The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her husband on a mission to the jungle in Indonesia where she raises their four children and five foster children and lives through the military coup. Back in Switzerland Katharina discovers her voice and finds her path. Now, at eighty, she is writing her life story. Yet suddenly she faces another battle because her publisher is threatening to let her go.

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest epi...

The incredible life of novelist, screenwriter, actress and nude dancer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (18...

Bern, 1980: A caleidoscopic portrait of Swiss urban life in the early 1980s.

This film is a story about that time in the Baltics, Latvia, and Riga. Young rebels of 1960s – nonco...

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s,...

From Jimi Hendrix to Patrick Hernandez and even Madonna, everybody crossed the path of Jean Vanloo. ...

Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other ...

A portrait about the Dutch writer Herman Koch. Koch started his career with the popular TV-show 'Jis...

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of...

Aslı Erdoğan, world-renowned author and activist, has fallen into silence after she fled to Germany....

A documentary featuring interviews with teachers and officials on the profession of teaching and wha...

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...

A documentary about Edie Sedgwick featuring photos of her and clips from Factory Girl, narrated by h...

In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and bec...

Sylvie Giroux doesn’t have kids, but every year, from September to June, about 10 teenagers aged 16 ...

In this artistic exploration of the life and work of writer Henry Miller, filmmaker Joe Kishton skil...

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, ...