UPCOMING
ONCE WE WERE PITMEN
in distribution
Black dust, shrill metallic noises, dark tunnels, muscular bodies – all that is the past. At the end of 2018, extraction of coal throughout Germany came to an end. That same year, the voices of the emerging climate protest movement Fridays for Future grew louder. Against the backdrop of these media and socio-political events, the film ONCE WE WERE PITMEN follows five miners on their tragic, humorous and heartwarming search for a new role in life.
Documentary
Script/Directors: Christian Johannes Koch & Jonas Matauschek
In co-production with Elemag Pictures, ZDF Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, SRF/SRG
World Premiere: DOK.fest München 2023
TÜMPEL
in distribution
A shoal of herrings, adopting fantastic formations, roams the vast ocean. When seagulls suddenly attack, one small herring finds itself stranded in a tidal pool. As it searches desperately for a way out, it discovers many other sea creatures here. And now there is no time for fear: only by joining forces can they hope to defend themselves against the hungry seagull.
Animation
Script/Director: Lena von Döhren & Eva Rust
In co-production with SRF/SRG
World sales: Magnetfilm, Berlin
World Premiere: Berlinale Generation Kplus 2023
AMINE – HELD AUF BEWÄHRUNG
in distribution
Amine Diare Conde fled from Guinea to Europe at the age of fifteen. He is the initiator of “Essen für alle”, a free food distribution for those who have too little food during the Corona pandemic and after. His voluntary work makes the 22-year-old the best-known asylum seeker in Switzerland. In the little time he has left besides the project, the rejected man fights for his right to stay.
Documentary
Script/Director: Dani Heusser
Co-Director: Simon Usteri
In co-production with SRF/SRG, der Wurf
Release CH: 20. April 2023
World Premiere: 58. Solothurner Filmtage
8 DAYS IN AUGUST
in post-production
Two happy families, a quiet beach and a house in the hills above the Adriatic Sea. It could be so perfect. But when teenager Finn has a breakdown it brings turmoil not only to the friendship between the families but also to the relationship between his parents Helena and Adam. Eight days in August that change everything.
Fiction
Script: Samuel Perriard & Markus Ziegler
Director: Samuel Perriard
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Florian Lukas, Sami Loris & Sarah Hostettler
In co-production with Helios Sustainable Films, Italy (Martin Rattini), SRG/SRF
Distributor: Cineworx
THE DRIVEN ONES
in post-production
A generation portrait in which we follow the lives of five international economy students from their studies at the University of St. Gallen over the course of five years: during their academic education, in their private lives and the first years of their professional careers.
Documentary, 2017-2022
Script/Director: Piet Baumgartner
Distribution: Filmcoopi
World Sales: Autlook
In co-production with SRF/SRG
Selected for IDFA Forum 2020
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
in post-production
1962. A physics congress in Switzerland. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming secret under the mountain. The theory of everything. A quantum mechanical thriller in black and white.
Fiction
Script: Roderick Warich, Timm Kröger
Director: Timm Kröger
In co-production with Ma.ja.de, Panama Film
THE WAR SURGEON
in development
A renowned Swiss plastic surgeon repeatedly travels to war zones to operate on wounded people there. Ever since he experienced the massacres in Rwanda, he has been driven to ensure medical care and security in conflict areas. To achieve his goal, he takes unconventional and ambivalent paths. Can he take the moral high road? And how contemporary is the humanitarian aid approach of a white, rich man in the 21st century?
Documentary
Script: Loraine Blumenthal, Philippe Grob
Director: Loraine Blumenthal
DO YOU TRUST ALBERT BACHMANN?
in development
Enter the Swiss Cold War, a world of spies, double agents and secret armies, to uncover the truth about Colonel Bachmann.
Documentary
Script/Director: Daire Collins
CITRUS LAND
in development
The family stability of Esme, a Salvadorian teenager, is shattered when her father suddenly dies and her mother is thrown into prison. Esme decides to put on her father's costume, to bet everything on her great ability to endure pain and to take part in a Lucha Libre competition. She hopes to win the prize money to be able to bail out her mother.
Fiction
Script: Klaudia Reynicke & Diego Vega
Director: Klaudia Reynicke
In co-production with Cinédokké Sagl (Michela Pini)
MIRROR WORLDS
Fiction
Script: Christa Capaul
Idea & Research: Tanja Meding
in development
Zurich, 1853, Emilie Spyri, the niece of famous author Johanna Spyri, is born into one of the most exciting time in Swiss society.
Strong willed and extremely gifted, Emilie is the apple of her father's eye, but has a very different idea of life than society accepts her to have. She not only marries the freethinker Walter Kempin against her fathers will but also enrolls at the law school at the University of Zurich. A decision with far reaching consequences as her father withholds her dowry.
In spite of having three children, she soon earns her doctorate as the first Swiss and European female lawyer ever! Thus she has already exceeded too many limits from a male perspective. Her will to change society, especially the status of women, must be broken.
TV
SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS
in post-production
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 / 8 x 45',
COMING OF AGE ACTION DRAMA SERIES
Script: Clemens Aufderklamm
In co-production with Superfilm Austria (John Lüftner), ORF, SRF & BR
FIO LINA AND THE MAESTRO
in financing
The three episodes of Fio Lina and the Maestro tell of the adventures of the music witch Fio Lina with the maestro of an instrument orchestra in the world of classical music in a humorous, warm-hearted way.
Animation / 3 x 25'
Script: Matthias Keilich
Character Design: Lena von Döhren
Background Design: Oswald Iten
Based on the THE WITCH AND THE MAESTRO, A Musical Fairy Tale by Howard Griffiths.
In co-production with SRF/SRG
LEGAL GUILT – THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
in development
In legal circles, female defence lawyers are considered «the savages» as their clients are often «troublemakers». In the public perception, they represent the «guilty».
LEGAL GUILT offers a rare glimpse into the closed world of criminal justice, questions the unequal power relations in criminal law and tells of the human side of the work of four female defence lawyers in a male-dominated world.
Documentary / 4 x 50'
Script: Dario Schoch, Philippe Grob, Felix Hergert
Co-Director: Felix Hergrert
SICK
in development
When his father dies, Driton moves into the "Arche" residential group, a place for young people who come from difficult backgrounds. Like Jerry and Nina, Driton's new roommates. But does where you come from determine where you go? The three outsiders fight for a new beginning and become friends.
Fiction / 8 x 25'
COMING OF AGE DRAMA SERIES
Script: Gesa Scheibner, Marc Vogel
SHORT
THE LAST ASCENT
in post-production
Alberto and Susana, married for 60 years, have lived their daily lives in Tepoztlán the same way for decades. Hand in hand they cope with the hard work in the fields and in the house. Their relationship now has noticeable scars. There seems to be no trace of love any more. One last project unites the two: on their anniversary they want to climb "their" mountain once again.
Short-Anima-Documentary
Script/Director: Remo Scherrer
In co-production with SRF/SRG