Jean Reusser

Didy (2024)

Gaël was five years old when his mother, Didy, died. Memories of her have since been lost in the fury of the civil wars, genocide and AIDS that ravaged Burundi and then Rwanda, precipitating her exile to Switzerland. Thirty years on, he ventures to reopen ...

Kick Ball Change (2024)

In the colorful world of rock acrobatics, a male and female dancer meet to prepare for a competition. During rehearsals, we discover their doubts, their conflicts, the beauty and difficulty of working together, but also the strong bond between the two frie ...

You Are Not Ivan Gallatin (2023)

One day, you receive a present. And then another. And on and on. Till the present isn't a present anymore. It's a nightmare. And all because YOU are not Ivan Gallatin. ...

Peripheric Love (2023)

Maria, a Mexican migrant, is pregnant. Her husband Giorgio is sterile. She conceals the pregnancy from him out of fear he might suspect infidelity. Caught between doubt and longing, both seek tenderness elsewhere. Fascinated by the unknown, their feelings ...

Chroma (2022)

To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves? ...

Is Anybody Home? (2021)

Swiss filmmaker Daniel Duqué has spent years knocking at the doors of the general public to disseminate films that invite to take another glance. But what is he really trying to achieve, while scouring towns and villages for so long, in this seemingly inn ...

La séparation des traces (2018)

Essay on the epic story of an ordinary man, a filmmaker, born in the beginning of the Second World War. From 1942 to 2016, his personal story and the world history, the history of his films, of cinema and the images that inspired him. Life and creation ent ...

Kokoschka: Work and Life (2017)

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was a rare individual who remained lucid and passionate throughout his long life. ...

CHoosing at Twenty (2017)

Between 1954-1962, one hundred to three hundred young French people refused to participate in the Algerian war. These rebels, soldiers or conscripts were non-violent or anti-colonialists. Some took refuge in Switzerland where Swiss citizens came to their a ...

Across the Sea (2015)

A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last ...

La Terre Promise (2014)

Philippe Savoy head of the choir at Saint Michael's College in Fribourg is preparing to take his fifty-five students to Palestine for a series of concerts. From Bethlehem to Ramallah, passing by Jerusalem and Hebron, between check points and churches, disc ...

Vibrato (2012)

Carnaval (2011)

Carnival in a small town: Margaux, Louisa and Théo are getting ready for a night out. They put on their costumes, drink too much. Each one of them apprehends this evening in a different way. A night like so many others… But on the next morning, their li ...

Traiettorie Invisibili (2011)

An old man travels telling his love story. But the story changes every time he meets somebody else. ...

The Impasse of Desire (2010)

When the distinguished psychiatrist Robert Block discovers that his young wife Carole has betrayed him, he is thrown completely off balance. His jealousy hinders him from caring for his patients as responsibly as he should, until Léo Debond , a psychotic ...

Soeurs (2010)

Au Café Romand (2008)

Gregory, is set to meet his fiancée and his prospective parents-in-law at a restaurant. He arrives late and the tension is palpable as they order dinner. Uneasy, Gregory excuses himself to the restroom. While enjoying sudden quietness, his life takes an a ...

Le train le plus difficile du monde (2007)

La séparation des traces (2018)

Essay on the epic story of an ordinary man, a filmmaker, born in the beginning of the Second World War. From 1942 to 2016, his personal story and the world history, the history of his films, of cinema and the images that inspired him. Life and creation ent ...