A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering sandstone cliffs, everyone attempts to live and survive in their own way. Foreigners who have a go at being Swiss, and Swiss who observe with scepticism. They meet in the corner shop run by an Iraqi living in exile, send their kids to a children’s club managed by a missionary, and old drinking mates meet regularly over a beer in the neighbourhood’s only bar. Despite all the differences, they are rather proud of the fact that they come from here.

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

Migrants from the countryside and unemployed people from neighbouring cities take over some unused l...

The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, ...

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

Grandchild fraudsters scare their victims on the phone with so-called "shock calls". The losses run ...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...

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This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...
The film explores the reasons for emigrating from Italy and describes the feeling of being a strange...

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 ...

By land, by air, and by sea, viewers can now experience the struggle that millions of creatures endu...

This documentary follows Swiss improvisation musicians and tells their stories.

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