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.

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...

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

Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s...

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzer...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

The Tea Explorer documentary follows the journey of tea enthusiast Jeff Fuchs along the Tea Horse Ro...

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

Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed foreve...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...

A representation of queer and feminist imagery that was mainly shot in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, ...

The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fie...

Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a countr...

A microcosm of China past and present flows through Xu Tong’s intimate docu “Shattered,” in which th...

Emma reviews old tapes on VHS, which show faded family memories of those distant 80s, when she was s...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

65 years of marriage, four systems, two people, one love: Ilse and Wolfgang Gutsche have gotten alon...