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A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.

It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk on life, but the sensitive Henry does not follow him. Lys has betrayed his fiance, as Henry once betrayed his lost love Anna. In memory of Anna and his cruel Dickensian childhood, Henry challenges Lys to a duel to try to appease his guilt.

In 1943, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug - its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists. Could it actually be possible to find a path to the core of our human existence by means of a chemical? Spirituality at the flick of a switch? Do the enigmatic effects of this drug really help us to better understand the human soul? Could LSD be an instrument of contemporary psychiatry? Of modern brain research?

The story of a Turkish Alevi family trying to illegally emigrate to Switzerland, a country they know only from a postcard.

The murder of a young woman's son sparks a pivotal moment in the fight for women's rights and political equality in early 20th century Switzerland, setting the stage for a historic court case.

Middle Earth is... right in the heart of Europe! A spoof of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy set in Switzerland.

A British attorney on vacation in Tennessee is blamed for a local murder.

Based on the events surrounding the Solar Temple Order. A father tries to rescue his daughter who has entered a sect which had plotted a terrible faith for their disciples.

Finlander Alex works as a taxi-driver in Berlin and is married to an Italian. One night, two men get into his taxi with a briefcase full of money. Unluckily for Alex, they are being chased by gangsters whose money was stolen. They get killed in a shoot-out and Alex must get rid of their bodies.

Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.

Occasionally malignant and always very original black and white film about the delusion and reality of twelve-year-old Stephanie

Swiss documentary by Mirjam von Arx, the insight into the architecture of Norman Foster, who built the headquarters of Swiss Re, the world's largest reinsurance company in London.

An expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds himself hopelessly entangled in an elaborate terrorist assassination plot.

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Marcus Welby takes a holiday in France in Switzerland where he finds romance with a wealthy American divorcée who's being pursued by her ex-husband.

For Véronique and Pierre, it's a funny Saturday: unusual meetings and unpredictable events follow one another.

Michel and Paul earn money from passers-by by doing chalk drawings outside the Louvre. They also make the scene at the hot spots of Paris. Sand is a wealthy and luscious blonde lesbian artist who paints nude girls and houses an entourage of chic chicks at her loft. When Michel's gorgeous sister shows up from out of town, both Paul and Sand fall for her. During a wild Roman costume party, she is abandoned by the disgusted Paul, and poses nude for Sand. An outraged Michel bursts in on them and confronts Sand, but some unexpected emotions between them begin to stir. Will Sand forsake her decadent lifestyle for the arrogant Michel?

Senta von Meissen invites the fellow students of her graduation class from 1938 - 50 years ago - for a class reunion into her castle. They expect to happily party through the weekend - but that's not what their host intends for them. A foreboding steals upon Senta's visitors, when there remains an empty seat at the dinner table, preserved for a student, who came to death during one of their scholar excursions.

Pipe, farmhand for 30 years, buys a moped with his old-age insurance allowances. Despite a difficult start, Pipe sets out to discover a reality he did not know.

From birth, Hanan and Lea were destined to be together, a promise made by their fathers and heard in Heaven. But Lea's father betrays this promise, kindling a conflict that will pit the modern against the secular and the devout against the divine. Mystical visions of the Holy Apple Field convince Hanan that their love can be the perfect "spiritual match", and to achieve it he unleashes untold powers of the Kabbala. Not even death can divide them; a powerful affirmation of love's infinite potential to transcend all obstacles.

About Niño, an orphanage boy in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador.