What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a vocal artist? The answer is: THE VOICE. Against a background of powerful alpine vistas and modern city landscapes, "heimatklänge" enters the wondrous sonic world of three exceptional Swiss vocal artists. Their universe of sound extends far beyond what we would describe as singing. In their engagement with local and foreign traditions, the powerful mountain landscape becomes a stage as do the landscapes and sonic backdrops of modern life.
How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How ...
Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a ch...
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway ...
“Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The...
The revealing life story of Güli Dogan conveys impressively and in exemplary pictures the long and d...
A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissne...
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
She was a muse, model and performer – a star, dazzling and intense. Lady Shiva managed to rise from ...
Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told a...
While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and cus...
A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.
A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, op...
MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary lif...
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to re...
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in ...
A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mah...
It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this l...
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact co...
At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He ...