Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The Right to Die profiles that nation's EXIT organization, which for over twenty years has provided volunteers who counsel and accompany the terminally-ill and severely handicapped towards a death of their choice.

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

'From One Day To The Next' follows four elderly people through their everyday lives, observing how t...

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

The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact co...

It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this l...

At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He ...

A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...

Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this docume...

The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in ...

Documentary about Swiss grocery store pioneer Gottlieb Duttweiler

A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mah...

Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic ...

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.

This documentary follows Swiss improvisation musicians and tells their stories.

The first film about second-generation Swiss immigrants: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, i...

Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist's body is discovered dres...
This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from F...

(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother...