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.
China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first tr...
For three decades now, Qatar, this small desert kingdom, has not stopped being talked about; because...
65 years of marriage, four systems, two people, one love: Ilse and Wolfgang Gutsche have gotten alon...
In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Al...
Amidst the grand walls of the Forbidden City, the film takes us on a deep journey through the ceremo...
The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in ...
Is the solution to Switzerland's future to integrate Germany into the confederation? After all, like...
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...
Lap up the luxury and opulence of the festive season at Switzerland's Gstaad Palace hotel, as we dis...
A new father takes his wife and daughter on a journey to his mother’s birthplace in Scotland. It is ...
In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favres...
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convi...
This rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family uncovers the story behin...
Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, th...
The player of Jia Zhangke's early film "Xiao Wu" and the famous independent film activist Wang Hongw...
I just watch the news of war in a distant country on my mobile. My fingers go back day by day to the...