Persönliche Filmliste der 49. Solothurner Filmtage

Skinny Boy is a coming of age story about a teenager living with his abusive father on an isolated farm in Switzerland. When his secret relationship with a neighboring girl is discovered he is forced into a violent confrontation. Skinny Boy explores the difficulties of growing up in a rural community and an attempt to break away from the cycle of violence within.

A film about two siblings, Emilie and Jakob, about their deep love for each other, as well as their own happiness. Two things that do not always coincide.

Perfection-obsessed Bin Inspector, Hansjörg Sthäli, falls for the wrong girl, Lily Frei, a charming waitress at his local diner and a compulsive hoarder at home.

Tableau noir chronicles life at a one-room school in the Swiss mountains during an academic year, giving an endearing portrait of the twelve pupils aged six to twelve who share the same class and the devotion of the one teacher who taught there for forty-one years.

Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd. He will once again show off his skills at a local talent show. The winner will get the heart of the lower middle class, as well as a generous prize money.

Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments.

Mario is an unemployed engineer, a victim of the economic crisis. Discouraged by job advertisements that do not reflect his capabilities and demoralized by numerous financial deadlines, he decides to organize the heist of the century. The police has just stored in a military facility the largest quantity of cannabis ever seized in Switzerland, and it will be burned shortly. Mario plans to substitute it with common hay without anybody noticing: if the evidence simply disappears, so does the crime... Searching for trustworthy members of his gang, Mario brings together Ivan, Augusto, Leo, Monica and 'The Professor', each of them more desperate than the other and convinced to have found the 'green gold' that will change their lives.

Autumn 1947: Elisha, a young Jew, learns that he has been chosen to kill the hostage John Dawson, a captain in the British Army occupying Palestine. Will Elisha, himself a survivor of the holocaust, be able to commit this irrevocable act?

A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.

In a working class neighborhood in Casablanca, Abdellah, a homosexual teen, tries to build his own life within his big family, caught between an authoritarian mother and an older brother, who he adores.

On Christmas Eve, the prostitute Mia meets four different people for different reasons.

April 1974. The Federal Councellor, annoyed by the anti-establishment tone of The French speaking Swiss radio channel, imposes "safer" subjects on Philippe de Roulet, the programs director. To please him, de Roulet sends to Portugal a team composed of Julie, a dedicated feminist, Cauvin, a former war reporter sidelined since he started losing memory, and Bob, a sound technician close to retirement, with the mission to report on the impact of Swiss aid to the country. They comply more or less reluctantly, but the results of their investigation are so pathetic that they decide to drop the whole thing and to drive back to Lausanne. This is exactly the time when their path crosses that of a trio of Belgian journalists who tell them that a full-scale revolution is under way...

Marie, a subdued young woman drawn to luxury and glitter, meets Olivier, a wealthy nightclub owner who teaches her how to make easy money, unbeknownst to her skater boyfriend Vincent and his autistic, mute brother Mika.