- 2024
WHY WAR
A movie directed by Amos Gitai
Switzerland / France - 90 min - fiction - 2024
Directed by Amos Gitai
Written by Amos Gitai
Produced by Amos Gitsi, Alex Iordachescu, Laurent Truchot and Shuki Friedman
Inspired by a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, almost a century ago, WHY THE WAR is a fiction about war, or rather a fable with several characters in search of meaning in a visual poem.
- 2023
SHIKUN
A movie directed by Amos Gitai
Israel / France / Switzerland - 84 min - fiction - 2023
A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins, and generations weave in and out of each other in a poignant metaphor drawn from Eugène Ionesco’s famous play Rhinoceros, some begin to turn into rhinoceroses; others resist.- 2021
STELA, IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
A movie directed by Anca Hirte
Romania / Switzerland / France - 80min- documentary
I’ve been a robber, a thief, a thug. I blew my veins out, I drank, I drank and I fucked chicks.
I aint killed nobody yet. I never stole from the poor.
My name is Stela, I’m 42 years old and I spent 10 of them in jail. Chaos is my life.- 2019
MISTER DELIGNY THE HELPFUL WANDERER
A movie directed by Richard Copans
France / Switzerland , 90min - doc.
Directed by: Richard Copans
Production: Les Films d'Ici / Elefant films / Les Films Hatari
!!! CONFERENCE ZOOM du 12.05.2020 avec Richard COPANS et Françoise TSCHOPP !!!
Fernand Deligny (1913-1993) invented living spaces that allow young offenders, psychotics and autistic children to avoid confinement. The film tells the story of this famous educator, revives his desire for cinema and his cinematographic dialogue with François Truffaut.- 2017
L'EXIL SUISSE DE LENINE: DE GENEVE A PETROGRAD
A movie directed by Nadège de Peganow
Switzerland - 52 min - HD - documentary- 2017
production: Elefant Films (CH) / RTS
From 1900 to 1917, Lénine spent seventeen years in various European countries, amongst which seven years in Switzerland, before seizing the power in Russia during the October Revolution.
From Lénine's writings, the archive images and the testimonies of four renowned historians, the film brings a new light upon this dazzling path.
We will see how this young man, coming from a wealthy middle class family, became the leader of the russian Revolution, how he developed his political ideas during these years of exile, and which strategical issues underlies this major historical event of the XXth century.
6999 DOORS
A movie directed by Yamina Zoutat
Switzerland/France - 87 min - HD - documentary - 2017
production: Elefant Films (CH), Les Films d'Ici (FR)
The first time I ever stepped into the Courthouse in Paris, I was twenty. It was already a thousand years old monument. 6999 doors, 3150 windows and 24 kilometres of corridors, according to the legend. On the nights when I had to stay late awaiting a verdict, I would step away from the lights and sink into darker and darker corridors. I would hear rumblings coming from deep down. I had the feeling that the House was alive and it appeared to be moving. Its impending removal hastens my return. From its maze of passages and my encounters, from its lurking stories, the portrait of an abstraction emerges piece by piece: justice- 2016
CABBAGE, PATATOES AND OTHER DEMONS
A movie directed by Serban Georgescu
Germany/Romania - 65 min - doc - 2016
written and directed by : Serban Georgescu
produced by : ELEFANT FILMS & ARTE
1 village, 1.000 tractors, 100.000 tons of cabbages & potatoes each year - which are hardly sold and eventually destroyed. Is there any way out?- 2015
THE MIRACLE OF TEKIR
A movie directed by Ruxandra Zenide
Switzerland/Romania - 88min - HD - fiction - 2015
production: Elefant Films (CH) Elefant Film (RO)
Unmarried Mara has mysteriously fallen pregnant. This poses a problem for her fellow residents of the small fishing village on the Danube delta, where Europe’s second longest river enters the Black Sea, and religion mixes with superstition like earth with water. Expelled from her village, Mara finds employment at the nearby spa hotel Tekir where infertile women are treated with the sacred Danube mud. When her world collides with that of the well-to-do, eccentric cosmopolitan Lili, magic
combines with power and tradition with modernity to become the answer to Lili’s desire to have children – and Mara’s ‘immaculate’ conception.
- 2014
NOURATHAR
A movie directed by Milla Quixote et Jérôme Monnot
Switzerland - 52min - HD - documentary - 2014
production: Elefant Films (CH)
Nourathar explores the relationship between art and technology, as seen through the eyes of 6 artists who use new technologies in their own artworks. This documentary is a poetic investigation of the technologic trends in the visual arts as well as an open question of their extension in our real lives.- 2013
IN THE NAME OF THE MAYOR
A movie directed by Anca Hirte
France/Roumania - 52min - documentary - 2013
production : Entre2prises (FR) Elefant Films (RO)
coproduction : Label Vidéo (FR) Télé Bocal (FR)
In the Name of the Mayor follows petitioners as they are carefully preparing speeches like stand-up monologues, creating a meditation on power.
Anca Hirte's last film was the documentary Teodora Sinner.- 2012
LULLABY TO MY FATHER
A movie directed by Amos Gitai
Switzerland/France - 87 min - DCP - docu-fiction - 2012
production: Elefant Films, Agav Films (FR)
Lullaby to my father tells the story of Munio Weinraub Gitai, father of filmmaker Amos Gitai, young student of the Bauhaus who was expelled by the Nazis because of his Jewish faith. He took refuge in Switzerland where he is welcomed and protected by what was then the largest modern Swiss
architecture firm.
The film takes us through a journey made of personal memories and historival events, unveiling the initiatic path that leads Munio, as a young architect, form Germany to Switzerland Poland and Israel.
http://blog.slate.fr/projection-publique/2013/01/15/lullaby-to-my-father-d%E2%80%99amos-gitai/
HISTORIA DE LA MEVA MORT
A movie directed by Alberto Serra
France/Spain/Romania - 35mm - fiction - 2012
production: Capricci Films (F), Andergraun Films (ES), Elefant Film (RO)
Historia de la meva mort describes a time of transition from the Rationalism of the eighteenth century and the Romanticism of the early nineteenth century, viewed through the prism of sexuality and everyday life. Two «historical» characters Casanova and Dracula represent these two worlds.
AGON
A movie directed by Robert Budina
Albania/Greece/Romania - 35mm - fiction - 2012
production: Erafilm (ALB), Inkas Film Production (GR), Elefant Film (RO)
Thessaloniki, Greece. Saimir and his younger brother Vini, who emigrated from Albania, are trying to survive in Greece. Saimir will marry Elektra, a young Greek girl. He also tries to deal with his brother and find him a job. And Vini do not like Elektra’s father, Nikos, and how he tries to control his life and Elektra’s.
KILLING TIME
A movie directed by Florin Piersic Jr.
Romania - 85 min - HD - fiction - 2012
production : Elefant Film (RO) Kinosseur Films (RO)
Two hitmen wait for their next target in an empty appartment. The hours go by. Little by little, they start losing their patience and their temper. Pretty soon, they may even lose their lives. Killing time can be a deadly affair.- 2011
SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY
A movie directed by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio
Romania/Italy - 98min - 35mm - fiction - 2011
production: Elefant Film (RO), La Sarraz Pictures (I)
Luminita, a teenager desperate to ensure her survival, is using the apartment of Antonio, an old man suffering from cancer, to engage in an illicite traffic. The confrontation between those two characters is inevitable and violent but the consequences are unexpected.
TEODORA, SINNER
A movie directed by Anca Hirte
France/Romania - 85min - HD - documentary - 2011
NEWS: Nominated for the GOPO Prizes - Best documentary
«How to live love without the body of a loved one?» Teodora, sinner: women in black. Women in mourning. Brides, engaged, married. With the same person. In mourning for that person. And in mourning for their own person. It is a film about the flesh and the love of the souls that inhabit these bodies for a lover without a body.- 2009
THE WAY BEYOND
A movie directed by Alex Iordachescu
Switzerland/Romania/France - 98min - 35mm - 2009
Production Elefant Films (CH), Elefant Film (RO), Freshline Productions (FR)
Jonathan Vogel would like to turn back the clock and undo the accident that led to his disability and destroyed his life. When he learns that Stivlas Karr, a well-known professor and geneticist, has developed a gene therapy for regenerating the human body, he makes an appointment with him for some clinical tests. But the therapy doesn’t go according to Professor Karr’s plan and leads to unexpected results. Jonathan, whose life is now in danger, has become aware that there is only one person who can help him: Alice, the professor’s daughter.- 2007
L'AUTRE MOITIE
A movie directed by Rolando Colla
Switzerland/France - 87min - 35mm - fiction - 2007
production : Peacock Film (CH), Saga Film, Elefant Films (CH), TSI
Two brothers in their forties meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. They have grown up separately, one in Algeria, the other in France. Because one of the two is involved in a radical Islamist group and is arrested shortly before the funeral, he believes his brother is working for the police. The film tells the story of the difficult reconciliation between the brothers in a climate of mistrust and paranoia.- 2005
RYNA
A movie directed by Ruxandra Zenide
Switzerland/Romania - 93min - 35 - fiction - 2005
16-year-old Ryna is the daughter of a poor Rumanian who runs a gas station in a small community on the Donau. Ryna has been brought up as a boy because her father had longed for a son. Zenide’s film is about strong family ties, about a daughter’s search for her mother, and about a despotic father slowly losing his grip, but also about poverty, social suppression and the abuse of power by those who rule under the guise of a false freedom. Ryna shows the awakening of a young girl’s soul and the pain that goes with it. Caught between traditional values and materialistic dreams, Ryna finally pays a high price in order to preserve her identity.
- 2021
Aimer d'amour
A movie directed by Lucie Goldryng
Switzerland - 27 min - Fiction - 2021
It's Shrove Tuesday at Courbes-la-Colombe College. The masks, the disguises, transgression. Esther, the leader of the group, takes advantage of this special day to organize an insurrection.
Without really knowing why, Paul is attracted to her like a magnet. A moody and slightly awkward character, he looks for her everywhere in the corridors. Too busy following in her footsteps, he is the only one not to participate in the collective and devastating rage the collective and devastating rage that is taking over the school.
Teenage love mixes with the wind of revolt.- 2015
The mirror system
A movie directed by Eva Zornio
Switzerland - 17min - Docu-Fiction -2015
Pictures escape from a dream. A curious forest made out of neurons where the young director wanders every night. A dream that brings together brain and cinema, memories and scientific experiments. She tries to understand the link which is being woven between Neuroscience and films. A poetic journey at the heart of the Mirror System, the mechanism by which we feel or not empathy for other, whether in the real world or on the screen.
- 2014
STHORZINA
A movie directed by Dan Radu Mihai
Roumania /Macedonia / Serbia - 19min - fiction - 2014
production: Elefant Film (RO), Bas Celik production
Two parallel lives, seen in the mirror, each wishing for something that the other boy has, in a world that has erased the boundaries between good and evil and blended childhood and maturity into one eternal age.
REPLIKA
A movie directed by Luc Walpoth
Switzerland/France - 26min - HD - fiction / short - 2014
production: Elefant Films (CH), La Voie Lactée (FR)
As she is forced to terminate her only daughter, a dysfunctional 13- year-old android, a loving mother tries to convince her husband to adopt a human kid. But in a materialistic and functional world, safety takes precedence over emotions.
WALL AND WATER
A movie directed by Alice Fargier
Switzerland - 25min - HD - documentary - 2014
production : Alex Iordachescu
associate producer : Thomas Jaeger
Adulthood and childhood, fathers and sons: after seeing The Kid with a Bike an 11-year old child from a foster family sends his thoughts about those topics to Luc Dardenne. A long distance debate starts. The poetry of pedagogy and the pedagogy of poetry come into play. The result is a surprising film which reveals cinema as an instrument of freedom.
RABBITZ
A movie directed by Jacek (Zaq) Chojecki
Switzerland - 26min - DCP - fiction - 2014
produced by par Alex Iordachescu
Artie, est un expert d’art. Il est à Berlin pour présenter à ses collègues experts les résultats de son expertise sur deux tableaux quasi identiques. L’un étant l’original, l’autre un faux.
Lors de la soirée, Artie découvre que l’un des tableaux a disparu. C’est alors que Celia, une femme mystérieuse, propose à Artie de l’aider à retrouver le tableau
disparu. Caché derrière un masque de lapin, Artie, guidé par Celia se lance à travers Berlin. Au fur et à mesure que la nuit avance, les limites du vrai et du faux vont peu à peu s’estomper. Artie ne saura bientôt plus distinguer le vrai du faux tableau.- 2013
L'��GE DE FEU
A movie directed by Léo Haddad
Switzerland - 25min - Fiction - 2013
Produced by par Alex Iordachescu & Lionel Baier
Hugo is 16 years old and has to spend Easter vacation at the country house, with his mother. He rediscovers Céline, his childhood friend, the caretaker's daughter. It has been a long time since they last saw each other. She has changed and so has he. He discovers a world in which he does not master the codes of conduct.
Cloud City - Art4Kids - episode 1
A movie directed by Ruxandra Zenide
Switzerland - 12x12min - HD - documentary - 2012/2013
Coproduced by the RTS ( Radio télévision Suisse )
Art4Kids is a TV serial for children, coproduced by the RTS (Radio Television Switzerland) . It is an original and ambitious independent production which goal is to present contemporary art to children in a fun and accessible way. Each episode is 12 minutes long and is focused on a well known contemporary artist through an intuitive and creative exploration of his work.
The first episode of the Art4Kids serials will take place in New York City at the
Metropolitan Museum on Tomas Saraceno Cloud City installation in October 2012.
LA FRANGE DES FILLES
A movie directed by Arthur Touchais
Swiss - 15 min - fiction - 2013
co-production : Elefant Films / RTS / ECAL- 2012
THE ROLEX LEARNING CENTER
A movie directed by Juliette Garcias
Suisse / France - 26 min - HD - 2012
Collection "Architectures"
Posée dans un champ, à quelques mètres du lac Léman, à la périphérie de Lausanne, une plaque de béton et de verre. Percée d’étonnants trous en « patatoïdes », par endroits décollée du sol, la structure semble ondoyer sous le vent.
Cette étrange vague qui évoque une tranche d’emmenthal fondue, une crêpe, voire pour certains, un « mille-feuilles de difficultés », est un Collège des Humanités, le Learning Center de l’École polytechnique de Lausanne.
- 2011
THE ROBBERY
A movie directed by Dan Radu Mihai
Romania - 13 min - 16mm - color - 2011
Edy and Laura turn into first-time thieves. After a night without sleep, they decide to make their first hit. While they are searching the “victim’s” apartment, Edy discovers that it belongs to the secret lover of Laura’s mother. The two of them start a violent argument. Finally, they decide to leave the apartment as soon as possible, but as they open the door, they run into two young Evangelists. Edy is panicked and threatens the Evangelists. He forces them to take off all their clothes, ties them to a chair and hurries out of the apartment, dragging Laura with him, leaving the two Evangelists, Larry and Frank, with a dilemma: would they steal clothes from the apartment in order to save themselves? Their decision will gather the four of them once again.- 2010
SOAP OPERA IN WONDERLAND
A movie directed by Eileen Hofer
Switzerland - 15min - 35mm - short movie - 2010
A Portuguese immigrant disguises himself as a rabbit and hires himself out for birthday parties. He falls in love with a Philippine domestic worker in a television programme who dreams of meeting her true love one day like Cinderella.
LAUNDRY
A movie directed by Yamina Zoutat
Switzerland/France - 45 min - video - 2010
production: Elefant Films, Film d'Ici (FR)
Laundry and three mothers. They sort, wash, stretch, iron, perfume, fold and put away. Then they do it all over again. All these women are doing their son’s laundry, sons have been in jail for years. The film observes the hollow bodies of the sons, and the full bodies of the mothers and the gentleness and violence that passes between them all.- 2006
DVD: Green Oaks / Andrea's Tramway / Dust
A movie directed by Ruxandra Zenide et Alex Iordachescu
A DVD that contains 3 shorts:
Green Oaks - by Ruxandra Zenide / 2004 / 31 min
Andrea's Tramway - by Alex Iordachescu / 2006 / 17 min
Dust - by Ruxandra Zenide / 2002 / 18 min- 2005
ANDREA'S TRAMWAY
A movie directed by Alex Iordachescu
Switzerland - 17min - 35mm - short movie - 2005
Production Elefant Films
Andrea, a young tram driver, has a special relationship with the tram she drives every day. Once she climbs in the cabin she feels stronger, convinced that the tram has the power to protect her. Her boyfriend, Marcel, resents what he perceives as a growing affection between Andrea and a machine.- 2003
- 2002
DUST
A movie directed by Ruxandra Zenide
Switzerland - 18min - 35mm - short movie - 2002
production Elefant Films
Trying to locate the friend who had left her alone on the train, Ryna finds herself somewhere between Bucharest and Berlin. It is night, and she has to share the only vacant hotel room with a stranger. An uncommon encounter which will help her to find her way. Focusing on the interaction between the two actors, the film experiments with the various possible facets of a forced encounter.
