Bruno Spoerri

An arsonist tries to shake up the despairing inhabitants of a village who can't communicate with each other.

The real place where the penguin congress takes place is also the most fictional place on this planet where you can stand on your own two legs. Here, even the animals can talk. This land of dreams and nightmares is called Antarctica. In this desert of ice surrounded by a stormy sea, a few dozen human beings also live. Using sophisticated instruments, they observe the worrying changes affecting our world: the hole in the ozone layer, climate change, and so on.

The film accompanies musicians who have devoted themselves to new, uncharted sounds with a great deal of passion. They build new instruments and work with quotidian noises. In the process, the ostensible noise often becomes sound. An adventurous journey of discovery into the realm of noises and sounds, rhythms and stillness. Together with people who listen closely and without reservation. A film that aims to engage viewers to listen with their eyes and see with their ears. Astonishingly sublime.

The Grisons singer Walter Lietha was one of the biggest names in the Swiss music scene in the 1970s, becoming the voice of a generation with his poetic, sometimes socially critical songs. But at the beginning of the 1980s, this voice largely fell silent in the public sphere. In August 2025, the 75-year-old Grisons bard was honored with a concert at the "Alpentöne" music festival, featuring, among others, Corin Curschellas, Sophie Hunger, Stephan Eicher, Michael von der Heide, and the Narrenschiffband. What has become of Walter Lietha, his utopian visions, his songs?

In his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dürrenmatt, searched for the other in himself in order to understand otherness.