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- Two men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the south of France. During their journey they realize that, however unlikely, they're not so different after all.
- A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.
- Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
- East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
- In a village of the French Juras, Daniel, 15, and Marie, 14, live in the shadow of their brutal, domineering father, who can only express his love through violence. When their mother dies, the two inseparable children flee into the forest pursued by their father.
- At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
- The story of a young city boy wanting to become the mahout, the elephant driver. Despite his master's belief that only Karen tribe people are born to be mahouts, the lad finally wins his heart and becomes a real mahout.
- In 1931, Rosa Maria left the village of Riace in Calabria to escape poverty. One day, Bairam docked on the beach in Riace along with two hundred other Kurdish. Today the people of Riace are called Roberto, Ousmane, Emilia, Mohamed. They don't have much but they invent daily their common destiny.
- Teacher watches his life become upside down after Justice appoints him as tutor of a troubled kid.
- Antoine loves Thérèse. He is a shepherd and tends the animals with his uncle Séraphin. Thérèse works in the village with her mother. One day, a landslide buries Antoine and Séraphin.
- Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.
- Two half-siblings Jana and Miroslav are ineffectually trying to escape their mutual attraction and break free from their fatal relationship. Two time levels, presence and 1970s, inter-mesh in the film.
- Seventeen years after the disappearance of the little Garance, her parents are harassed and intimidated by a mysterious voice that mimics that of their lost little girl.
- A French 'videographer' crosses Canada by train from east to west in the snow. This journey leads her to meet the last companion of her ex-husband, an internationally known showman, who is missing.
- The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
- Conrad and Louise Bapst are little farmers from the Swiss alpine living in autonomy and sharing the same estate with their three sons. They make Gruyère by hand, as it has been produced for three hundred years.
- To alleviate overcrowding in prisons, the Ministry of the Interior has the idea of creating the home prison . The snag is that among the Klarh, a carefully selected couple, it is a big crook that is sent, instead of a harmless prisoner.
- In a Lausanne, Salvatore, a young addict, after nine months of preventive prison, commits suicide.
- Kamel and his younger brother live in Bab el Oued, a popular district of Algiers. Kamel is embittered and rather taciturn while jollier Bouzid escapes the drab reality of his life chatting on the Internet with girls from all over the world. Certain that none of them will ever accept he invites them all to visit him. To his amazement, a French woman called Laurence accepts his invitation...
- In a mountainside village, where the sun never shines in winter, the old prophet Anzevui announces that, in this year 1937, war will break out and the sun will never shine again. The village is divided into two camps: those who resign themselves to the news, such as Arlettaz who drowns his sorrow in alcohol, and those who keep the torch of hope alight, such as Cyprien who sets out to find the sun. He returns exhausted but a young girl, Isabelle, takes up his struggle, followed by other villagers who have not lost hope. They will greet the rising sun which the dying Anzevui will never see.
- Torn from a dream while trying to seduce the woman he wants, Adrien decides to make it come true. To do this, he will call on Yoska, a Slavic intellectual recycled into moonlighting.
- This TV film, often shown in two episodes, is a screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.
- Two enthusiasts of genealogy bring together as many descendants of Moise Blin as they can. Moise Blin was an 18th century Alsatian Jewish peddler. This gathering reveals the chronicles of one family, from before the French Revolution to present day: an exemplary history of the Jews, from persecution to assimilation.
- Three sisters leaves their swiss village and move to China, where their father settles a factory. Lost in this foreign world, they have to learn to be independent.
- A little girl delights in sewing a dress from the new, colourful meadow of flowers blooming every morning, unaware of the consequences.
- Guillaume, documentalist in a newspaper, is confronted with the most violent news. He works with Lavigne, star journalist of the newspaper. Guillaume is jealous of the reporter who represents the adventurer for him.
- This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from February to May 1990, filmmaker Jacqueline Veuve and her team filmed a platoon engaged in basic training at Colombier, Switzerland.
- A family goes to Geneva airport to collect something that will change their lives forever.
- Francoise, 25, and Alexandre, 27, live in Lausanne and plan to marry soon. Alexandre suggests having the religious ceremony in Cameroon, where Françoise was born. With the help of Francoise's African uncle the couple embark on extensive marriage preparations. In Africa marriage is a big event, and celebrated accordingly, so inevitably, the couple's families have rather different ideas and hilarious misunderstandings ensue.
- It is summer 1937 and spectators are lined up along the streets of a small village called Lucens. Racing cyclists pass through the village at top speed. The children at that time, who are grandparents today, begin to tell their tales.