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For mysterious reasons, two watchmen are made to guard access to the river in an area of Lausanne where retirees and immigrant families live. Through the different people they encounter, a territory takes shape and a friendship is born. Tizian Büchi creates a fable—part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism—to subtly question our surveillance society.

From painkillers to contraceptives to opioids, the world of pharmaceuticals keeps promising that the ultimate solution and answer to the universal quest for happiness can be found in the form of a little pill. The documentary takes the audience on a journey around the globe and, using the example of six people and their medicines, questions the comprehensive role that pharmaceutical agents have come to play in our society.

Rome in the 1970s, the Borghetti family has just moved into one of the many new residential complexes built in the Italian capital. Despite this recent move, to the top floor of a new apartment overlooking the entire city, Clara and Felice are no longer in love, but they can't seem to leave each other. Clara finds refuge from her loneliness by focusing on the special relationship she has with her three children. The eldest, Adriana, still unknown in this new neighborhood, deliberately presents herself as a boy to the children, which will push the bond that still holds the family together to a breaking point.

Encouraged by his fiancée, Sebastian brings his immigrant, hairdresser father, Salvo, to a weekend get-together with Ellie's super-rich and exceedingly eccentric family.

A dry summer on the Baltic Sea. In a lonely vacation home, young writer Leon and budding photographer Felix meet Nadja, who is working in a nearby coastal town, and her summer love, lifeguard Devid. While the moody Leon toils over a manuscript that doesn't quite come together, the other three go swimming, cooking, repairing a roof. Tensions continue to rise as Leon's publisher's visit approaches and, at the same time, the forest fires in the region draw closer.

The child prodigy turns 60! At the tender age of 13, Anne-Sophie Mutter was discovered by star conductor Herbert von Karajan. An unprecedented world career followed. She once said about herself, "If you want to get to know me, you have to experience me on stage." She does not appreciate questions about her private life. So how do you portray such an exceptional artist?

The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

Renfield has been the tortured sidekick of the narcissistic Dracula for centuries. Unlike the dark count, Renfield one day grows tired of his life. For too long, he has been procuring his master's loot and following his orders, no matter how unworthy they may turn out to be. He then joins a self-help group and tries to take his life into his own hands so that he no longer has to linger in Dracula's shadow. What follows is a battle against time to free himself from the clutches of his ruler.