Le chevalier Ă la rose Blaise Piguet – Switzerland Sepp, a young farmer, doesn’t want to have anything to do with the Montandons daughter nor with arranged marriages. Against his parents’ advice, he signs up to a dating agency and decides to travel to Lausanne to meet Rosa, his first blind date. On the train […]
L’hacienda du bonheur Heikki Arekallio – Switzerland In her grey, sad council flat Silvia dreams of a life, like those of the glamorous characters in her favourite telenovela “L’Hacienda du Bonheur”, which she watches every night with her two children Johnny and Pamela. In a bid to find a soul mate, that lives up to […]
Joyeux NoĂ«l Bianca Conti Rossini – Switzerland On Christmas Eve Annie, a young girl with a lively imagination, wonders who the stranger is her mother Lise has invited to join them for dinner. What if he’s the murderer who has been roaming the streets of the city, preying on single women ? Her mother becomes […]
Einfach so Christoph Schaub – Switzerland Angela has planned her blind date perfectly: She will arrive early at the restaurant, so she can get a good look of the stranger before he sees her. For reassurance she takes along her trusty companion, her dog Zacki. The stranger is late to arrive and a series of […]
Bacigalupo Robert Bouvier – Suisse Lucie is a dreamer on a mission to find her Prince Charming. She has a date in a cabaret. There with the code word “deep night” she will meet with a handsome stranger. When a blind painter calls her up on stage with that very code word asking her to […]
AngĂ©lique Samir – Suisse Allesandro can’t believe his eyes, when he sees his sexy, beautiful blind date walk into the cafĂ© they had arranged to meet at. He feels too intimidated to talk to her and tries to slip off unnoticed. But Angelique is a woman who knows what she wants and doesn’t take no […]
In his strict and consistent composition, Swiss director Oliver Zuchuat lets the texts collide hard and speak for themselves. DOK LEIPZIG, Cornelia Klauss
Firmly feminist in outlook and culture-changing in its aspirations, “Delwende” combines aspects of Greek tragedy with a critical eye toward the misuse of tradition in contempo Africa. Helmer S. Pierre Yameogo uses shelters for women accused of witchcraft to highlight the injustices of a society whose manipulation of superstition has tragic consequences for powerless women… Pic is a fine example of issue-based African cinema. VARIETY
For his undeniable technical qualities, the strength of his theme, his author’s eye and the accuracy with which the director showed the courage and dignity of his fellow citizens. MONTREAL JURY
The Dignity of the Nobodies draws its strength from the sum of these particular narratives: personal tragedies, epic tales, daring new adventures. Solanas innovates the genre by giving the documentary the dimension of a fresco. POSITIF
Refusing the miserable map thanks to a very Balkan humour and a faithful description of reality, Maria is a testimony of this intermediate state between Ceaucescu’s Romania and the current liberalism. A world where the cruel lack of reference points is detrimental to the most fragile. ZURBAN, VĂ©ronique Le Bris
