In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today, François Yang questions his mother about her past. What follows is a journey to China, a quest to reconstruct memory. Through contact with her brothers and sister, Heidi measures the extent of the drama experienced by her family that remained in China, persecuted by the Communist Party.

Emma reviews old tapes on VHS, which show faded family memories of those distant 80s, when she was s...
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family his...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-know...

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...

An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hat...

Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the...

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

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told...

Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and y...

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn do...

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various c...

A documentary about healers from the Swiss canton of Appenzell.

China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...

Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...