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Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

Shayda, a brave Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised. Authentic, captivating, moving: based on her own childhood experiences, Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari has created a powerful debut film, winning the Audience Award at the renowned Sundance Film Festival in 2023. Actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who gained international acclaim with her role in "Holy Spider", shines in the lead role.

Lydia (Hafsia Herzi), a dedicated midwife, is in the middle of a breakup. At the time, her best friend Salomé tells her she is pregnant and asks her to monitor her pregnancy. One day, she comes across Milo - a one-night stand - as she is carrying her friend’s baby in her arms and embarks on a deceitful journey that may cost her everything. Inspired by the pregnancy of her best friend, Iris Kaltenbäck thoughtfully tells – with great cinematic subtlety – the story of motherhood and longing, loneliness, baby blues and the dream life of a young woman.

Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Bhutan becomes the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, and now the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, the authorities organize a mock election, but the locals seem unconvinced. Traveling to rural Bhutan where religion is more popular than politics, the election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for the election day.

Max's mother receives a new job as a nurse, which means moving to the Geroldseck retirement home: a real castle with towers, an armoury and dusty knight's armors. In old actress Vera, former football coach Horst and famous professor Kilian, Max finds a colourful group of friends who share his passion for intricate puzzles and tricky cases. It could all be so beautiful... But scary things soon start happening at the castle. And then there's the football match during which Max would really like to have revenge on his nasty classmate Ole. For Max and his friends, it's time to show great courage and real team spirit. In Winfried Oelsner's new movie adventure based on the successful children's book series of the same name, things are not only exciting, but also spooky! The world's most unusual gang of detectives plunges into a criminal case and learns that courage and solidarity can overcome all challenges, no matter your age. In addition to the young actors, Uschi Glas, Günther Maria Halmer and Thomas Thieme also impress as the oddball pensioners with plenty of sporting spirit and wit!

This is the story of Marco Carrera, known as "the hummingbird". As a teenager in the early 1970s, during a vacation by the sea, he meets Luisa Lattes. The two never become a couple, but their love for each other would fade, either. The gentle Marco later marries and lives with his wife and daughter in Rome. Fatal coincidences and losses characterize his eventful life - and he has to learn to deal with the unexpected and major changes. "Il Colibrì" tells of the fate of a sensitive man, of family misfortune, the power of memories and of a great, unbreakable love. The film skillfully oscillates between different time periods, from the 1970s to the present day. "Il Colibrì" is based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Sandro Veronesi. Italian director Francesca Archibugi has assembled a great ensemble of actors in front of the camera, including Pierfrancesco Favino, Nanni Moretti und Bérénice Bejo. The result is an unconventional, disarming and deeply touching family story.

Two solitary men (Bruno Ganz and Jean-Marc Stehlé) live in a secluded hut in the snow-covered Jura mountains. When a neighbor girl (Aude Eggimann) is suddenly left to fend for herself because her sister dies, the three are forced to get along. From this constellation, Maya Simon creates less of a survival drama than a poetic film that thrives on moods and is interspersed with dark dreams and memories. The director studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, and some of the shots in her debut film reveal the influence of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was shown at the Locarno and Cannes film festivals and is now available in a newly digitized version.

Boundary-pushing dancer Ida Rubinstein selects Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro. With Raphaël Personnaz, Doria Tillier, Jeanne Balibar, Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Perez, Suzanne Clément and Sophie Guillemin.

An engineer from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, with a family and political ambitions, falls in love with an Italian waitress. He puts his marriage and career on the line for this relationship, but the young woman is not prepared to give up her job and independence for him. A film about an unequal couple, told as a chronology of failure in 112 days. The cinematic form forces us to observe from a distance, while at the same time the film touches us with an interesting, strong female character. Co-writer of Alain Tanner's first color film is writer John Berger, with whom the filmmaker has made some of his most beautiful and famous films ("La salamandre", "Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000").

Paris in the 1950s: Somewhere between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé and comic author René Goscinny bend over a blank sheet of paper and bring a mischievous and lovable boy to life: Little Nicholas. From games and fights in the schoolyard to pranks and camaraderie at summer camp, Nicholas experiences a happy and carefree childhood. During all the adventures, the curious boy repeatedly slips into his creator's studio, sits on the keyboard or dances on the drawings. In the process, he elicits from Sempé and Goscinny the touching story of their friendship and their own childhood full of hopes and dreams. An irresistibly charming, funny and warm-hearted film about the creators of Little Nicholas, the illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé and the comic author René Goscinny.

"Sterben" follows the very individual members of the Lunies family, who haven’t been a family for a long time. Lissy (Corinna Harfouch) is quietly happy about her demented husband Gerd (Hans-Uwe Bauer) slowly wasting away in a home. But her new freedom is short-lived: Diabetes, cancer and kidney failure mean that she doesn't have much time left either. Son Tom (Lars Eidinger), a conductor in his early 40s, is working on a composition called "Sterben", while at the same time being made the surrogate father of his ex-girlfriend’s child. And Tom's sister Ellen (Lilith Stangenberg) starts an affair with the married Sebastian (Ronald Zehrfeld), with whom she shares a love for alcohol. As Death finally turns up on the doorstep, the estranged family members finally meet again. Matthias Glasner's family epic features an outstanding cast and performances by Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch and other acting greats. It was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2024 Berlinale. Tender and brutal, absurdly funny and extremely sad, terribly bitter and sometimes surprisingly beautiful: "Sterben" is a film about the intensity of life in the face of death and transience.

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house; offering city residents a comfortable ‘escape’ to nature. When two company representatives from Tokyo arrive in the village to hold a meeting, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply, causing unrest. The agency’s mismatched intentions endanger both the ecological balance of the nature plateau and their way of life, with an aftermath that affects Takumi’s life. Following his Oscar-winning "Drive My Car", Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "Evil Does Not Exist" is a poetic parable about the complex relationship between humankind and nature. This subtly and precisely told film - awarded the Silver Lion at the 80th Venice Film Festival - proves once again that Hamaguchi is one of the most exciting voices in independent cinema.

Where do Swiss German dialects stand in this era of globalisation? When the railways came to Switzerland in the mid-19th century, the Swiss feared that standard German would supplant the native idioms. But the opposite has happened: not only has the dialect survived, it has lost none of its vitality. Following in the footsteps of a forgotten Bernese word, we travel to the stage, the mountain pastures and the cellars to meet people who are passionate about the dialect. With Franz Hohler, Big Zis, Pedro Lenz, Alwa Alibi, Cachita, Simone Felber, Nadia Zollinger, Markus Gasser and Christoph Landolt.

Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve their freedom, the Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance.

Andrea, a small-town policewoman, has decided to move on from her unhappy marriage with the help of a transfer to a higher position in the police department of the next bigger city. As she drives home after a birthday party, she has no chance of stopping when her not-yet-divorced husband suddenly appears in front of her car, drunk. Unable to break, she runs him over and kills him. In a state of shock, Andrea flees the scene. Still, that night, being called to duty as the local police officer to the crime scene, she discovers to her horror that someone else has accepted responsibility for the accident: Franz, a religion teacher and recovered alcoholic, is convinced that he ran over the victim, and so is everyone else in the village. While Franz starts drinking again, Andrea applies herself to the task of eliminating all traces of her guilt... In his second feature film, Josef Hader blends humour with melancholy as he takes a look at sad, drunken men and a woman with a plan.

Jia Zhang-ke’s debut film tells the story of pickpocket Xiao Wu, who drifts aimlessly through the streets of the poor and dirty small town of Fenyang. He tries to hide his insecurity and lack of prospects behind a pair of big glasses and a cool demeanour but is increasingly losing his footing. His former friend Xiao Yong doesn’t want to have anything to do with him anymore; his love Mei Mei, who he met in a dingy karaoke bar, runs off with a richer man; and Xiao Wu’s father, who lives in a small mountain village, throws him out of the house after a fight. In the end, Xiao Wu is caught and handcuffed and taken away in full view of everyone on the whole street. Largely filmed with an ensemble of amateur actors, Xiao Wu draws a bleak picture of everyday life in China. The film premiered in the Berlinale Forum in 1998 and was an instant hit, making the director famous overnight.

Two happy families, a quiet beach and a house in the hills above the Adriatic Sea. It could be so perfect. But when teenager Finn has a breakdown it brings turmoil not only to the friendship between the families but also to the relationship between his parents Helena and Adam. In his second film, Swiss director Samuel Perriard portrays the gradual transformation of a couple, sensitively narrated and with strong atmospheric images - impressively embodied by Julia Jentsch and Florian Lukas. Eight days in August that change everything, and one last summer before a new chapter is opened.

Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school teachers to bureaucrats. These stirring vignettes, humorous and affecting, capture the spirit and determination of people amidst adversity, offering a nuanced portrait of a complex society. Iranian directing duo Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari tell the story of nine people who find themselves confronted with nerve-wracking governmental zeal. Set in Iran and having premiered at Cannes, the film is thematically universal: it revolves around the desire to regain control over one's own life in the face of interference from bureaucrats or other authorities of all kinds. "Terrestrial Verses" is a moving feature film with a radical formal aesthetic simplicity, sharp-tongued, pervaded by sarcastic wit and refreshing situational comedy.

Victor (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a renowned filmmaker, has started work on a film adaptation of Chekhov’s play "The Three Sisters". The project is in fact a pretext so that Victor can patch things up with Julie (Delphine Seyrig), his ex-wife, an actress whom he still loves. The ensemble includes Cécilia, a conscientious Italian actress, and Esther, a more carefree debutante who soon manages to exasperate Julie. With "Repérages", French-speaking Swiss filmmaker Michel Soutter has created a delicate intimate play about art, jealousy and reconciliation, in which life and imagination, memory and the present come together. Renato Berta's camerawork is as atmospheric as the locations in Bex in the canton of Vaud, and the international acting team, including Italian actress Lea Massari, is outstanding.

Carole's calm and quiet life is disrupted by the arrest of her son Martin in Borneo. Martin is accused of drug trafficking and sentenced to death. Above all, however, he is an unpleasant witness to mistreatment by palm oil producers. To save him, Carole fights against the farmers and the industrial lobbies that represent the economic interests of so-called "biofuels".