My Life as a Zucchini

My Life as a Zucchini 2016

7.80

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

2016

The First, the Last

The First, the Last 2016

6.50

Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...

2016

The Price of Fame

The Price of Fame 2015

5.17

A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.

2015

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

De Humani Corporis Fabrica 2023

7.30

An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.

2023

With the Wind

With the Wind 2018

5.90

An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take the step towards total independence, and start producing their own electricity. The arrival of Samuel, who comes to install a wind turbine, deeply troubles Pauline, upsetting their relationship and their values.

2018

Sakda (Rousseau)

Sakda (Rousseau) 2012

6.00

Created in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this short essay centres on a monologue delivered by a reincarnation of the philosopher in twenty-first century Thailand.

2012

Déchaînées

Déchaînées 2009

6.60

Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s liberation movement in the 70’s. Her family’s resistance to talk about this time convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious woman, named Genevieve.

2009

Longwave

Longwave 2013

5.70

It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.

2013

Chemin faisant

Chemin faisant 2012

6.70

Through paintings that interact on the principle of Russian dolls, we are drawn along the swirling path of the thoughts of a pilgrim, a solitary walker.

2012

Émile de 1 à 5

Émile de 1 à 5 2012

2.00

Two young men are playing in a bathtub. Then a third and fourth slip in to join them. They are called Émile and they are looking for their “perfect mother” when a fifth man arrives, the Émile who reconciles them all.

2012

A Better World

A Better World 2013

1

Henry, dedicated citizen of a pitiless dictatorship, has always worked intensely at the Denunciation Ministry. But suddenly, the regime collapses; the cold, technocratic and paranoid world becoming at once an idyllic and caricatured countryside. Henry, panicked without the rules he was addicted to, seems to be the only one to regret the old regime. As if it was going to come back, he continues to follow the rules and clings to his useless work...

2013