Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of dictatorship, war and foreign occupation of Iraq.

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various c...

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

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

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

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

Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary undergroun...

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

Dieter Roth was an artist who combined art and life in a unique way. He painted, drew, printed, wrot...

Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hu...

On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and ...

The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-see...

The film follows five professional photographers in Los Angeles, Latin America, Paris, Berlin and Sw...

Mulhapar is a village in the wide expanses of the Punjab in Pakistan. A country associated with viol...

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

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

Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this docume...
This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from F...