2005

Into Great Silence

7/36

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for...

Watch Now

Into Great Silence

2007

Lucie et Maintenant

0/0

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set out in their VW bus on a journey along the highway f...

Watch Now

Lucie et Maintenant

2007

Queen of Condoms

6/20

Ceschi and Stamm's documentary tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education M...

Watch Now

Queen of Condoms

2016

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

5.6/6

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve st...

Watch Now

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

2015

Brother's Body

6.2/4

(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for the Arnold Classic – Arnold, fro...

Watch Now

Brother's Body

1997

Balifilm

7.2/3

Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the...

Watch Now

Balifilm

2008

Max Frisch, Citoyen

0/0

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The film retells Frisc...

Watch Now

Max Frisch, Citoyen

2012

Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night

0/0

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created t...

Watch Now

Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night

2007

Markus Raetz

8/1

Watch Now

Markus Raetz

2008

Frau Mercedes

0/0

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a doc...

Watch Now

Frau Mercedes

2013

Der Imker

6.2/4

A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, except his love for beekeeping.

Watch Now

Der Imker

2010

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

5.8/4

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence h...

Watch Now

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

2013

Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

6.5/2

Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate stor...

Watch Now

Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

2011

Special Flight

6.1/11

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. The...

Watch Now

Special Flight

2014

Illégitime

0/0

Watch Now

Illégitime

2016

Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats

0/0

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering...

Watch Now

Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats

2013

The Laundry Room

0/0

The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking th...

Watch Now

The Laundry Room

1994

Picture of Light

6.7/15

A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

Watch Now

Picture of Light

2008

Far from the Villages

0/0

Since the conflict in Darfur spread to the eastern border regions of Chad in 2005, some 13,000 people fled from this region to the refugee camp near t...

Watch Now

Far from the Villages

2016

Zen for Nothing

6.5/4

Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autu...

Watch Now

Zen for Nothing