- 2025
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Un film de Gianluca Mattarese
France/Italy/Switzerland - documentary - 90 min
What do women and men who dream of having a child have in common with those who seek to reconcile their assigned gender with their gender identity?
At Milan's Nigaurda Hospital, in the department that deals with both MAP and gender dysphoria, Dr Bini takes her public service mission to heart, pushing back the barriers of 'political correctness' and the ethical limits of body manipulation, in order to reduce 'human suffering' as much as possible.
- 2024
DE CE FACEM RAZBOAIE
Un film de Amos Gitai
Elveția / Franța - 90 min - ficțiune - 2024
Directed by Amos Gitai
Written by Amos Gitai
Produced by Amos Gitsi, Alex Iordachescu, Laurent Truchot and Shuki Friedman
Inspirat dintr-o corespondență dintre Albert Einstein și Sigmund Freud, în urmă cu aproape un secol, DE CE RĂZBOIUL este o ficțiune despre război, sau mai degrabă o fabulă cu mai multe personaje în căutarea sensului într-un poem vizual.
- 2023
SHIKUN
Un film de Amos Gitai
Israel / Franta / Elvetica - 84 min - fiction - 2023
Inspirat din piesa lui Eugène Ionesco, filmul ne vorbește despre apariția intoleranței și a gândirii totalitare printr-o serie de episoade zilnice care se desfășoară într-un singur spațiu de la marginea deșertului Beersheba din Israel, clădirea Shikun. Acest grup hibrid este format din oameni de origini și limbi diferite. Unii dintre ei se vor transforma în rinoceri, dar alții vor rezista. O metaforă ironică a vieții în societățile noastre contemporane.- 2021
- 2019
MISTER DELIGNY THE HELPFUL WANDERER
Un film de 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
- 2016
CABBAGE, PATATOES AND OTHER DEMONS
Un film de 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
MIRACOLUL LUI TEKIR
Un film de Ruxandra Zenide
Elvetia/Romania - 88min - HD - fictiune - 2015
productie: 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
Un film de Milla Quixote et Jérôme Monnot
Elvetia - 52 min - HD - documentar - 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
PRIMARUL
Un film de 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
Un film de Amos Gitai
Elvetia/Franta - 87 min - DCP - docu-fictiune - 2012
productie: Elefant Films, Agav Films (FR)
Subiectul filmului este o poveste personala a regizorului, istoria lui Munio Weinraub Gitai, tatal lui Amos Gitai, care tanar student arhitect la Bauhaus in Germania ( care a creat si faimosul curent cu acelasi nume) a fost vanat de nazisti si obligat in 1933 sa se refugieze in Elvetia la Basel. Aici el este primit si primeste protectia celui mai mare birou de arhitectura moderna din Elvetia acelor vremuri.Este o calatorie in timp plina de amintiri si emotii personale, un parcurs formator si initiatic al parintelui lui Amos Gitai pe firul arhitecturii, care ne transporta prin Germania, Elvetia, Polonia si Israel.
http://blog.slate.fr/projection-publique/2013/01/15/lullaby-to-my-father-d%E2%80%99amos-gitai/
HISTORIA DE LA MEVA MORT
Un film de Alberto Serra
Franta/Spania/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
Un film de 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.
- 2011
- 2009
COPILARIA LUI ICAR
Un film de Alex Iordachescu
Elvetia/Franta/Romania - 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
- 2005
- 2021
- 2015
- 2014
RABBITZ
Un film de Jacek (Zaq) Chojecki
Elvetia - 26min - DCP - fictiune - 2014
produs 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
Orasul din Nori - Art4Kids - episod 1
Un film de Ruxandra Zenide
Elvetia - 12x12min - HD - documentar - 2012/2013
Coprodus de 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.
he 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
Un film de Arthur Touchais
Elvetia - 15 min - fiction - 2013
co-productie : Elefant Films / RTS / ECAL- 2012
ROLEX LEARNING CENTER
Un film de Juliette Garcias
Suisse / France - 26 min - HD - 2012
Colectia "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
- 2010
LAUNDRY
Un film de Yamina Zoutat
Elvetia/Franta - 45 min - video - 2010
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
- 2005
- 2003
- 2002
