In the course of living long months with a group of Iranian illegals in Athens, the director examines this radical choice of pursuing a better life through the most perilous of possibilities: clandestinity.
Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of M...
In their very own ways, scientists, artists and wandering souls search in the inhospitable and mythi...
A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, ex...
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting ...
In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother...
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...
A documentary about entertainment and home, filmed in Switzerland and California.
A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated...
The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serve...
Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a ch...
Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The ...
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are...
Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site a...
In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and s...
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...