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.
In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of M...
A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, ex...
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...
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting ...
In their very own ways, scientists, artists and wandering souls search in the inhospitable and mythi...
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother...
The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serve...
In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster br...
A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated...
Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A yo...
“Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The...
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Ma...