UPCOMING
HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE
in distribution
In the heart of a European metropolis, an unexploded World War II bomb ignites a cascade of fear and self-reflection. As residents confront anxiety and uncertainty, unlikely alliances emerge amidst the chaos.
HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE is a multi-layered narrative that delves into the human condition against a backdrop of societal unease. It intertwines stories of resilience and connection in a city on edge.
Fiction Feature
Script/Director: Kerstin Polte
a Tamtam Film production (Germany) in co-production with Catpics, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Distribution Germany: MissingFilms
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​World Premiere: Filmfest Hamburg​
SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS | SEASON 2
in distribution
SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS is a coming-of-age-action-drama series about a group of young athletes and their mentors, all struggling to succeed in a highly competitive total institution: an elite boarding school for future world ski-champions.
Fiction Series 8 x 45'
Creator: Clemens Aufderklamm
Script: Samuel Schultschik, Marlene Rudy, Marie-Therese Thill, Christian Eichtinger
In co-production with Superfilm Austria, ORF, SRF/SRG
World Sales: ORF Entrerprises
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BATS AND BUGS
in production
Animation Short
Script/Director: Lena von Döhren
In co-production with SRF/SRG
When a lantern is lit on a country road in the jungle, a group of insects goes crazy.
This is just in time for the hungry bats in an adjacent cave.
QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE
in financing
QUEEN OF THE STONE AGE accompanies the charismatic and contentious archaeologist Bettina Schulz-Paulsson with her unconventional research family as a road movie across Europe. The film brings to light the political dimension of our view of the past, and is as exciting, entertaining, human, and sensual as no archaeological film before.
Documentary Feature
Script/Director: David Bernet
PLITSCHPLATSCH FOREVER!
in financing
Pola saves the Plitschplatsch swimming pool from closure and opens herself up to new encounters and experiences.
Fiction Feature
Script: Sabina Gröner
Director: Natascha Beller
THE FOOL OR THE HOLYMAN
in financing
Two siblings set out to unravel the truth behind their father, a man with many faces, Colonel Albert Bachmann — Switzerland’s most controversial Cold War spy. Through three conflicting narratives, they attempt to piece together the life of a man who was seen as a hero, fool and something much darker.
Documentary Feature
Script: Daire Collins & Philippe Grob
Director: Daire Collins
THE LITTLE DIFFERENCE
in financing
Remy, a young fitness trainer, finally wants to achieve his goal of professional success and personal happiness with a wife and a family. At the beauty clinic, he meets Lea, a fun-loving trans woman who doesn't fit into Remy’s desired norm - and the other way round. Too bad they fall in love.
Fiction Feature
Script: Fanny Nussbaumer, Ivana Lalovic, Sabine Pochhammer
Director: Ivana Lalovic
LEGAL GUILT | THE DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
in financing
In legal circles, female defence lawyers are considered «the savages» as their clients are often «troublemakers». In the public perception, they represent the «guilty».LEGAL GUILT offers a rare glimpse into the closed world of criminal justice, questions the unequal power relations in criminal law and tells of the human side of the work of four female defence lawyers in a male-dominated world.
Documentary Series 4 x 50'
Script: Dario Schoch, Philippe Grob, Felix Hergert, Lisa Gerig
Co-Director: Felix Hergert
MY FUTURE FRIENDS
in development
For Nola (13), robots are better friends than humans. Ostracized as a nerd at school, she develops her late father's last robot into a friend. When Nola gains a real friend in beatbox talent Spocky (13), she learns the limits and risks of AI and robots.
Fiction Feature
Script: Bettina Schmid
Director: Michael Schaerer
THE GUARD
in development
After a fellow Swiss Guard makes an attempt on the life of the Pope, the Pontiff's new bodyguard investigates, coming up against powerful shadowy Vatican clerics desperate to supress the truth.
Fiction Series
Script: Stéphane Mitchell, Christian Johannes Koch
Director: Christian Johannes Koch
ALTSTETTEN
in development
Aspiring rapper AMI must keep her relationship with her estranged father ANDY, a failed rap legend, a secret when the two clash on a casting show. As she tries to find her own voice in a chorus of opinions, Andy's chaotic attempt to repair the father-daughter relationship sends her career and values into turmoil.
Fiction Feature
Script: Mariama Djité
Co-Director: Martin Skalsky, Wero Rodowicz
THE DAY I BECAME BRAVE
in development
Linea has good grades and is a well-behaved girl. None of this applies to Aaron. They only have one thing in common: they are always chosen last in sports. A clever fox lures them into the woods, and they realize that they have more in common than they thought.
Fiction Feature
Script: Eveline Stähelin
Director: Ruth Olshan
MIRROR WORLDS
Fiction Feature
Script: Christa Capaul
Idea & Research: Tanja Meding
in development
Zurich, 1853, Emilie Spyri, the niece of famous author Johanna Spyri, is born into one of the most exciting time in Swiss society.
Strong willed and extremely gifted, Emilie is the apple of her father's eye, but has a very different idea of life than society accepts her to have. She not only marries the freethinker Walter Kempin against her fathers will but also enrolls at the law school at the University of Zurich. A decision with far reaching consequences as her father withholds her dowry.
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In spite of having three children, she soon earns her doctorate as the first Swiss and European female lawyer ever! Thus she has already exceeded too many limits from a male perspective. Her will to change society, especially the status of women, must be broken.
FIO LINA AND THE MAESTRO
in development
The three episodes of Fio Lina and the Maestro tell of the adventures of the music witch Fio Lina with the maestro of an instrument orchestra in the world of classical music in a humorous, warm-hearted way.
Animation Series
Script: Matthias Keilich
Character Design: Lena von Döhren
Background Design: Oswald Iten
Based on the THE WITCH AND THE MAESTRO, A Musical Fairy Tale by Howard Griffiths.
In co-production with SRF/SRG