National Competition

45,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals between 1939 and 1945. A single site escaped this carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban, an isolated village in Lozère. What happened there for it to...

National Competition

Listening, observing, touching, tasting. Moving through a space that is still pristine, undomesticated, that of the state of nature. He is there to reconnect with that state, she is doing a course on...

National Competition

Nathalie cannot cope with  her son Gobran, who is having difficulties with the police and at school. Together, they go to see Naïma Serroukh, instigator and facilitator of the project called...

Burning Lights International

“Crazy people are the unlucky explorers of the invisible”. This is precisely what Nathan Hofstetter, diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, has undertaken to make visible. By filming himself during...

National Competition

Who said that old age has to be boring? Golden Age opens the doors to the Palace, a retirement home of the kind that you have never seen before, in Miami. Gildings, ostentatious chandeliers,...

International Medium Length & Short Film Competition

Dennis and his filmmaker friend decide to join his parents in Tuscany where they are spending the summer holiday. Dennis is not in the best of moods. His past and his choices seem to loom over him, to...

National Competition

The workers of a self-managed tea factory decide to go against the grain and play by their own rules. The problem is, how can you plan, work and survive in a world driven by ruthless competition? One...

International Feature Film Competition

Almost 50 years ago, women and men all over the word dreamed of changing the world. What is left today of the expectations and the hopes of the people that flooded the streets? Not much,...

National Competition

A young woman sorts her possessions, ready to leave the family home and to start her own, via the essential step of marriage. Julia Bünter settled in Cairo in 2015 to accompany, with her camera, three...

National Competition

What is happening in Nuria's head? While doctors carefully examine her brain, thoroughly scrutinised by an MRI, Anna Hungerbühler endeavours to show us the day-to-day of her intriguing...

National Competition

We enter the film, like we access Gorgona, by the sea. A rock bristling with greenery, surrounded by the dark blue waves of the Mediterranean. On this small island between Tuscany and Corsica, there...

Burning Lights International

Madame is Caroline, the grandmother of Stéphane Riethauser. An old lady who, from the very first images, we sense hides a rare strength of character behind her stylish hairstyle and bourgeois ways....

Burning Lights International

The film begins with a volcanic eruption that stranded the director, Pauline Julier, in a foreign city, among strangers. In turns, these strangers evoke legends about the formation of the continents,...

Special Screenings

A few months after the passing of Yves Yersin, an essential figure of Swiss cinema, the Festival proposes a (re)discovery of two of his films in order to pay him tribute. An ethnographical documentary...

Special Screenings

Propre en ordre,  François Enderlin, 1982, 55' La Bonne conduite,  Jean-Stéphane Bron, 2000, 57'   One of the oldest news magazines in Europe, Temps Présent is also a legendary TV...

Special Screenings

Grand-maman, c'est New York , Jean-Pierre Moulin, Jean-Louis Roy, 1974, 33' Les Internés administratifs , Guy Ackermann, Alain Tanner, 1970, 54'   One of the oldest news magazines in...

Special Screenings

Barbara Miller's feature documentary  #FEMALE PLEASURE  portrays five courageous, smart and self-determined women, breaking the silence imposed by their archaic-patriarchal societies and religious...

Special Screenings

Shot in India, Malawi, Switzerland, Canada and Brazil,  The Dispossessed  is an impressionist journey into the daily reality of small farmers who struggle to make ends meet. In a world in which...

Special Screenings

La Lanterne Magique invites children and adults to get away from it all during a unique screening made up of film excerpts, past and present, telling us the great story of holidays, in turn humorous,...

Latitudes

Jacqueline Zünd seeks to capture what remains  unexpressed. She selected five children to attempt to grasp what happens for them when parents separate. These children have had/have to rebuild a...