Nina and Madeleine, have lived next door to each other on the top floor for decades. Everyone, including Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbours. They come and go between their two flats, enjoying and sharing pleasures of daily life together, until an unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down. This event leads Madeleine’s daughter to gradually reveal the truth about the two friends.
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Zu Unrecht aus dem historischen Gedächtnis gestrichen: Gertrud Woker setzte sich als eine der ersten Professorinnen Europas beharrlich für Frauenrechte und Frieden ein. Geschlechterdiskriminierung und Kriegstreibereien zum Trotz forderte sie Konventionen ihrer Epoche heraus und wurde zu einer Inspiration selbstbestimmter Frauen, dazumal wie heute.
«Gleicher Lohn für gleiche Arbeit», bereits 1917 forderte Gertrud Woker die Gleichberechtigung der Frauen. Sie war Pionierin der Friedens- und Frauenbewegung und eine der ersten Professorinnen Europas. Durch ihre Forschung und Kritik am Einsatz von Giftgasen geriet die Naturwissenschaftlerin bald in Konflikt mit der militaristisch motivierten Elite. Dennoch kämpfte sie unaufhaltsam bis ins hohe Alter für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit sowie gegen den Missbrauch der Wissenschaft. Als geisteskrank verleumdet, verbrachte die Pazifistin die letzten Jahre ihres Lebens schliesslich in einer psychiatrischen Klinik. So verschwand sie zu Unrecht, aber vielleicht nicht zufällig, aus dem historischen Gedächtnis.
Der animierte Dokumentarfilm DIE PAZIFISTIN erzählt collagenhaft das Leben und ihre Errungenschaft dieser faszinierenden Frau. Durch Tagebucheinträge, wissenschaftliche Berichte und Gedichte von Gertrud Woker selbst, berührt der Film durch Nahbarkeit und Ehrlichkeit. DIE PAZIFISTIN ist gleichermassen biografisch wie auch eine Dokumentation des damaligen Zeitgeschehens und beleuchtet dieses aus der Perspektive einer mutigen Frau, die zu Lebzeiten nicht zum Schweigen gebracht werden konnte.
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Der Weg VON DER KÜCHE INS PARLAMENT war für die Schweizer Frauen steinig und lang – vier Generationen mussten dafür kämpfen, dass das männliche Stimmvolk den Frauen das Recht auf politische Mitbestimmung gewährte. Mit Feingefühl und Humor zeichnet Stéphane Goëls Dokumentarfilm DE LA CUISINE AU PARLEMENT – EDITION 2021 diesen Weg nach.
Politikerinnen und Aktivistinnen wie Elisabeth Kopp, Ruth Dreifuss, Tamara Funiciello, Marina Carobbio, Amélie Christinat, Marthe Gosteli, Gabrielle Nanchen, Patricia Schulz, Brigitte Studer und Simone Chapuis-Bischof beschreiben ihren Kampf für die egalitäre Sache. Im reichen Archivmaterial, in dem auch gewöhnliche Bürger*innen zu Wort kommen, spiegelt sich der Mentalitätswandel während eines Jahrhunderts.
Der Jubiläums-Kinofilm im Namen der Gleichberechtigung – ein vergnügter und tiefer Einblick im Kampf ums Frauenstimmrecht.
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Frauenstadtrundgang Basel, Winterthur und Luzern
A tax haven in Switzerland, a half-hearted fight against tax evaders in Germany, a formerly wealthy African country that was led into the abyss by world market prices of raw materials: What at first glance seem to have nothing to do with each other stands for a global economic system that determines all our lives – and the filmmaker is right in the middle of it.
Suzanne is 16 years old. She is bored with her peers. On the way to school she passes a theatre every day. There she meets a much older man who becomes her obsession. Because of their age difference, they think that they are no longer bored and fall in love. But Suzanne feels how she risks missing out on her life as a 16-year-old, which she has as much trouble living out as the others.
Three days in the life of fitness motivator Sylwia Zajac, whose presence on social media has made her a celebrity. Although she has hundreds of thousands of followers, is surrounded by loyal employees and admired by acquaintances, she is looking for true intimacy.
Between goats, cows and the Alps, Fabiano (38) becomes a father. But the idyll is deceptive: he tries hard to make the alpine cheese the way his drop-out parents did in the 70s. In addition to debts, feelings of guilt also gnaw at him. Last year, a Macedonian moonlighter had a fatal accident. Since then, his death has never let Fabiano go. How can he and his girlfriend Eva build a life together with their offspring under such difficult circumstances?
Set against the imposing and oppressively quiet backdrop of the Ticino Alps, Aldo Gugolz’s film turns out to be an exciting tightrope walk between a criminal case and a sensitive portrait of a young farmer.
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“You’re too baked, sweetheart”, says Mads’ mother after greeting him with a kiss on the lips. In this family it is okay to bend the law, as long as you do it right. A twisted lesson the 17-year-old Ida is about to learn. Having recently lost her mother in a car accident, she has been taken in by her aunt and three cousins, whom she barely knows. Theirs is a loving home, but it soon transpires that the family, led by its caring but disciplinarian matriarch, engages in criminal activities. As boundaries keep on being pushed, Ida finds herself torn between her safety and the allure of her cousins’ ferocious behaviour. When the clan descends into conflict with the police, Ida has to decide what is more dear to her: the loyalty to her new family or her own life.
Featuring a superb central performance by newcomer Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Jeanette Nordahl’s fiercely intelligent debut is an arresting study of family and dysfunctionality, the nourishing and burdensome nature of love, and the complexity of desire. An impressive mix of remarkable camerawork, exquisite writing, and a visceral, electronic score. An intense film that runs deep.
A 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden attempts to come to terms with the mysterious Resignation Syn- drome that has put his two sisters in a coma. The tight-knit family is trying to rebuild a normal life far from their native Kosovo where they were victims of persecution. While their entire future hangs in the balance of a pending asylum request, the little boy dreams of building a spaceship to leave it all behind.
VOLUNTEER is a film about the grassroots movement of ordinary Swiss citizens who set out to help thousands of refugees stranded in Greece. In rich and safe Switzerland, citizens from different backgrounds leave their orderly lives behind to support people in need. There is a Swiss farmer and his wife who raise cows in the Alps, a captain in the Swiss army, a pensioner who resides on the lakeside, and a successful comedian and entertainer. These volunteers embark on an adventure that will change their lives forever.