Patrick Becker

A Sisters' Tale (2024)

The filmmaker's sister, Nasreen, a housewife with two children, is married to a traditional and often unavailable husband. Despite the restrictions on women in Iran, she decides to pursue her lifelong dream of singing. ...

The Song of Others – A Search for Europe (2024)

Does history with all its nightmares have to keep repeating itself? What bolsters the thin layer that shields us from the abyss? ...

Ruäch – A Journey Into Yenish Europe (2023)

How do you film a minority that prefers to stay invisible, when you belong to the majority? Andreas Müller and Simon Guy Fässler travelled with the Yenish for six years—all over Europe and as far as the Grisons—faithfully and empathetically filming t ...

Wechselspiel – Wenn Peter Stamm schreibt (2023)

Two documentary filmmakers become the plaything of writer Peter Stamm and subject of the novel whose creation they actually wanted to document. ...

The Line (2023)

Margaret, 35, has a history of violent behaviour which has cost her a romantic relationship. She has moved back in with her mother Christina, a fragile, immature 55-year-old woman who blames Margaret, her firstborn, for ruining her dreams of a career as a ...

Semret (2022)

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. ...

A temporary story (2022)

In the middle of a midlife crisis, Sacha leaves his girlfriend and moves into his grandparents' Airbnb. There he meets Marjan, a married Iranian woman. The involuntary encounter becomes a moment of new possibilities. ...

Princess (2021)

When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl. ...

Arada (2021)

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses. ...

Burning Memories (2021)

At the age of 16, Alice was a victim of abuse. Fifty years later, this repressed experience unexpectedly makes its way back into her conscience. How is it possible to repress an incident for one's entire life? How did it happen that she made films and wrot ...

Zelihas Hütte (2020)

The Fever (2020)

Malaria has killed more people than all other diseases and wars on Earth combined. In Subsaharan Africa, one child still dies every 60 seconds. Nobody, including Big Pharma, the Gates Foundation, or the WHO, seems to believe that Africans have their own so ...

Volunteer (2020)

A film about the unprecedented Swiss grassroots movement of regular citizens who rise to aid thousands of refugees stranded at the European borders. In rich and safe Switzerland people from all backgrounds leave their regular life behind to support people ...

Isola (2019)

We enter the film, like we access Gorgona, by the sea. A rock bristling with greenery, surrounded by the dark blue waves of the Mediterranean. On this small island between Tuscany and Corsica, there is an agricultural penal colony. The prisoners held there ...

Cronofobia (2019)

A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity. ...

The Journey - A Story of Love (2019)

A husband acts as a caregiver to his quadriplegic wife. ...

The Dispossessed (2017)

An impressionistic journey that reveals the daily struggle of the hungry peasant class. ...

Blitzeis (2012)

Andreas is a journalist covering a story on Larissa, a patient with tuberculosis. At the hospital he meets a nurse called Yvonne. The encounter with the two women moves Andreas more than he wishes to admit. A short film about luck and its inevitable slippi ...

Fritz Hauser: Sound Explorer (2011)

A documentary about experimental drummer Fritz Hauser. ...

Flying Home (2011)

In 1939, Walter Otto Wyss emigrated to the USA after a tragic car accident. There he developed a revolutionary hybrid automobile that was never produced. After a love affair with an African-American dancer in Los Angeles he lived in Tokyo at the end of the ...

In the Garden of Sounds (2010)

«Nel giardino dei suoni» («In The Garden of Sounds») is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication. Nicola Bellucci tells the extraordinary story of Wolfgang ...

The House In The Park (2010)

Architects from Europe, America and China are invited to a Chinese provincial town. Within several months, they are to construct a park in Jinhua, intended to form the centre of a new district of that town. Where green fields now flourish and farmers ploug ...

Raw Beauty (2009)

In 1906, Dr. Morgenthaler, a psychiatrist at Bern Psychiatric Hospital, started to collect and photograph the drawings, paintings and various objects designed by his patients. This collection of works by schizophrenic artists would later prove an important ...

Pausenlos (2009)

The film portrays people with different time consciousness. A computer scientist works non-stop. Only when she gets home can she relax. A young employee suffers from sleep disorders and stress at work, and sinks into a state of decompensation. Ski trainer ...

A l'ombre de la montagne (2008)

Geld oder Leben (2008)

When Frank emphatically points out security problems in e-banking to his boss and tries to help an elderly customer recover money she lost on the Internet, he loses his job, is publicly defamed as a fraudster, and ends up in pretrial detention. ...