She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from street prostitution to the top. She lived in the fast lane and died tragically young. Her dream was to become a singer. With her companions, we trace her life during a vibrant time that kindles a yearning and provokes until today. The story of a woman’s meteoric fate and a great dream. An irrepressible desire for freedom in all its beauty and destructive force - and a stirring friendship and love.

Nearing the end of a long and successful stage career, Miriam Goldschmidt finds her prowess as an ac...

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

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

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

MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary lif...

The real place where the penguin congress takes place is also the most fictional place on this plane...

Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this docume...

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

The Internet has changed everything, also for journalism: business models are falling by the wayside...

The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, fro...

Five highly original musicians from different countries form the Accordion Tribe. Together they aim ...
This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from F...

Philippe Savoy head of the choir at Saint Michael's College in Fribourg is preparing to take his fif...

Women bring children into the world. But when, as in the case of Sandra, Jasmine and Jennifer, you'r...

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

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.