portrait of a Portuguese bar whose boundary is a road in a little village. Through a succession of everyday scenes, a community appears, which is unified by the fact that there they feel “at home”. Its protagonists eat, drink, discuss, watch tv... they all spend time there, waiting for something.

Lucien, a 28-year-old cabaret musician, suffers from pathological shyness. Tonight, instead of doing his standard pianist's routine, he wants to get up on the stage and sing his lyrics for the first time in front of an audience. Waiting in the wings, he calms his stage fright with alcohol and cigarettes. He wants to make it through this hell, which will also be his liberation.

The prisoner Klara Wendel was supposed to be deported from west to east Switzerland. But strange incidents occur during her transport, and all her companions disappear. Klara is found wearing a nun’s habit. To get to the heart of the matter, a tribunal is hastily set up in a barn. The judges want to find out how Klara has managed to escape and why she’s dressed as a nun. On trial by men, Klara somehow manages to take over and become the director of both the trial and the film.

In times of body positive movements this film pays tribute to the mainstream representation of the male body which the director has a love-hate relationship with. Through a series of gleaned images from the internet and elsewhere (“net found footage”), our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards is put into question.

Within this community, still subject to hostile demonstrations, SUPREME highlights gestures of tenderness, desire for love and reconciliation through three characters: endearing, beautiful, extroverted and fragile all at once.

Ibrahim is a concierge at an art school in Switzerland. One day, a student who is looking for Ethiopian songs for a project asks for his help. Her insistence will force Ibrahim to reconnect with his past and his origins.

Jean & Michel go on a journey in the Clos du Doubs in search of a rare bird. During their wanderings, the couple crosses seasons at full speed, a certain amount of rivers and above all, ups and downs.

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.

Baghdad, early 1990s, in a reality where humans have been replaced by cyborgs, a young couple and their newborn try to flee their country where war has just broken out.

Andreas will soon be twenty. It’s a special moment in which the threads of his life become inextricably entwined into a knot. Entering the adult world and slipping back towards childhood. Studying, football matches with mates, and family life centred around his father’s workshop. A new relationship with a boy his own age and a long-time “friend” who works for his father becomes too much for him. A moment when Andreas has to choose, a knot he tries to unravel, overcome or flee.

Laetitia is not happy! For the sake of her daughter, whose birthday it is, she straps on her skis for the first time. A few falls later, all she dreams about is giving her rival, who has snatched away her husband and talented skier, a big slap in the face. Her best friend has nothing against it, quite the opposite!

Tatum, a young man in his forties suffering from a deep depression, is hired as a museum guard. Tasked with looking after a sculpture that exerts a mysterious fascination on the public, he gradually falls under its spell himself. He protects it as if his very existence depended on it, at the risk of losing touch with reality.

Gabriel, a young Georgian man, has a love relationship with a transgender woman Amaia, who lives in the Tbilisi suburbs. Embedded in the reality of Georgia, their relationship is threatened. They are given over to the sheer strength of their feelings and are fragile in a violently hostile environment. A narrative of exemplary discreetness.

A man is eating McDonald's burger on a beach populated by penguins and sea lions. Suddenly a sea lion begins raping a penguin. The man quickly finishes his cheeseburger before intervening.

While the vultures squabble over food, life carries on as usual for a small community in the Spanish mountains. The elderly teach the young to hunt. Those still too young, (im)patiently await their turn. A girl sets out with her donkey. A farewell and a new beginning.

To run away from a monotonous everyday life, 63-year-old Daniel found an activity which gives him a way to exist.

On the island of Reunion, Lunet and his grandfather Dadabé set on a quest to turn a hen into a dodo bird, whose magic feathers might save the boy’s seriously ill mother.

Exploring a sense of desperation and urgency, the film proposes a journey through the extreme, raising questions about madness and redemption.

Calvin crosses the city with a conquering step. He sells honey from the Middle East, natural Viagra from Malaysia and passes his sales knowledge to younger people. His skin-deep voluntarism is at the service of a future perspective that his family would not have wished for him.