DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION

Augusto Boal by Anita Blumer
2013, Documentary, 52 Min.
The Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal is one of the most prominent representatives of political intervention theatre in the 20th century. In the 1960s he developed a theatre method which he called the “Theatre of the Oppressed,” which results in a socially liberating experience. His method redefined the relationship between the actors and spectators in that spectators are urged to emancipate and liberate themselves from their passive role. The film illustrates what this means in practice using various theatre groups from all over the world, including Switzerland, as an example.

GEYSIR AND GOLIATH by Alexander J. Seiler
2010, Documentary Portrait,
Karl Geiser (1898-1957): Swiss sculptor, drawer and photographer. Torn between a great love for life and profound self-doubts he died a solitary wolf. A portrait about a forgotten artist with a vulcanic temperament who was called «the geyser» by his friends.

young and yenish by Karoline Arn and Martina Rieder
2009, Documentary,
«young and yenish» portrays young Yenish folk who, against all social obstacles, «live» their very own nomadic culture. This documentary questions why increasingly more young Swiss gipsies have taken to the road, and what their future may look like.

The Train Station and its Angel by Samir
2008, Serie, 60 Min.
Main station Zurich. Intersection, shopping centre and cultural event hall - What is it that makes this main station to one of the most interesting train station of Europe?

Dirty Paradise by Daniel Schweizer
2009, Documentary, 76 Min. (CH/FR)
The Wayana people, French Indians of Amazonia are cursed by living in a region rich in gold. The uncontrolled exploitation of this wealth has brought about a severe deterioration of the forest’s ecosystem, the irreversible pollution of streams, as well as countless violations against fundamental human rights.

YA SHARR MOUT by Sabine Gisiger
2007, TV Documentary, 70 Minutes
The film « Ya Sharr Mout» tells the story of an adventurous Swiss-Arabian musical project – the quest for greater differentiation in times of the cultural struggle between the Orient and the Occident invoked by all sides.

La Reina del Condón by Silvana Ceschi & Reto Stamm
2007, Documentary, 75 min. (CH/IRL)
Monika Krause, a young citizen of the GDR, falls in love with a Caribbean captain. Twenty years later, as a govermental sexual educator, she sets the sexual revolution in motion. A film about potent female agitators, staunch machos and Caribbean love life.

Hidden Heart by Cristina Karrer & Werner Schweizer
2008, Documentary (theatrical), 90 Min. ((CH/D/RSA))
Christian Barnard from Capetown didn't write the great success-story of the first heart transplantation in 1967 alone. Hamilton Naki, a black man, was equally part of the sensational operation. «Hidden Heart» tells the story of two men, glamour, injustice and uprising.

Müetis Kapital by Karoline Arn & Martina Rieder
2006, Documentary (TV),
Farming the old-fashioned way the yearning for a simple, agricultural life is experiencing a new boom in reality shows. The portrayal of Ruth Seiler-Schwab, a non-conformist farmer shows an authentic and exciting aspect of farming life in Switzerland, which is frequently obscured by an overemphasis of folklore and Farmers Breakfasts organised by the Swiss People's Party.

Bhüet di Gott by Marcel Zwingli
2006, TV Documentary, 55min
In October 2005 Reverend Ernst Sieber, 78, Swiss, pioneer in the field of work with the homeless, travels to Afghanistan with a few boxes of medicaments. His mission: to provide direct help for the hospital of Jaghatu and for the orphans in the village. Reverend Sieber in the land of the Taliban: a suggestive image that is both intriguing and irritating.

Forests of Hope by Iris Disse, David Höhner (Ecuador/Indonesia) Cristina Karrer (Kenya)
2005, TV-Documentary (series),
A view of promising projects in the social and economic sphere of the forest, forest use and sustainable development. Based on the book of the same title by Christian Küchli. Further projected series include: Scandinavia, Germany, China.

Gambit by Sabine Gisiger
2005, Documentary, 107min (CH/D)
In 1976 a reactor close to the north Italian town of Seveso explodes. In the aftermath highly poisonous dioxin leaks in the atmosphere. In Monza in 1983 chemist Jörg Sambeth is sentenced to five years in prison as one of the main guilty parties. A story about lies, truths and deception.

White Terror by Daniel Schweizer
2005, Documentary (theatrical), 90min (CH/D/F/SF)
A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, North America and Russia. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war and segregation.

ZwischenSprach by Samir
2004, TV Documentary, 52min
Culture has long been quietly influenced by globalization. Language as a harbinger, a catalyst, but also as an obstacle in multi cultural modern society.

Muridi aus Zürich by Silvana Ceschi & Rolf Frey & Reto Stamm
2004, TV Documentary, 30 min.
Muridi is fourteen years old, his parents are fugitives from Somalia in Switzerland. Muridi loves football and hip-hop, at home he takes care of his four siblings and every Saturday he visits the Koran-school.
Because he cares so much about peace, he learned to be the school’s peacemaker, to find peaceful solutions for conflicts at the schoolyard.

The Last Wall by Silvana Ceschi
2004, TV-Documentary, 52 min.
A portrait of people who dont let political and social stumbling blocks upset their way to an independent and unified Republic of Cyprus.

Voyages, Voyages Engiadina by Werner Swiss Schweizer
2003, TV Documentary, 45min (CH / F)
A look at the Engadine away from the well-trodden paths of ritzy mass tourism including atmospheric images of the four seasons. Accompanied by an excursus about the various international films, which made use of the Engadines scenery.

Skinhead Attitude by Daniel Schweizer
2003, Documentary, 90min / 56min (TV version) (CH/D/F)
A fascinating road movie tracing history and origin of a subculture of youth that is known as one of the most radical and contradictory of our time.

Homeland by Sabine Gisiger
2003, Documentary, 52 min.
In 2002, the organizers of the celebrated Swiss National Exhibition invited scientists and artists from faraway countries to come to Switzerland. They were asked to travel around Switzerland on their own for three weeks to gain an impression of the country and its people. Their experiences and encounters may confirm certain clichés but offer surprises where least expected.

Tarifa Traffic by Joakim Demmer
2003, Documentary, 60 min. (CH/D)
Thousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants.

Forget Baghdad by Samir
2002, Documentary, 112 min. (CH/D)
A filmic reflection about the stereotypes of "the Jew" and " the Arab" through one hundred years of film, linked with the biographies of four extraordinary people: Iraqui-Jewish communists.

Von Werra by Werner Swiss Schweizer
2002, Documentary, 104 min. (CH / D)
Franz von Werra, a Swiss citizen, became legendary as a fighter pilot in Nazi Germany. In 1957 Hardy Krüger played von Werra in THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY. In his search for common and contradictory features, Werner Swiss Schweizer uncovers the extraordinary story of an unusual relationship between two siblings.

Camenisch by Daniel von Aarburg
2001, TV-Documentary, 87 min.
In the 1970s and 1980s Marco Camenisch made the national headlines. In his struggle to save his homeland from destruction he resorted to using bombs and guns and became a legend.

Our Jew by Daniel Wildmann
2000, TV Documentary, 26 min.
Binjamin Wilkomirskis book Fragments: Memories of a Childhood 19391948 about his alleged childhood spent in a concentration camp was a global success in 1995. Three years later it emerges that the experiences described in the book are a sham.

Yugodivas by Andrea Staka
2000, Documentary, 60min
Five New York divas up close. The thing that in addition to their friendship links these women, a painter, an actress and three musicians, is their shared homeland, former Yugoslavia. Looked at from this distance, far away from the events of the war, a surprisingly different view emerges.

Do It by Sabine Gisiger & Marcel Zwingli
2000, Documentary, 97 min.
Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary underground and made the headlines as a top Swiss terrorist.

Eurotravelling by Stephan Wicki & Karin Gemperle
2000, TV documentary, 52 min.
Europe in 12 days including visits to six countries. This is a standard package offered by Japanese travel agencies. After the whistle-stop tour the main souvenir the tourists are left with are photographs. What view do these photos reveal?

ID Swiss by Fulvio Bernasconi, Christian Davi, Nadia Fares, Wageh George, Kamal Musale, Thomas Thümena and Stina Werenfels
1999, Documentary, 90min
Life in multicultural Switzerland: based on their own personal experiences and with a touch of irony, seven young filmmakers examine their view of Switzerland.

Projecziuns tibetanas by Samir
1998, TV documentary, 24 min.
A Tibetan family who has lived in exile in the Engadine for 35 years considers its history and its presence in the media. A portrait.

Crossover by Thomas Tielsch
1996, Documentary, 90min (D/CH)
Through the local music and rituals of southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the film approaches the issue of cultural identity.

Noel Field by Werner Swiss Schweizer
1996, Documentary, 104 min.
The American Noel Field was a key figure of the show trials of Eastern Europe. He himself was imprisoned without trial from 1949 to 1955, but remained in the East after his release. Why? The mystery of Noel Field.

Take off from the Sand by Wageh George
1996, Documentary, 60 min.
In Egypt in the 1930s the young Loftia makes her dream come true: she swaps her veil for a pair of pilot's goggles. The film traces the life of this daring pioneer.

Motor Nasch by Sabine Gisiger & Marcel Zwingli
1995, Documentary, 85 min.
Six women from four generations look back at their life in Moscow: from creation to dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Babylon 2 by Samir
1993, Documentary, 91/80 min.
«Half and half» is the most frequent reply from «secondos» and children of emigrants, when asked whether they feel Swiss or foreign.

Dynamit am Simplon by Werner Swiss Schweizer
1989, Documentary, 104 min.
Just before the end of World War II the Nazis wanted to blow up the Simplon Tunnel, which at the time was the longest tunnel in the world. A communist guerrilla commander, a Swiss railway worker, a catholic priest and the Swiss secret service successfully prevented the destruction of the tunnel.

Fremd geboren by Esther van Messel
1997, Documentary, 60 min.
Based on the book Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski. Daniel Ganzfrieds inquiries later led to the uncovering of Wilkomirskis story as a sham.