Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The film retells Frisch’s story as a witness of the unfolding 20th century, wondering if such “voices” are needed at all, or if we could do without them.
What becomes history, what feeds memory, what shapes an era? Images found in the dustbins of history...

A true pioneer of Swiss cinema, Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch (1917-2003) followed an unusual path throughou...

From August to October 1942, over 2250 Jews were deported from the internment camp of Rivesaltes to ...

Pascal, Miranda, Jeremy and Franziska are real gypsies. They're between 17 and 25, love big powerful...

The Making of a Dream is a cinematic essay on stories of dancers. It shows joys and pains from the f...
In Protestant Zurich, people with money avoid flaunting it. Wealth fascinates, but it also arouses j...

In 1906, Dr. Morgenthaler, a psychiatrist at Bern Psychiatric Hospital, started to collect and photo...

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster br...