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.

The location of Hunan's southwestern Hunan, the local economy is not active, the people either go ou...

A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the...

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...

He climbed solo, without a rope, the north face of the Eigers in 2h47. Below him the rock wall steig...

Six big north faces of the Alps. The film consists of six films: "Die Wand der Wände" (Eger by Rober...

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

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

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

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

The Blocher Experience tells the story of Switzerland’s most controversial political leader. It also...

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock m...

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

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deep...

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up emp...

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

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