UPCOMING
HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE
in distribution
In the heart of a European metropolis, an unexploded World War II bomb ignites a cascade of fear and self-reflection. As residents confront anxiety and uncertainty, unlikely alliances emerge amidst the chaos.
HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE is a multi-layered narrative that delves into the human condition against a backdrop of societal unease. It intertwines stories of resilience and connection in a city on edge.
Fiction Feature
Script/Director: Kerstin Polte
a Tamtam Film production (Germany) in co-production with Catpics, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Distribution Germany: MissingFilms
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​World Premiere: Filmfest Hamburg​
SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS | SEASON 2
in distribution
SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS is a coming-of-age-action-drama series about a group of young athletes and their mentors, all struggling to succeed in a highly competitive total institution: an elite boarding school for future world ski-champions.
Fiction Series 8 x 45'
Creator: Clemens Aufderklamm
Script: Samuel Schultschik, Marlene Rudy, Marie-Therese Thill, Christian Eichtinger
In co-production with Superfilm Austria, ORF, SRF/SRG
World Sales: ORF Entrerprises
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BATS AND BUGS
in production
When a lantern is lit on a country road in the jungle, a group of insects goes crazy. This is just in time for the hungry bats in an adjacent cave.
Animation Short
Script/Director: Lena von Döhren
In co-production with SRF/SRG
QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE
in production
QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE accompanies the charismatic and contentious archaeologist Bettina Schulz-Paulsson with her unconventional research family as a road movie across Europe. The film brings to light the political dimension of our view of the past, and is as exciting, entertaining, human, and sensual as no archaeological film before.
Documentary Feature
Script/Director: David Bernet
PLITSCHPLATSCH FOREVER!
in production
Pola saves the Plitschplatsch swimming pool from closure and opens herself up to new encounters and experiences.
Fiction Feature
Script: Sabina Gröner
Director: Natascha Beller
THE FOOL OR THE HOLYMAN
in production
Two siblings set out to unravel the truth behind their father, a man with many faces, Colonel Albert Bachmann — Switzerland’s most controversial Cold War spy. Through three conflicting narratives, they attempt to piece together the life of a man who was seen as a hero, fool and something much darker.
Documentary Feature
Script: Daire Collins & Philippe Grob
Director: Daire Collins
Contrabbando
in financing
In remote Swiss Alpine villages near the northern Italian border, an era of smuggling prevailed in the post-war period up to the 1970s. Tonnes of cigarettes, but also coffee, were brought over the narrow and steep mountain paths from Switzerland to Italy using muscle power. Women, men and children were involved. And the Federal Council too.
TV-Documentary
Script: Magnus Langset
Director: Magnus Langset
GARDI – DA ZERO
in financing
After the global success of her legendary clown character ‘Hanna’, Gardi Hutter has bravely decided against retirement and wants to reinvent herself once again. In the stage play ‘Zero’, she embarks on the journey to new artistic shores and a new self.
Documentary
Script: Miriam Ernst
Director: Miriam Ernst
MY FUTURE FRIENDS
in development
For Nola (13), robots are better friends than humans. Ostracized as a nerd at school, she develops her late father's last robot into a friend. When Nola gains a real friend in beatbox talent Spocky (13), she learns the limits and risks of AI and robots.
Fiction Feature
Script: Bettina Schmid
Director: Michael Schaerer
THE GUARD
in development
After a fellow Swiss Guard makes an attempt on the life of the Pope, the Pontiff's new bodyguard investigates, coming up against powerful shadowy Vatican clerics desperate to supress the truth.
Fiction Series
Script: Stéphane Mitchell, Christian Johannes Koch
Director: Christian Johannes Koch
MEINETWEGEN
in development
The psychodrama MEINETWEGEN tells the story of Katharina's intimate world, a girl struggling with the consequences of a criminal offence. The film, based on the novel of the same name by Dagmar Schifferli, is an exploration of the human psyche in the form of a captivating monologue that unfolds during Katharina's therapy sessions, where the supposed monologue becomes a special kind of dialogue.
Fiction Movie
Script: Rolf Hellat
Director: Rolf Hellat