DSCHOINT VENTSCHR FILMPRODUKTION

Fiction

Esperanza by Sebastian Kutzli
2011, Drama, 85 Min. (D/CH)
Anna is 16 and living on the streets of Duisberg. When her best friend Leila is killed, she realizes that she has to do something to change her predicament. She is given the chance to live with Geena and Francis, high up in the Alps. This family takes in difficult children and teenagers and hopes to show Anna how to get a grip on her life.

Colours in the Dark by Sophie Heldman
2010, Drama, 90 Min. (CH/D)
A love story. The story of Anita and Fred who have been married for 50 years.The autumn of their lives has long begun, but they continue to live their love – self-determined, yet not always symbiotic.

Just A Summer by Tamara Staudt
2006, Comedy, 90min. (CH/D)
Difficult economic times lead Eva from Brandenburg to put her relationship on hold. She ends up working and sharing her fate with a complicated, multicultural group of people in the Swiss Alps. Here she meets Daniel, a stubborn Alpine farmer, and Mehmed, who would like to marry a German citizen, and experiences a cool but fabulous summer.

Slumming by Michael Glawogger
2005, Drama, 100 Min. (A/CH)
One day Kallmann wakes up and finds himself in an unknown world. He doesn`t understand a word, he doesn`t know anyone and the railway station in front of him seems to have shrunk. Sebastian and Alex did this for fun. They found the drunken street poet in front of the main station in Vienna, packed him in the boot of their car and dropped him at another station in a small Czech town.

Stratosphere Girl by M.X. Oberg
2004, Drama, 85min
Drawing manga-style comics is Angela's passion. Hungry for adventure, she spontaneously flies to Tokyo to work as a hostess. The city instantly casts its spell on her and Angela plunges into a dark story of cruelty and murder, of naïve young European women swallowed up into the brightly lit nights of downtown Tokyo.

Epstein's Night by Urs Egger
2002, Drama, 100 min. (CH/D/A)
The eighties: Three Jews believe recognizing in a catholic priest the SS-Officer of the concentration camp where they had been interned. But the confrontation takes a different course than expected. The reappearance of the past suddenly threatens to destroy the friendship between the old men.

Viehjud Levi by Didi Danquart
1998, Feature film, 90 min.
1935, Viehjud Levi kommt ins Tal um sein Vieh zu verkaufen und um das Herz von Lisbeth zu gewinnen. Doch hat sich seit dem letzten Jahr sehr Vieles verändert und Viehjud Levi kommt in Schwierigkeiten.
Produktion: Zero Film Koproduktion: Dschoint Ventschr, Lotus Film, SF DRS, SWR/Arte

Documentaries

Joschka and Sir Fischer by Pepe Danquart
2011, Documentary, 140 Min. ((D/CH))
Joschka Fischer is that rare animal -- a colorful German politician. In a land where dry, lengthy speeches are the rule, his witty candor stands out.

David wants to fly by David Sieveking
2010, Documentary, 97 Min. (D / CH / A)
The young filmmaker David Sieveking walks on his idols, David Lynch, path into the world of transcendental meditation (TM). Doing this he comes across the founder of the movement Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to whom already the Beatles went. The Indian guru made TM to one of the biggest esoteric organisations of the world. Its curs program promises world peace and yogic flying.

Dust by Hartmut Bitomsky
2007, Documentary, 90 Min. ((D/CH))
This feature documentary acts as essay, rhapsodizing about dust, which is everywhere and ever present and will not go away.

Shadow of the Holy Book by Arto Halonen
2007, Documentary, 90 Min. ((FI/CH/DK))
Why are some of the world's biggest international companies translating the «Ruhnama», an absurd government propaganda book from Turkmenistan, into their own languages? SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK exposes the immorality of international companies doing business with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan, thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech abuses - all in the name of profit and corporate greed.

The way of the warrior by Andreas Pichler
2008, Documentary, 88 Min. (D/CH/I)
Against the backdrop of the disturbing activities of today’s holy warriors, who are mainly Muslim and conduct their suicide attacks to become martyrs in a fight for theocracy, the film tells the story of the Christian holy warrior Michael.

Lost in Liberia by Luzia Schmid
2007, Documentary (theatrical), 93 min. (CH/D)
Leila wants to help. The 30 year old Irishwoman receives instruction for her first foreign assignment in the education center of the International Red Cross in Geneva. She is sent to Liberia, not exactly her dream destination. As a journalist there she reported about the civil war, and knows the destruction that 15 years of terror by warlords, the military and child soldiers have wrought.

FELTRINELLI by Alessandro Rossetto
2006, Documentary, 81 Min. (I/CH/D)
The Film tells the story of a great Italian publishing house «La Feltrinelli», about books and the work and passion that goes into their making, development and circulation. It’s a story that delves into the discovery of literature and into a world that has been changed by books.

Massacre by Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim & Hermann Theissen
2005, Documentary, 96 min. (D/CH/L/F)
1982 between 1,000 and 3,000 civilians were murdered in the two Lebanese Palestinian camps Sabra and Shatila. The perpetrators primarily originated from the ranks of the Forces Libanaises, Christian militia affiliated to Israel. A psycho-political study of the phenomenon of collective violence.

Conquistadors of Cuba by Arto Halonen
2005, Documentary, 90 min. (FI/CH)
Can a blind man bring the spirit of Che Guevara back to life? A film about the history of special old American cars, love and the man whose face shows the two sides of Cuba's soul.

Hell on Wheels by Werner Swiss Schweizer
2004, Documentary, 120 min. (D/F/CH)
The Tour de France, toughest cycle race in the world, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2003. Year after year millions of spectators across the globe are gripped by the large-scale event and watch images of mass finishes, agonising mountain ascents and wearing time trials.

My Sister Maria by Maximilan Schell
2002, Documentary, 90 min. (D/A/CH)
A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. The film parades over 70 cinema films and persues a biography of success, full of amours, affaires, depressions, and chases through the tabloid scene.
Coproduction: MFG, München, Epo Film

The Mirror of Maya Deren by Martina Kudlácek
2002, Documentary, 103 min. (A/CH/D)
With IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work.

Sailing the Seas by Johannes Holzhausen
2002, Documentary, 90 min. (A/CH/D)
The last voyage of the aircraft carrier Kiev, the pride of the former Soviet navy. The chronicle of a disintegrating era.

Friends in high places by Lindsey Merrison
2001, Documentary, 86 min. (D/CH)
Shamanism as survival strategy? Documentation of an extraordinary cult practised by transvestites and female shamans under the military dictatorship in Burma
Produktion: Lindsey Merrison
Co-Produktion: Dschoint Ventschr

B-52 by Hartmut Bitomsky
Assitant of Direction: Mike Jarmon
2000, Documentary, 90 min. (D/CH)
A parable about contemporary American culture based on the B-52 bomber plane, a symbol of American world domination.

Just Married by Jeanne Berthoud
1998, Documentary, 52 min.
The Shoppyland centre becomes a church for the "Couple of the Year 1998". Dreams of success, competition, expectations: beliefs and rituals from the limited world of managers.

Jean Ziegler by Ana Ruiz
1996, Documentary, 74 min. (B / CH)
When one begins to understand that social injustice, racism and hatred exist, one turns to Jean Ziegler's books. In this film he traces a double portrait: his own, and the world's.
Production: Morgane Films, Bruxelles, and Dschoint Ventschr

Malevic by Jutta Hercher
1994, Documentary, 60 min.
Ein facettenreiches und persönliches Portrait des Malers, der die Revolution auch in der Kunst verwirklichen wollte.