Fascinations

La notte un posto sicur... Hamid, a 25-year-old boy, survived the escape from Eritrea, with the intention of arriving in Switzerland by his brother Yemane, but Natale, a Sicilian fisherman, advises him not to continue the journey as an illegal immigrant and with his wife, they decide to host him at their restaurant, in exchange for help in the kitchen. After Hamid's long journey through Italy and numerous adversities, he manages to reach Basel ...

Meta-Mecano The Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta, opened in 1996, five years after the Swiss sculptor's death. META MECANO is a poetic depiction of the genesis of this mono-graphic museum, from the builders' first plans and Mario Botta's designs to its construction and the assembly of Tinguely's fragile mobile sculptures. In interviews with Mario Botta, Tinguely's wife Niki de Saint Phalle, museum director Pontus Hultén and Tinguely himself, the film goes on to explore the mission of museums and of art in general today. META MECANO is a unique document on the significance of the artist Jean Tinguely and on the role that museums play in our day and age.

Der Irland-Krimi: Famili... Abbie Campbell is in prison for murder, she stabbed her sleeping husband. The background to the brutal act was never clarified, Abbie had refused any statement at the time. Criminal psychologist Cathrin Blake has to prepare an expert opinion on the young woman.

The Wanderer Kim Byeong Yeon's grandfather Kim Ik Soon is the person who surrendered to Hong Gyeong Rae's birth. As a result, Byeong Yeon did not get a job title even though he had the Jangwon grade system. Frustrated, he puts on a hat and begins a wandering life. Wherever Kim Satgat goes, poems containing satire and ridicule about the world remain.

Weekend per due (con del... Caterina is a girl victim of amnesia, who finds herself in an unknown village without being able to remember how she got there. In reality he doesn't even have any memory of his own identity, so he accepts the collaboration of Tommaso Carta - a local writer - to try to unravel the mystery. At the same time, the two will also be involved in a strange murder case, perhaps connected to Caterina's memory loss.

Bullet Trip A man and a woman from Shinjuku take a bullet trip to the "port town closest to God. The man hides the true purpose of his trip from his blonde girlfriend, whom he brought along by force.

Trio Deep within rural Mongolia, a person with Down syndrome is rarely seen, but if recognised, is ostracised or stigmatised by society. A boy called Jam with trisomy grows up with the help of his loving mother, who chose to live at a distance from people in order to raise her son peacefully.

Kranti Kranti Rayanna, a business tycoon in Europe is invited by his favorite teacher to attend the Centenary celebrations of the school. Kranti begins a revolution and takes the fight on with Salatri Group trying to takeover 12,000 government schools and privatize them.

Under Water Ever since she found out her husband Evert was having an affair, Foekje has been living in a hotel she cannot afford. In desperate need of money, she has a plan. The area surrounding her mother’s house is being bought by the government for large sums of money, and Foekje can collect this money by having her mother Nel sign a power of attorney. Unfortunately, Nel is a doomsday prepper who lives in her basement in anticipation of the apocalypse.

Isaac Asimov: A Message ... With over 500 publications to his name, from the 50’s to the 80’s, he had anticipated computers and electronic gadgets invading the household, autonomous vehicles and man’s withdrawal from nature. Science fiction and anticipation stories have never been as popular as today. It inspires literature, drama series, films, even politics and the military. As the world we live in faces an unprecedented technological acceleration, we are more concerned than ever by the issue of our future.