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After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Since he is 9 years old, David Miller has known the date of the day he dies. As it nears, he meets those he cares about for the last time, obsessed by the idea of learning how to tie a tie and by the the fall into water of the Quebecker filmmaker Claude Jutra. Shot with a cellphone over a decade, from Lausanne to Ouagadougou, Low Cost (Claude Jutra) is a small fiction about the market value of a human life in a time when everything is discounted. Life is priceless, death, however, negotiates…
An ensemble portrait of the 2011 Swiss federal elections. Following the fate of three candidates from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the film sheds light on the richness and complexity of the political ritual.
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
Dr. Hildbrand is about to retire as other young doctors take over. At the intersection of generations and practices, Les Guérisseurs questions the vocation and profound meaning of caring for others.
In an outlying district of Nyon, a self-managed after-school centre offers children an island of freedom. Founded by an association of women volunteers, this atypical centre has survived 30 years of urban and social change in the district and continues to offer a rare, idealistic and joyfully disorganised space. The film will be screened as a Relaxed session.
