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THE LOST MERCENARY is the true story of Andrei Medvedev, the only Wagner mercenary who managed to escape from Russia.

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Andrei refuses to serve as cannon fodder in Bakhmut. Torn between his love for Russia and his hatred of its power elites, he sets off on a frantic odyssey – running all the way to the NATO border in Norway. In “the West,” everything is supposed to be different. But Andrei is still himself, both victim and perpetrator. And is he truly willing to leave his past completely behind?

In postproduction

 

Niki has two jobs, no money, and is constantly under the watch of the authorities. When her two children accidentally set the kitchen on fire while left unattended, they are placed with a foster family. Despite a contact ban, Niki tracks them down on the other side of Switzerland and gets a job as a cleaner at their new school. With a changed appearance and a new identity, she secretly becomes part of her children’s lives. But when Niki is on the verge of being exposed and the only option left for the three of them is to run, everything is at stake.

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The drama 111 tells the story of the tragic crash of Swissair 111 into the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 2 September 1998. The catastrophe itself is never shown, but is subliminally always palpable. The film follows several fates affected by the tragedy and paints a bigger picture: the crash had a profound impact not only on those directly affected, but also on Switzerland and people around the world, and changed the environment around Halifax forever.

 

111 is a tragic film, but one that celebrates life. This fateful crash changed so many different lives in an instant, uniting them through the shared grief and shock of this sudden, incomprehensible tragedy. But ultimately, the film highlights how such a loss changes our perspective on life and what is important. That is the story we want to tell.

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In Kenya, the daily lives of a nurse, an herbal healer, and a researcher are shaped by their fight against malaria. While the disease continues to advance across Africa, the Global North is increasingly shirking its responsibility. Visitors from the northern hemisphere can protect themselves with modern medicine, but the residents of Kenya’s malaria-endemic regions must live with the constant threat the disease poses. All eyes are on science: will it succeed in stopping malaria and freeing the people of the Global South from this burden?

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Based on true events…

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Switzerland, November 1946. A US Air Force Dakota bomber crashes on a glacier in the Bernese Alps. In fact, it should never have been flying over Switzerland in the first place. The Americans panic and launch a frantic rescue operation — but they are not equipped for a mountain rescue. A Swiss military pilot risks his life and career to carry out a daring rescue mission.

 

It will go down in aviation history as the first glacier landing and mountain rescue ever performed.

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As a daring flying doctor, the Swiss physician Anne Spoerry brings medical care to tens of thousands of people in Kenya. After her death, she is revered almost like a saint. Yet her nearly 50 years of service in Africa were not only the result of her selflessness. The solitary flights into the most remote regions of the country were also an attempt to escape from her past…

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A fatal train accident destroys the idyll of a peaceful holiday region. While survivors crawl out of the wreckage, disoriented and in shock amids dead passengers, blue-light units race in, seal off the damage site and begin their rescue. A battle against time. Onlookers capture the scene on their mobile phones just as quickly as the media, who report explosively on the event – and rumours of a possible terrorist attack are already going around. A care team arrives at the scene of the tragedy. It provides first-aid for the soul.

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German billionaire Paul Sigmar Welsch does not return from a tour on the Matterhorn. It is the job of mountain rescuer Ive to search for him. But the longer this job goes on, the more questions arise and Ive's profession becomes an obsession that also allows her buried demons to surface. Rumours swirl around Welsch's disappearance and the question of whether he even wants to be found. Will the reason for his disappearance remain buried under the ice forever?

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Lésia, a 17-year-old girl and granddaughter of cycling legend Jacques Anquetil, heads to Rouen, France with her single hippie mother Sophie and the rest of the Anquetil clan to celebrate Sophie's 50th birthday at the cycling legend's former chateau.

A special occasion that happens to coincide with the renaming of a square in Rouen in honour of Jacques Anquetil, who died prematurely of stomach cancer in 1987.

Lésia, who does not feel much like celebrating her grandfather, nevertheless wants to understand the history and motivation of her grandfather and the women around him.

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Basel in the year 1477.

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Freedom-loving female jesters live dangerously: to escape the stake, Flordelis – accused of being a WITCH — must go into hiding in the infamous women’s convent of Klingental in Basel.

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While there – disguised as Sister Magda – she hopes to unravel the mystery surrounding the mother she has never known, the highly headstrong noble nuns suddenly find themselves confronted with a diabolical conspiracy. Magda’s past threatens to be exposed, and a mysterious prophecy catapults the young woman into the midst of an apocalyptic battle!

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Zurich, at the beginning of the last century.

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Emma Rauschenbach (21), daughter of an ultra-wealthy Swiss industrialist, falls head over heels in love with the fascinating but penniless medical PhD candidate Carl Gustav Jung (28), who moves in the circles of the emerging field of depth psychology. It is the beginning of a tempestuous love affair and a journey as thrilling as it is painful into the realm of the unconscious.

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A horizontally told drama series about the passionate life and love story of Emma and Carl Gustav Jung, two pioneers of psychotherapy, interwoven with gripping, vertically structured psychological case analyses in the style of Sherlock Holmes.

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"Fifty Shades of Grey" meets "In Therapy".

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Marie Tussaud is the story of a woman who breaks out of the conventions of her time. A time that was not comfortable for women and artists. Behind the rise of her successful career is a personal story of love and survival, happiness and unhappiness and life-threatening moments at the time of the French Revolution.

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After a severe stroke of fate, PAULA KEREZ (43) turns away from society and takes care of a large flock of sheep in the Swiss Alps. She befriends a wild wolf that prowls around her sanctuary. These almost mystical encounters, as well as the hard but fulfilling work with the herd, makes Paula forget her past. She is happy and content in the seclusion of the archaic mountain landscape.

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But when a worldwide blackout brings life as we know it to a standstill, her past catches up with her. Society is collapsing and she is forced to defend her sanctuary against invaders, both to survive and to protect the unborn life inside her.