The promotion agency for Swiss filmmaking furthers the visibility and positive awareness at home and abroad.
Initiated approximately forty years ago by the film industry, SWISS FILMS offers film directors and producers promotional services and facilitates international distribution of their film productions. The foundation works together with its national and international network and organizes retrospectives and film programmes all over the world.
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Looking For Sunshine
Biography, Documentary
2018
1h.35min
16+
A year in Lara Gut’s universe, from the victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup title in 2016 to the comeback after an injury at the peak of her career.
African Mirror
Documentary
2019
1h.26min
12
The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa
Hotel Belgrad
Shorts
1998
14min
16+
A couple makes love in a hotel. She lives in Switzerland, he lives in Belgrad. What’s been destroyed by war will be reborn in this hotel room.
Before Summer Ends
Independent, Comedy
2017
1h.21min
12
After five years of studying, Arash is fed up with France. His friends persuade him to join them on one last trip, hoping to change his mind.
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Classics
2001
1h.30min
12
Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.
What You Don't Know About Me
Drama
2019
1h.56min
16+
How well can you know your partner? Patricia and Ikendu have a happy relationship until Ikendu's surprise arrest shatters it.
I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth
Drama
2017
1h.0min
16+
After a night in jail, April returns to the basement of the luxury hotel where she, along with other women, works as a sex worker.
O Fim do Mundo
Crime, Drama
2019
1h.44min
16+
After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold.
Our Lucky Hours
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.17min
16+
During World War 2, 45,000 psychiatric patients died in French hospitals. Only one facility opposed the carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban.
Yugodivas
Documentary, Independent
2000
58min
16+
An actress, a painter and 3 classically trained musicians came to New York from Belgrade before the Balkan War to pursue their art and their dream.
Animal Heart
Drama
2009
1h.30min
16+
A thuggish farmer who loves his animals more than his sick wife threatens to lose everything through his behavior.
Cure - The Life of Another
Drama, Thriller
2014
1h.23min
16+
After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home.
Lenz
Drama, Independent
2006
1h.36min
6
An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.
I Was a Swiss Banker
Romance
2007
1h.15min
16+
A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.
Ghetto
Classics
1997
1h.56min
12
A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.
Winna - Path of the Souls
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.23min
12 FSK
Legend tellers and legend collectors preserve the traditional knowledge of myths and traditions in Valais.
My Brother, My Love
Drama, Love & Sex
2018
1h.54min
16+
Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.
Happy Too
Documentary
2002
1h.1min
16+
A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.
Day Is Done
Documentary
2011
1h.51min
16+
A 35mm camera films from a window, with messages from the answering machine in the background. Slowly an imaginary biography unfolds.
Fraulein
Drama
2006
1h.21min
6 FSK
An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.
Well Done
Classics
1994
1h.13min
16+
The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.
Wrinkles - Confronting The Process Of Aging
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.28min
16+
The five protagonists, all 70+, take the audience along on their journey through life and describe what has shaped their lives and what they regret.
Europe – She Loves
Documentary, Love & Sex
2016
1h.40min
16+
Crises, grievances, fear of the future and hope: eight young people search for their place in society in various European countries.
Cahier Africain
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.59min
0 FSK
A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.
Winter Nomads
Documentary
2012
1h.26min
0 FSK
Two shepherds and 800 sheep take on an extraordinary adventure full of challenges, in intimate contact with nature and the elements.
Hotel Yugoslavia
Documentary, Independent
2017
1h.18min
16+
A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija.
Belgrade's cityscape is still haunted by the Hotel like a mirror held up to a Serbia ...
Those Who Are Fine
Drama
2017
1h.11min
16+
Alice works in a call center on the outskirts of Zurich. Inspired by her job, she calls lonely grandmothers and pretends to be a granddaughter in need ...
Pause
Comedy, Romance
2014
1h.22min
0 FSK
One winter evening, at an empty gas station, young country musician Sami meets beautiful Julia, who has run out of gas.
Sami, who’s been living alone ...
Of the Voice
Documentary, Independent
2018
1h.22min
0 FSK
The Sound of the Voice tells the story of four people who are passionate about exploring the limits of the human voice in new ways.
Offshore - Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy
Documentary, Independent
2016
1h.42min
16+
Rudolf Elmer has had a remarkable career at a Swiss private bank until he became a whistleblower of the offshore banking business.
Giovanni Segantini - Magic of Light
Documentary
2015
1h.22min
0 FSK
Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains.
Calabria
Documentary
2016
1h.57min
16+
A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.
Stop-Over
Documentary
2013
1h.40min
16+
An abandoned house in Athens has become a temporary home for refugees hoping to continue their journey.
A Decent Man
Crime, Drama
2015
1h.34min
12 FSK
Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning.
In an effort to repair his own ...
Seven Dumpsters And A Corpse
Biography, Documentary
2007
1h.20min
12 FSK
On his 40th birthday, director Thomas Haemmerli learns of the death of his mother. The next shock is seeing his mother's filthy and chaotic apartment.
On ...
Analysis Paralysis
Shorts
2016
9min
16+
A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds.
Working On It
Music, Dance, Theater, Queer
2008
50min
16+
Explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed.
Impostor
Shorts
2014
7min
16+
A stag pretends to be a human; with remarkable consequences.
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
1h.22min
16+
Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?
Black Panther – The Story of Emilie and Jacob
Independent, Love & Sex
2013
1h.19min
12 FSK
Siblings Emilie and Jacob cannot help feeling a deep love for each other. After being apart for many years, they meet in the mountains.
We Came To Help
Documentary, Independent
2013
1h.27min
16+
Can good cause evil? This documentary investigates the effect of Swiss development assistance in Rwanda before the genocide against the Tutsi.
Lucky Devils
Music, Dance, Theater, Documentary
2013
1h.35min
16+
A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.
Balkan Melody
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2012
1h.32min
0 FSK
A portrait of the music collector couple Marcel and Catherine Cellier, who already documented the music of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Toumast – Guitars And Kalashnikovs
Documentary, Independent
2010
1h.26min
16+
Moussa has swapped his Kalashnikov for a guitar. The former freedom fighter is now a protest singer.
The Beast Within
Documentary, Independent
2008
1h.12min
16+
Dog fights and other blood sports are banned in most countries, but they still are practiced widely in alleyways and backyards around the world.
Echoes of Home
Independent, Music, Dance, Theater
2007
1h.21min
16+
Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.
My Father, the Revolution and Me
Biography, Documentary
2013
1h.22min
12
A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.
La Reina del Condon
Biography, Love & Sex
2007
1h.16min
18
Monika Krause, a German student who fell in love with a Cuban captain became the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.
The End of Time
Documentary, Independent
2012
1h.49min
0 FSK
Filming the unfilmable: From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii.
Working ...
David Wants to Fly
Biography, Documentary
2010
1h.36min
0 FSK
David Sievekind, young filmmaker, is in search of inspiration. He meets David Lynch, who assures him that the meditation TM is the key to success. But, ...
Sister
Crime, Drama
2012
1h.33min
6 FSK
Simon lives with his older sister in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. He's providing for both of them by stealing expensive ski equipment.
With ...
Enemies In Love
Biography, Independent
2012
1h.56min
16 FSK
Swiss feminist Iris Meyer and conservative Peter von Roten were unlikely mates who nonetheless had a passionate relationship. This is their story.
ENEMIES ...
Grimm’s Cuckoo
Shorts
2012
15min
16+
This short film dares a slightly different view of life in a psychiatric clinic. Screened at Cannes Short Film Corner and Interfilm Berlin.
MARE NOSTRUM - A Concert. A Journey.
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2015
57min
16+
Join the fantastical musical journey of a student group preparing for a concert on a cruise ship.
Lilly - If you don't have one, you need one!
Drama
2005
32min
16+
Lilly is on the hunt for new customers. But when she meets Bob, even she is at her wit's end.
Overbooked
Comedy, Romance
2012
1h.40min
16+
In this black comedy a woman is stranded on a barren island and has to come to terms with the gnawing lighthouse keeper.
Hugo Koblet - The Charming Cyclist
Documentary, Independent
2014
1h.37min
16+
The rise and fall of Swiss cycling legend Hugo Koblet still fascinates today - with a comb tucked in his jersey, groupies, vanilla ice cream.
Last Round
Drama
2012
21min
16+
"Dying. What's so brave about it? It's a feat pulled off by everyone".
Kurt and the Chairlift
Documentary, Independent
2012
20min
16+
Ten years ago, Kurt saved an outdated chairlift from demolition. Since then, he has been operating it himself - stubbornly and in any weather.
Best Buddies
Drama, Queer
2015
31min
16+
The friendship of two boys is at stake when one falls in love with the other's sister.
Democracy Is On!
Documentary, Independent
2015
1h.22min
6
On the right-wing fringes of the political landscape, ever-louder anti-European, anti-Islamic and nationalist voices can be heard.
You & Me
Shorts
2012
21min
16+
Award winning short about two girls navigating their teen years with difficult parents.
On The Edge
Romance, Drama
2013
1h.31min
16+
Two men, who loved the same woman, meet in the mountains and then starts a inscrutable game.
Someone Beside You
Documentary, Independent
2006
1h.38min
16+
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a doc road movie that takes him to Europe and the U.S.
Little Girl Blue
Drama, Love & Sex
2014
1h.21min
16+
Sandra is new in town and does not fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa. Then she falls in love with Mike, who also caught Nadja's attention.
Jan - Challenge at the Net
Documentary, Independent
2013
1h.34min
16+
A portrait of a teen tennis pro in the making - a sports documentary as dramatic as fiction films such as “Jerry Maguire”.
Opération Libertad
Drama, Thriller
2012
1h.30min
16+
To atone for the injustice of colonialism, a revolutionary group attacks a Swiss bank.
Snow White (Samir)
Drama, Love & Sex
2005
1h.53min
16+
The Partyqueen Nico is a luxury girl from a wealthy home. At a party she falls in love with Paco, who is her complete opposite.
Honey and Ashes
Classics
1996
1h.16min
16+
Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.