How to Win Cannes in 5 Easy Steps

It's 10:47 pm on a bus somewhere in a city. A few teenagers are listening to music and talking loudly. The other passengers look languidly out the window or at their cell phones. A drunk man gets in and joins the teenagers; the mood starts to shift.

Mario is a promising young footballer in Switzerland on his way to the top, closing in on the success he and his father always dreamed of. But when the talented striker Leon joins the team, they'll get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love, as rumours and prejudice threaten their careers and everything they've managed to build.

A detective leaves the force to take over the family business as an undertaker at the same time as he is being investigated for murder. His close encounters with corpses and his earlier police training lead him to see things some of his ex-colleagues miss and he investigates the crimes he encounters in an unofficial capacity often to the dismay of the official police.

A mysterious concierge guides us through stories that unfold in the same room over a century. A Jewish businessman celebrates a lonely family festivity with his daughter. A planned suicide leads to a life-changing encounter. An ageing rock band struggles with their image, and a young woman sees a callboy as her big chance for financial independence.

In the 1970s, an idealistic young social worker is confronted with Switzerland's archaic mental health institutions.

Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to unravel.

Young and rebellious Eva despises her mother who married shady business man Michael and is living with him and his two daughters in a luxurious country house. When Eva overhears that a supposedly illegal delivery of uncut diamonds is about to go down on Ascencion Day she sees an opportunity to get rich and start a new life elsewhere. Together with her boyfriend Hanno and his buddy Dominik she plans a robbery during which nobody is supposed to be harmed. However, things go terribly wrong and a spiral of violence and revenge starts to spin.

After a landslide in the Axenstrasse, geologist Mara Graf and her boyfriend, seismologist Gian Wyss, are investigating for the Seismological Service of the University of Technology in Switzerland. For Gian this is a good opportunity to spend some weeks of Spring at home. For Mara to be with her grandmother and sister. The next day Mara Gian want to anchor indicators at the bottom of Lake Lucerne in a dive. They decide to dive alone. Before Mara could follow him, an explosion rocked their ship.

Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed the boredom – only to discover, at most, its own emptiness. That’s no way to start a revolution. Or perhaps?

After a terrible fight with her conservative parents, 19-year-old Mina moves in with her sister Mandy, who works a prostitute. Mina finds love when she meets Tony, a DJ with financial problems. But two sinister debt collectors give them a drastic ultimatum: they have three days to raise 11 000 Euros. Mandy’s advice to Mina is a diabolic one: to sell the costliest thing she possesses, her virginity.

Martina gets pregnant from her selfish boyfriend. Without knowing exactly what to do, she travels to Berlin to find her own father, the one she never met.

Without a permanent home and the security of a social network, a 16-year-old girl comes to a city to find a friend and perhaps even a companion. On her wanderings through the city, she meets him in the middle of a crowd. They spend a day together and are separated while stealing from a supermarket. Now the girl is on her own again and is once more confronted with her loneliness.

Charlotte is in her mid 20's but still acts like a little child sometimes. A dark secret burdens on her soul about which she does not want to speak - in fear to remember, in fear to open up.

After the death of her father, Eva's mother marries shady businessman and father of two daughters, Michael Bader. Together with Eva she moves into his country house in the middle of nowhere. After years of living together Eva develops a strong hatred towards her stepfather and his daughters. Also, her relationship with her mother worsens with each passing year, becoming more and more unbearable. Eva only visits her mother once and a while, and usually, only when she needs money. During one of her visits, Eva overhears a phone call between her stepfather and a Business associate. On Ascension Day, a "hot" business deal is to be transacted at the house while Eva’s mother is out with Michael’s two daughters.