Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

Tao and Dong promised each other they’d return to the village where the latter grew up, in Inner Mongolia, before following his family, who left to find better fortune in a large city in Southern China. This voyage is a mere pretext meant to...

Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

Located on the île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine, the Paris Law Court looks like an impenetrable fortress. Like Kafka’s castle, it guards its secrets well. It is the place of power. The filmmaker, who worked there for several years as a...

Compétition Internationale Longs Métrages

In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The workers are locked in the building site. They are...

Regard Neuf

David, alias “Niñato” (kid in Spanish), a young single father who is unemployed and an occasional rapper, lives with his parents, his child, his sister and her own child. In this rather peculiar family life, between getting up, meals and...

Helvétiques

2015. In the Belarussian countryside, the Presidential election which will renew, once again, the mandate of Lukashenko, is being prepared. As for Kostia, he has just celebrated his 18 th birthday. The little village of Krupki, where he...

Compétition Internationale Moyens Métrages

In the event of natural disaster, turn off electricity and gas, hide your valuable objects, lock the house, climb onto the roof, and maybe you will survive. Natasha, 12 years old, knows these instructions by heart. So, while waiting for the...

Grand Angle

In Ouagadougou, a group of girls are studying to become mechanics at the education centre for women. Between sparkly pumps and nail polish, they juggle with wrenches and discuss batteries or bodywork sanding around the service pit. In the...

Premiers Pas

In 1920, Robert Flaherty filmed the Aran Islands and the difficult existence of its inhabitants. Now another filmmaker ventures to the same place, to be carried away by its wild nature, its silence, its ruins, and its people, who still have the...

Helvétiques

From one cave to another. In prehistoric times, human beings would leave paintings in caves to show their amazement and admiration for the complexity of the world. These reproductions of natural forms were the results of an act of creation and...

Helvétiques

This is the story of the first waves of Italian immigration to Switzerland. People threatened by the Schwarzenbach-Initiative. When signposts that read “Dogs and Italians forbidden” were “acceptable”. But this is also the story of a young singer...

Regard Neuf

The bench from which the former miner watches life on the shores of Geiseltal Lake is an excellent observation post. In the same way, the directors of Habitat have chosen the best point of view for each shot, thus composing extremely clear...

Compétition Internationale Courts Métrages

Suffocated by a cruel, inescapable siege imposed by the Syrian regime and after five months of incessant and senseless shelling, a group of children living in Aleppo start painting the walls of their city. It is an act of protest as well as...

Compétition Internationale Courts Métrages

“Who is your grandfather?” During an annual Mossi people ritual which takes place in Oueguedo in Burkina Faso, stories of the ancestors are told in drum language. “Who is your grandfather?” cries the master of ceremony to the chief of the tribe...

Grand Angle

The Patrouille des Glaciers, a military ski mountaineering race open to civilians, is the most severe mountain event that exists. Having taken part, himself three times, Frédéric Favre is aware of the difficulties and challenges of such an...

Projections Spéciales

Shanghai is a fast-growing city and an exciting place for innovation and development. How does this rapid change affect the young urban people? A group of nine Swiss filmmakers create captivating stories about young Chinese men and women living...

Projections Spéciales

Shanghai is a fast-growing city and an exciting place for innovation and development. How does this rapid change affect the young urban people? A group of nine Swiss filmmakers create captivating stories about young Chinese men and women living...

Projections Spéciales

Shanghai is a fast-growing city and an exciting place for innovation and development. How does this rapid change affect the young urban people? A group of six Swiss filmmakers create captivating stories about young Chinese men and women living...

Projections Spéciales

Shanghai is a fast-growing city and an exciting place for innovation and development. How does this rapid change affect the young urban people? A group of nine Swiss filmmakers create captivating stories about young Chinese men and women living...

Projections Spéciales

Shanghai is a fast-growing city and an exciting place for innovation and development. How does this rapid change affect the young urban people? A group of nine Swiss filmmakers create captivating stories about young Chinese men and women living...

Premiers Pas

Young boys hang around, in search of meaning and liberty; a perception of the world and of themselves is sketched out through the flow of rap lyrics. On the roofs, in the intimacy of the darkness, secrets emerge, and always, the search for...