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After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to an orphanage with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.

In a working class neighborhood in Casablanca, Abdellah, a homosexual teen, tries to build his own life within his big family, caught between an authoritarian mother and an older brother, who he adores.

As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure.

Anne Dupraz, a respected prosecutor in Geneva, is in custody for shooting a man, now between life and death. She admits her guilt but seems unable to explain her act. Her interrogation will allow Anne to finally free herself from her past.

Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.

Pauline, a young farmer, raises her animals far from the modern world. When Samuel arrives to install a wind turbine on the farm, her values and her love for Alex are put to the test.

Two friends decide to steal Charlie Chaplin's body, right after his death, for ransom.

After a long journey, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returns to visit her mother in her apartment in the Beaux-Rivage Palace. He discovers that she is too emotional .

April 1974. The Federal Councellor, annoyed by the anti-establishment tone of The French speaking Swiss radio channel, imposes "safer" subjects on Philippe de Roulet, the programs director. To please him, de Roulet sends to Portugal a team composed of Julie, a dedicated feminist, Cauvin, a former war reporter sidelined since he started losing memory, and Bob, a sound technician close to retirement, with the mission to report on the impact of Swiss aid to the country. They comply more or less reluctantly, but the results of their investigation are so pathetic that they decide to drop the whole thing and to drive back to Lausanne. This is exactly the time when their path crosses that of a trio of Belgian journalists who tell them that a full-scale revolution is under way...

Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning even though he has been estranged from her for years. Their reunion will be more explosive than this diplomatic trip.

19-year-old Lucy, a TV intern at a Swiss TV network, discovers a lookalike in archival footage about the local women's-lib movement in the 1970s. Her family's resistance to the matter convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious double, and she sets out to find the woman. She slowly finds out that her doppelganger, Genevieve, was an infamous feminist and abortion activist and could be her real grandmother. Why did Genevieve disappear? Why was she scratched from her family's history? Why did she abandon Lucy's mother? Lucy's family stays mum. Her problems pile up when she discovers she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend. Torn between her mother's advice of an immediate abortion and her ex-boyfriend's proposal, Lucy cannot choose. She finds refuge in the idea that finding Genevieve, who abandoned her own child and was fighting for abortion rights, holds the key to her past, therefore her future as a woman. As her family implodes, Lucy and her abrasive teen sister discover a family plot that leads her to revisit the history of women's liberation in Switzerland through archival footage and encounters with participants in the 1970s movement. Her final confrontation with Genevieve lets out the heavy secret that encumbered her family for three generations of women and forces Lucy to position herself as a feminist.

The new president of Switzerland is struggling to free a group of hostages being held in Yemen. She's prepared to do anything to achieve that goal. For even in the most placid country in the world, shady dealings are hatched behind closed doors and political ambitions feed on violence. That is, until Tina, a cleaning lady at the Federal Palace, throws a monkey wrench into the intricate gears of that political machine. What if a lowly cleaning person were able to thwart a gigantic affair of state?

A missing bride-to-be, a course for confused men, a couple in crisis, a Carnival monster, marmot hunters and a glacier in peril. Will the community of Excelsior be able to face up to its contradictions as everything falls apart?

A series of 55 short films made for the 300rd birthday (1712-2012) of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) puts his philosophy into a new context.

Dirty Gold War is a fable about gold and the reality that lies beneath a sacred metal associated with love and celebrations. Through protagonists such as Raoni Metuktire or Marco Arana, the film opens our eyes to the devastating gold rush sites, deep within Amazonia. This film reveals important issues about a gold rush that is continuing in the 21st century, in silence and indifference, regardless of the interests of indigenous peoples and of our planet.

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. By mixing themselves up in their narrow bath, these children abandoned by Rousseau create a new fraternity.

In semi-obscurity, we hear a few chords on the guitar, a man whispering into a microphone then into a recording device on the Mekong river bank, that will relay his voice.

Through paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller.

A child refuses to share a toy with a classmate.

A Swiss way too Iranian on a quest to get a visa for a truly American dream.

What if to leave was in fact to find oneself? What if to take a train became a journey within oneself? Naples. Berlin. Marseille. Three encounters. What if real life was somewhere else to be found?

Samuel, 10, learns the sudden death of his father and must keep the secret from his younger brother Lucas, 5 years old.