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Jack, who has all but failed at life, dreams of a fresh beginning abroad. Instead, he unexpectedly has to take care of his hated father Paul, who he has not seen since childhood. Paul suffers from Alzheimer's and wants to make peace with his son while he still can. But Jack has very different plans for Paul. Two worlds collide, and a journey to Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, turns into an odyssey back to a painfully suppressed past.
Marcel Huber, an amiable family man without much assertiveness, accidentally takes his wife Jasmin and children Nicole and Sämi on vacation to wicked Amsterdam instead of sunny Rome. To make matters worse, their hotel turns out to be a lousy flophouse. The house is in trouble and they are in danger of having to cancel their vacation. In his futile search for a new place to stay, Marcel meets the self-confident Dutchman Jaap. He finds him a good hotel in no time at all. Marcel is very impressed by Jaap, who seems to master life in every situation. Marcel wants to be like him. Jaap soon gives the Swiss family man the opportunity to become an investor in a new nightclub project.
Whether in rock, pop, rap or slam: the people of Bern have dominated the dialect music scene in German-speaking Switzerland for many years. Why does Bern rock Switzerland?
Imagine Switzerland's national soccer team playing the finals of the EURO 2008 and the TV channel turns black! Apltraum is a comical fairytale about soccer, dreams and the belief that the impossible can come true
A documentary tribute to Switzerland's number one national sport: Swiss wrestling. With a wink but nonetheless serious, Zurich resident and wrestling novice Beat Schlatter guides us through the film as presenter. In search of the soul and fascination of wrestling, he tentatively explores a world completely foreign to him, one marked by a dividing line between city and country, which he attempts to bridge.
Being a politician is a tough job. Federal Councillor Alois Mumenthaler knows this too and makes his way through the sessions as a grumpy and old-fashioned representative of the species. He is pretty much against everything and launches a rigorous anti-drug campaign that turns out to be a flop. His party no longer wants him and his wife even less so. He has also been diagnosed with glaucoma. The man is slowly going blind. A visit to the doctor reveals that cannabis, of all things, has a healing effect and could fight the disease. But a federal councillor and cannabis don't mix. Nevertheless, it is the only way for Mumenthaler to avoid complete blindness and keep his hopes of an operation alive.
