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A brilliant mathematics student at France's top university the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes up all the certainty in her planned-out life, she decides to quit everything and start afresh.

Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.

Manon, a 17-year-old girl, departs the Swiss Alps in quest of her father, who has gone missing. She is determined to pursue her goal of becoming a professional hockey player as she makes new friends and falls in love for the first time.

Mr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city's sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway.

A cinematographic essay that centers around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladusa, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounters between people. A kaleidoscope of landscape and fury.

Saâd, Thuruban, Andrija and Luka, all Swiss officers with Serbian, Sri Lankan and Tunisian roots, have retained a strong connection to their culture of origin. In a personal documentary film, director Luka Popadic gives an insight into the Swiss army from the perspective of four officers with a migration background and humorously questions prejudices about home, belonging and integration.

When death haunts a high school in a small town in the late 1990s, everyone is forever transformed. In this gentle, prismatic film, Samara returns to the town she fled as a teen to re-immerse herself in the memories still lurking there, in its spaces and within the dusty boxes of diaries, photos and VHS tapes. 1999 is not a ghost story, but the ghosts are palpable at every turn. The snow-covered streets, the school's hallways and lockers are preserved as in a dream. The absences left by the relentless teenage suicides still shimmer with questions, trauma and regret. Samara encounters people who are as breathtaking as they are heartbroken, and, finally, 16 years later, the community strengthens itself by sharing the long-silenced memories. Ultimately the film weaves together multiple voices in a collective essay on how grief is internalized-and how, as children, we so painfully learn to articulate our desire to stay alive.

Gentle birdsong filters through dense forest vegetation only to be drowned out by the sudden roar of chainsaws.

Women in finance represent a minority - yet they are often called 'Dragons'. This documentary, shot in Europe and Asia, presents a series of intimate portraits of various senior women in the finance sector, revealing both the personas they've had to build for work and the parts of themselves they consciously leave at home. Thanks to her house husband, Alison has managed to have a family while going up the corporate finance ladder in London though that came with sacrificing time spent with her boys. In Paris, Laetitia supports young talented women in the industry and hosts feminist gatherings but oddly enough still cannot express her own desire for "power". Perfectionist Martina has had the flawless professional path she dreamed off in Germany but had to bury her desire for family along the way. In Singapore, Adeline controls both workplace and family with an iron fist while husband and kids express their weaknesses without fear. Junior Jennifer is a self-proclaimed workaholic living in Hong Kong but is starting to wonder who she is and what her future holds. Filmed at work and during moments of leisure, these strong and complex women tell us how they survive in one of the most competitive professions in the world.

The first feature documentary about the legendary pantomime artist Marcel Marceau. He inspires several generations of artists, among them his own grandson and family, who cast a new light on his life's work.

A man throws a wooden slat up into the sky. It vanishes on the horizon as the camera slowly rotates. It circles the earth and strikes him in the back of the head.

While diamonds and gold are traded in a climate of global indifference, a cardinal and an imam are struggling together for peace and inter-religious coexistence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Manuel von Stürler (European Film Award for WINTER NOMADE) questions the living together, the place of human beings in the midst of econo- mic and political interests.