Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland, Europe, and the U.S. On their travels in mobile homes, they explore the depths of the human psyche in search of answers to the question: What is the human mind and how does it behave in psychotic extreme situations?
How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How ...
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a ch...
Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The ...
In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...
Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds c...
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are...
A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated...
In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster br...
Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of M...
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Ma...
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site a...
The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serve...
A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, ex...
Switzerland was one of the last countries in the world to grant women the right to vote. This film g...
“Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The...