Our co-production «Segnali di vita» by Leandro Picarella will be released in Swiss theaters on February 27th. There will be premieres and special screenings with director Leandro Picarella and/or producer Frank Matter in Basel, Berne, Zurich, Lugano, Chur, Liestal. Please find the schedule on our events page and here's the trailer.

Selected from 153 documentaries, «Quir» by Nicola Bellucci is among the 15 films on the Italian Film Award’s shortlist for Best Documentary! The Jury of the Italian Film Academy will decide on the final 5 nominees for the David Cecilia Mangini Award 2025.

«Quir» by Nicola Bellucci has been awarded with the audience award Prix du Public at the 60th Solothurn Film Festival. The cast and crew were honored with long standing ovations at both festival screenings. We thank everyone for their warm welcome and support. Please watch the trailer.

«E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea», directed by Beatrice Minger and co-directed by Christoph Schaub, has been nominated for the Swiss Film Award 2025 in four categories: Best Documentary, Best Cinematography (Ramòn Giger SCS), Best Film Editing (Gion-Reto Killias) and Best Film Score (Peter Scherer). The awards ceremony will take place on March 21 in Geneva.

We’re happy to announce that «Quir» by Nicola Bellucci has won the ITA-DOC competition of the Rome International Documentary Festival! The sold out screening has been a great success and the attending cast and crew engaged in an emotional Q&A.

«Quir» by Nicola Bellucci has been awarded with the Pride Award at the Florence Queer Film Festival «for its ability to explore multiple queer identities with an authentic and empathetic approach. The film addresses the plurality of identities without ever being intrusive, using a spontaneous and delicate language. Set in Palermo, QUIR portrays a city of obvious contradictions, where moments of political reflection mingle with areas that are still far from full liberation. Its characters, reminiscent of those in a commedia dell’arte, move in a social context where the dynamics of oppression and liberation intertwine naturally and fluidly. With lightness and depth, QUIR invites reflection on the emotional and cultural nuances of the issues it deals with, without ever falling into superficiality.» (Jury: Vincenzo Restivo, Sam Bertoldi & Roberta Parigiani)

Our co-production «E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea» (directed by Beatrice Minger, co-directed by Christoph Schaub) will be released in Swiss theaters on November 28th. Please find the schedule for specials with cast and crew on ourevents page and check here your preferred theater for screenings. «Great architecture cinema» (FAZ)

We're looking forward to the official start of filming our documentary project «From Punk into the Future» by Steff Bossert. We're following the legendary Reverend Beat-Man and the aspiring musician Milan Slick on their journey together. «From Punk into the Future» uses touching, cross-generational encounters to tell the story of major changes in the cultural scene and the struggle to find one's own artistic position in a confusing time. By juxtaposing Beat-Man's story and the legacy of the Bernese youth movement of the 1980s with the doubts and conflicts of very young musicians, the film gets to the bottom of the question of what fades from cultural and political movements and what lives on in the work of later generations.

«Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor» by Olivier Joliat and Matthias Willi is now available on international streaming platforms. Check the film's official website for direct links. The list is continuously updated.

Within Switzerland, you can now stream the following films on kult.kino's curated video platform myfilm.ch:

«Play with the Devil – Becoming Zeal & Ardor»
by Olivier Joliat and Matthias Willi
«Manuel Gagneux enthuses audiences worldwide with his gospel metal. «Play with the Devil» shows the beginnings of the charismatic multi-talent and accomplishes something few music films do.» (Nick Joyce, Tages-Anzeiger)

«Parallel Lives» by Frank Matter
«For me «Parallel Lives» is a Great Theater of the World, as Calderón would have made it, had cinema already been invented in his time. (...) a great, sensual, passionate image, sound and thought game.» (Hanspeter Stalder, der-andere-film.ch)

«Arada» by Jonas Schaffter
«An expertly filmed and edited, multi-layered portrait.» (DOK.fest Munich)

«I'll be your mirror» by Johanna Faust
«A deeply honest film revealing universal insights» (Zurich Film Festival)

«Thomas Hirschhorn ‐ Gramsci Monument» by Angelo A. Lüdin
«An electrifying portrait» (WochenZeitung)

«La buena vida – The Good Life» by Jens Schanze
«A disturbing and touching film.» (Süddeutsche Zeitung)