This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from February to May 1990, filmmaker Jacqueline Veuve and her team filmed a platoon engaged in basic training at Colombier, Switzerland.

She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from ...

This documentary follows Swiss improvisation musicians and tells their stories.

At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He ...

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

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

The film interweaves the stories of two generations of Palestinians. It tells the story of Elias Jub...

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told a...

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a ch...

'From One Day To The Next' follows four elderly people through their everyday lives, observing how t...

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

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

Arami Ullón must return to Paraguay to make an important decision: what will happen to her sick moth...

A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mah...