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.

In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today,...

Between 1931 to 2002, Switzerland issued some six million seasonal residence permits, known as "A" p...

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy i...

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

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

Boulders in Valais presents the canton of Valais in Switzerland, its bouldering climbing spots and s...

The theater group Valendas from the Safiental in the canton of Grisons adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt's...

The Blocher Experience tells the story of Switzerland’s most controversial political leader. It also...

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Anne Marie Nakagawa's documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries th...

Enrico Naso is an undertaker in Lampedusa. Constantly confronted with the death that lurks everywher...

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

ADRIFT- People of a Lesser God is the story of an incredible odyssey made by several-times Pulitzer ...
"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of natu...

In 1966, John Harlin II died while attempting Europe's most difficult climb, the North Face of the E...

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

A disturbing exploration of what it means to be a man Desert Wind unveils the innermost thoughts of ...