Heidi Diggelmann

When an unmarried and childless funeral director searches for relatives of a man who died in solitude, she becomes aware of her own longing.

A romantic drama set in a stunning village in Italian Switzerland. Alice is a beautiful and troubled twenty-something who is on the run from a life that is out of control. When her estranged father dies she returns to the village of her childhood to execute his will. Here she meets the grandmother she never knew, a man who may hold the key to her heart and a young epileptic boy. We watch to see if Alice can mend the damage inflicted by warring parents. Ultimately Jump is an uplifting story about the power of friendship and love.

Housewife Therese Karlen has been suffering from insomnia for some time. Overwhelmed by her husband and children, she sets off with pensioner Liselott on a journey of self-discovery to the Bernese Oberland.

LOOKING LIKE MY MOTHER is a film about family relationships and personal destiny, about realizing one's own potential and one's limitations. It traces the individual experience, showing the emptiness one can feel as well as the discovery of a sense of meaning in life. It is a very personal and courageous film that doesn’t search for scientific explanations but instead uses documentary and fictional material to weave an intimate biography. This combination of perception and memory suggests a deep reconciliation and allows tender feelings of a mother’s love to emerge.

Katharina Pfister, a witty cleaning lady, disrupts a complicated murder investigation led by her former school crush and current police captain, Heiri Koller, as she hilariously uncovers the truth behind the mysteriously disappearing–and reappearing–corpse of her boss Lukas Manz.

A quirky Swiss comedy following the escapades of the eccentric Schwindelmeier family and their company, where oddball employees engage in humorous misunderstandings and slapstick office antics.

Two older women catch each other's eye at their hairdresser's. One is Maya, with a tart tongue and a businesslike air; the other is the softer Charlotte who seems to smile more often. After Charlotte leaves the salon that day, both review the encounter, and memories flood them.

When her apartment is terminated, student Nelly moves with her slightly demented grandmother to her plot in the community garden. Inspired and supported by her enamoured neighbour, she sets off to fight the pedantic president of the family garden, Franco, and unwittingly shakes the well-kept secret that once divided her family - and which had its beginning in the colourful and multicultural community garden world.

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On a gloomy November afternoon, police sergeant Josef Kummer spots a suspicious car in the bushes behind the Taubenschlag restaurant, a popular suburban brothel. Kummer, who is searching for an escaped prisoner, concludes that the fugitive is hiding nearby. But the car belongs to the mayor (Ueli Beck), who is enjoying an afternoon with a pretty young lady while his wife assumes he is working in his office. In his ambition, Kummer threatens to expose the local politician's amorous escapade and provoke a scandal of the first order. When he then mistakenly arrests the popular representative, chaos ensues.

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