Feature films
Zwingli
Production: C-Films
His life’s work made him world famous: within a few years, Huldrych Zwingli, the main proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, turned the entire city of Zurich and a firmly established canon of values upside down. With razor-sharp intellect, he dissected the religious and social system, denounced abuses and was not afraid of taking issue with the most powerful people of his time. In the end, he died, the opponent of war in a war he himself had endorsed.
Dark Fortune
Production: Triluna Film
Coproduktion: Fontana Film und SRF/SRG
Based on the novel “Finsteres Glück” by Lukas Hartmann.
Late at night, psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital bed of 8-year-old Yves. The boy is the only family member to have survived a car crash. Eliane is both horrified and fascinated by the boy’s fate. An invisible bond develops between them, blurring the boundaries between private and working life.
the circle
Winner Swiss Film Prize 2015
Production: Contrast Film
Zürich in the mid 50’s: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a member of the gay organisation DER KREIS. There he gets to know the transvestite star Röbi Rapp – and immediately falls head over heels in love with him. Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the organization, which in the whole of Europe is seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation.
How about Love
Production: Triluna Film
Coproduction: Fontana Film, SF DRS
Fritz is inspired and possessed by his work as a heart surgeon. His wife Lena urges him to take a vacation. They travel to the north of Thailand, where they visit one of Fritz’s former colleagues, who administers urgently needed medical care to refugees in a remote camp near the Burmese border. Bewildered and deeply moved by the conditions there, Fritz decides to stay on for a while, while his wife returns back home to their children in Switzerland.
Moritz
Production: Triluna Film
Coproduction: SF DRS, Fontana Film
Moritz is a young boy whose mother has to go to hospital for an indefinite period of time. He is entrusted to his neighbors, a male couple, who look after him with the best of care. The three of them would be an ideal temporary family, were it not for the authorities and the villagers, for whom it is unacceptable that a 10-year-old boy might live with two gays! A tug-of-war begins.
Utopia Blues
Winner Swiss Film Prize 2002
Production: Triluna Film
Coproduction: Fontana Film
The story of Rafael, a fun-loving youth on the verge of manhood who is trying to make his dream of total freedom come true. Determined to conquer the world with his Utopia Blues Band at any cost, Rafael’s philosophy is that «life is a game». But the game unexpectedly becomes bitter earnest. How much freedom is permitted?