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A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own six children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother for her grandchildren as she never did that for Rita.

Cesare, a former smuggler of illegal aliens, finds the murdered body of his godson Fausto in a remote valley. Considered the prime suspect by the cops, he will be forced out of his isolation to confront the painful truth behind the crime.

Semret a single mom works at a local Zurich hospital, she does everything to ensure a better life for her daughter Joe. When Semret was wrongfully accused at the hospital she stand up for her rights, so as not to lose everything she loves.

Follows Mateo Sobode Chiqueno and his recorded stories, songs and testimonies of his Ayoreo people on an old tape recorder.

Beatrix lives in her cousin's apartment in Berlin, where she sleeps long into the day. Contrary to her lack of ambition in pursuing a professional career and her refusal of getting committed to a serious relationship, she really cares about her physical appearance and regularly visits an expensive beauty salon to get her hair done. But on this day, on the way to her hair appointment, some cheeky students in the subway push her out of her comfort zone and events take an unwanted turn for Beatrix.

El tiempo nublado is a supremely personal film about a universal issue, we all have to face: What are we going to do with our parents, once they are old and ill?

Summer of 1633. A soldier guards a corpse at the gallows. The area is known for its witches, rumored to be stealing corpses and using body parts for their strange rituals. The soldier falls asleep and awakes to find the body has disappeared. He panics and flees into the forest where he comes across a seductive woman. She lures him to her house where a dark and sinister night unfolds. Lust, fear and delusion mingle into a frenzied night as the mysterious woman proposes an unexpected solution to the problem of the missing corpse.

A compassionate portrait of people growing up with serious disabilities in Switzerland and Germany. What does the type of care these young people receive, and their position in society, tell us about the Western world?

A bewitching and moving portrait of a great artist living between dream and reality, truth and fiction and life and death.

The precipitous fall of an achiever and his inability to work: the psychiatric diagnosis reads «depressive exhaustion», the symptom commonly known as «burnout». But the time period after the major collapse often proves to be even more insidious, as is portrayed by Matthias N.'s story. In the course of his nearly two-year healing process, the former manager's fear of failing again in his profession triggers recurrences of new minor «burnouts». Will he ever find his way again in the working context?

Four young people with mental or cognitive impairments want to get into the primary labor market. "DOK" accompanies them and shows: When everyone involved work for the benefit of that, an astonishing dynamic can unfold.