Swiss retrospective : Documentaries
This year, the Festival honours Switzerland through 3 programs: one program dedicated to the French-Swiss moviemaker Ursula Meier who received lots of primes, a second program dedicated to the Swiss documentary and a third program to promote the short films of the students from the ECAL.
In collaboration with 
Salade Russe
Eileen Hofer
Pays Switzerland
Genre Documentary
2017 - 26’ - Black & White
Between melancholia and fights, between laughter and anger, six members of former USSR share a dinner. They are trying to remember the good days of the Soviet Union, a lost universe. They used to be unified with a common education but today they are from six different countries with six different languages.
Lucens
Marcel Barelli
Pays Switzerland
Genre Animation, Documentary
2015 @en - 7’ - Color
The forgotten story of the nuclear reactor in the Swiss town of Lucens, which was switched off a year after activation due to an incident.
Bunkers
Anne-Claire Adet
Pays Switzerland
Genre Documentary
2016 - 14’03" - Color
Footage taken from refugees mobile phones describe the agonising and suffocating experience of Mohammad in an underground shelter in Geneva where, with many others, he was sent upon arrival.
Cairo 52
Dominique Birrer
Pays Switzerland
Genre Animation, Documentary
2014 - 5' - Color
On Friday 11th may 2001, police forces raided a disco on a boat, the Queen Boat and arrested 52 homosexuals. They were convicted of debauchery and put into jail for several years.
Digital Immigrants
Dennis Stauffer & Norbert Kottmann
Pays Switzerland
Genre Documentary
2016 - 21' - Color
A group of senior citizens is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Rakijada
Nikola Illic
Pays Serbia, Switzerland
Genre Documentary
2016 - 18’51 - Color
Every year, a small, pugnacious Serbian village holds the Rakijada - a schnapps Olympiad. This red thread allows us to examine the Serbian soul from a new point of view, while never losing sight of typical Balkan humour.