Offshore: Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...

Modern Amazons are fierce heroines. They are ready to fight for what is important to them. Without explaining, without compromising, always...

A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a stylist on the bicycle and in life, and a huge...

“Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The film creates polyphonies of soulful...

It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry...

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

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

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly...

The revealing life story of Güli Dogan conveys impressively and in exemplary pictures the long and difficult path of a successful integration....

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.