Edoardo Nerboni

A visual journey inside the majestic building of Locarno's Gran Hotel, long-closed. The ghosts of those who resided in it during the past decades still live inside.

Radio Gwendalyn is facing a crucial challenge: professionalization. It is the first community radio station in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland to obtain the status of a complementary non-profit radio station. Through this story, the documentary explores the broader context in which the station operates: a network of often invisible yet deeply interconnected realities. It is also a journey into the lives of the people who keep the radio alive, their stories, daily challenges, and the motivations that drive them forward. The film follows the Radio Gwen community through a year of transformation: from the complete renovation of the studios in Chiasso to a new internal organization and the launch of a renewed programming schedule. This recognition defines the station’s mission: to fill the gaps left by commercial and public broadcasters, offering an authentic service rooted in the local community.

In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a late-night bodega. Their unexpected bond takes on a romantic tone and brings solace to these two superheroes who are powerless in the face of oppression.

A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in Małgorzata's law firm. The women embark on their first first trip in many years. It quickly turns out that one of them is terminally ill and her destination is Switzerland, where euthanasia is possible.

Claire Ghiringhelli, a Swiss Paralympic athlete, faces sacrifices and challenges in pursuit of her dream to represent Switzerland in rowing at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. The documentary captures her dedication, physical and mental struggles, and the determination that drives her to overcome every obstacle on the path to the most significant achievement of her career.

The village of Mboro makes a living from fishing, and young people are forced to abandon their studies to help in their parents in the sea. The "CIC" gives space for young people to continue their studies and enter the workforce.

A difficult relationship unfolds across the different floors of an apartment, where distance, encounters, and tension gradually transform the domestic space into an emotional landscape.

What makes us get up in the morning and go to work? What drives us to retrace the same path every day that takes us away from home and takes us to the office? Where, if there is, the limit between passion and work, can they be the same thing? Many questions are asked every day, following a routine that has now become obvious and natural. But Mirto doesn't wake up with these questions ... or maybe he does? The management of a bar in the past, and now for many years in the center of Lugano to make couples of lovers dream and cheer music lounges with its instruments.

A raw and necessary journey inside the reality of crack cocaine use in Switzerland, a growing phenomenon that - which started on the streets of America's great metropolises - is now taking root in Swiss urban centers as well. The documentary explores the cities of Lugano, Zurich, Lausanne, and Geneva, mapping a silent epidemic advancing among the margins of society. The film gives voice to social workers, street mediators, managers of “consumption rooms” and night shelters: professionals who, every day, face the reality of crack trying to reduce the damage, protect lives, and offer alternatives. Between direct testimonies, urban environments on the edge, and glimpses caught in the night, the documentary shows a hidden Switzerland, vulnerable, but also full of humanity and concrete attempts at change.