Thirty female prisoners share the convicts’ ward of Tuilière Prison at Lonay. More than half of them have one or more children being raised elsewhere: with a sister, in a foster family, or – further away still – in their countries of origin. In portraying some of these women, the film sheds light on these mothers and the bond that ties them to their children.

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...

The film interweaves the stories of two generations of Palestinians. It tells the story of Elias Jub...

For a month, filmmaker Dieter Gränicher lives in an institution, in the village community of the dea...

She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from ...

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told a...
Two women and a man suffering from severe depression are accompanied by a camera for a year and a ha...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...

Nearing the end of a long and successful stage career, Miriam Goldschmidt finds her prowess as an ac...

How do you cope if things turn out differently than you'd imagined? Helena (19) and Jonas (11) are p...

The Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta, opened in 1996, five years ...

Radios echo across Niger, connecting lives through news, music, and debate. This gripping doc explor...

Between 1950 and 1966, thousands of men set off into the high mountains of the Valais, into a primit...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...