An artist’s studio to dismantle, a life to archive, a voice that shares itself through sculptures, memories, and a touch of irony. Marcel Dupertuis, A Coffee with Two Babas is an intimate, lucid journey into the world of a creator confronting the disintegration of his creative space as an act of generosity, resistance, and rebirth. More than just a portrait, this film is a meditation on art, time, and the human need to leave traces—even when everything conspires to erase them.
Once a year, Bellinzona hosts the largest Japanese festival in Switzerland. The creator and organiser of the Japan Matsuri is Sheila Muggiasca, supported by her family and a group of volunteers. For Sheila, dedicating herself totally to this event is a way of paying her respects to the culture of a country that has enabled her to live with a rare disease. For the 10th anniversary of the Japan Matsuri, Sheila decided to defy her illness and fear of flying to finally see Japan live.
It can be called in different ways: youth malaise, psychic distress, emotional dysregulation. In many cases it leads to acts of self-harm and frequent suicidal thoughts. In recent years, the number of young people being hospitalised has increased, but there are not enough beds to accommodate them and, above all, there is a lack of ad hoc facilities for minors.
The menopause is a natural phase in every woman’s life. Yet even today it is difficult not to associate it with illness or to talk about it in society without feeling a certain embarrassment. We tend to hide it. After discovering that she was one of the 1.5 billion women worldwide facing the menopause, the author decided to talk openly about it. She embarked on a personal journey of research amidst hormonal changes, laboratory analyses, the advice of friends, the lack of interest shown by advertising in this subject, a hypnosis session and much more. A documentary that comes to terms with the commonplaces and taboos that still surround being a woman, and which therefore encourages us to reflect more generally on femininity and the issue of gender.
Redea Production had the pleasure and the honour to contribute with a second camera to the work on the documentary by Gianluca Grossi: A reporter’s journey to Lebanon in search of a seriously wounded child he filmed during the 2006 war. An intimate reflection on the the war and on the meaning of his profession.
Thirty years ago, when the Wall began to fall in Berlin, the author experienced this historic event first-hand on site. Three decades later, the decision to make a journey through reunified Germany also responds to a desire to understand the personal significance of that experience.
From the West to the East and finally to Berlin: the main stages are shared with Thomas, a citizen of the former DDR who literally bears the consequences of an escape attempt in his twenties.
The interweaving of his testimony with that of the other characters she met conveys the atmosphere in which the Germans are preparing to commemorate this anniversary. 30 Years in November is an original snapshot of a Germany grappling with the contradictions of its recent past.
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Ioan, Ditmir and Alfredo are serving their sentences in La Stampa prison. Eros has worked there as a prison officer for eleven years. They share, albeit on opposite sides, the relationship with the world inside, the prison reality that the documentary recounts in all its dimensions, providing an exclusive testimony by virtue of the access allowed to the cameras. The protagonists have agreed to talk barefaced about their lives behind bars, the dimension of time, the meaning of the word freedom, the relationship between good and evil, the sentence imposed, the guilt to be expiated and what it means to work in a prison, a closed world parallel to the reality we all know.
Hundreds of “girls next door” have posed in the Swiss-German newspaper BLICK. But who are the “Stars des Tages”? We met them before, during and after the photo session to find out what drives a woman to show off in a newspaper. What emerges is a cross-section of today’s Swiss society; a far more complex portrait than appearances suggest.