Bruno Moll

Retracing the trip to Tunisia that painter Paul Klee took in 1914, Tunisian filmmaker and painter Nacer Khemir leads viewers on a journey of discovery into Arabian culture.

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The theater group Valendas from the Safiental in the canton of Grisons adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt's grotesque novel.

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The painter from Solothurn (CH) Frank Buchser was sent to the USA in 1866 to paint a large painting of the «Heroes of the Civil War» for the future Council of States Hall in Bern. Initially Buchser was busy portraying politicians and generals in the spirit of his clients. More and more, however, he became interested in the Indians expelled to the reservations and in the living conditions of the slaves who had just been freed. Years earlier, fascinated by Moorish culture, Frank Buchser rides disguised as a Turkish sheikh to the Moroccan town of Fez, which is forbidden to Christians under death penalty. The Swiss filmmaker Bruno Moll tells the two adventurous journeys of the rebellious and controversial artist.

The story of a man from the jungles of Ghana. Decades later he studies in St. Gallen and fights for the fulfilment of his dream: to build a railway in Ghana. In the film other Ghanaians reflect on questions such as: what does making progress really mean from an African perspective?

Documentary about the ethnically diverse young girls of a female soccer team in the Bethlehem quarter of Bern, Switzerland's capital city.

Documentary feature about Swiss mountaineers and their customs and traditions, including the so-called 'Alpsegen' (alp blessing), a way of invoking God and the Virgin Mary to protect them from natural disasters.

A documentary with fictional elements, which is based on 140 years of history of the company and the family of the global company Bally based in Switzerland. Images from the daily work in the shoe factory and the Schönenwerd region, reproduced pictures with the men of Bally as actors, historical photographic material, an interview with the manager of today constitute, and others, which combine to form an exciting whole thanks to a clever assembly.

Barbara, a fifty-year-old lesbian whose lifespan has taken her through correction homes, mental hospitals, prisons and bouts of prostitution, approached Bruno Moll suggesting that she made a film of her life. Moll agrees and hires an actress, Serena Way. To interpret episodes in Barbara’s past. Barbara has in mind a Hollywood-style bio starring an actress on the order of Susan Hayward dramatically telling her story of a life ruined by bourgeois standards. The result is a semi-documentary mixing black and white segments of Barbara and Serena discussing the project with color scenes depicting little stories from the 1950’s, the heyday of bourgeois existence.

The immortal songs of Franz Schubert. What do they imply today? And where do they belong? According to well-known pianist and conductor Marino Formenti: not in the world's great concert halls. At least not only. With five musical laymen he tried to find another kind of truth in this music. Swiss documentary filmmaker Bruno Moll joined him in this unusual experiment.