Ruth Schwegler

15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is.

A crazy referendum throws Switzerland into a state of emergency. By the acceptance of the initiative “No Bilangue” there should be from now on only one national language: French. Many German-speaking Swiss are therefore having a crisis.

Paul Oswald is very proud of his bomb shelter. An officer from the Department of Civil Defense assigns his neighbor to the shelter. The idea drives Paul insane as he doesn’t want to live together with the neighbor.

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe.

An african refugee starts working for a swiss family.

After the Zurich heist of the century, the justice system uses spectacular methods to recover a 100 million painting. Stolen works of art of almost priceless value, a Serbian mafia gang and undercover investigators: the docu-drama series "It happened on... " tells how the Zurich justice system uses cinematic methods to recover two works of art, a 100-million Cezanne and a Degas, which were stolen by armed thieves from the Bührle Museum in Zurich on February 10, 2008. An undercover investigator infiltrated the Serbian mafia gang, invitations to a luxury weekend in St. Moritz followed and the stolen paintings were finally returned thanks to a faked deal worth millions.

The film follows an emotionally harrowing journey endured by young gay photographer Alex, after he is diagnosed with peritoneal cancer. Abandoned by his brother and his on-again, off-again lover, Alex is forced to face his mortality and the loss of his sexual identity through sheer resilience. A devastating, but ultimately hopeful story of survival and resolve.

A single mother of three children lives a chaotic and not very wealthy life in which her oldest daughter tries to manage everything and wants to find a decent guy for her mum.

Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.

Pensioner Roli comes to Fareed's assistance when the Syrian refugee is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife. Together they stumble into a bewildering forest of Swiss bureaucracy to which Roli finds beautifully simple answer.

Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.

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It was meant to be just a light-hearted adventure: After long years behind walls, Spooky and Linda escape from their psychiatric institution to breathe some fresh air in the outside world. Spooky wants to invite Linda for lunch in the restaurant he often went to as a child. But life is definitively more complicated outside the walls. And everything gets even more confusing with Spooky’s friend Carl, who unexpectedly joins the company. A small adventure becomes quite a big challenge. In an unknown world they are confronted to questions they are not used to face. They would need trust in themselves and in their companion. How can they find their way?

Swiss allotment gardener Livius is murdered in his garden on French soil. The case must therefore be investigated by both the Swiss and French police. This leads to friction between the two forces. To make matters worse, Hunkeler has to cut short his vacation.

In a single humiliating day, Silvia is fired from her job despite being a few years away from retirement, a policeman fines her during a traffic check, and the director of the church choir takes away her solo part. During the Ave Maria rehearsal, Silvia decides to endure in an act of silent resistance.