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Kill Hitler

This 140-minute documentary takes a close look at the story and historical context of a young Swiss man who was beheaded...

Chronique paysanne en Gruyère

The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July...

Into Great Silence

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chart...

Kick That Habit

Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. Th...

Monte Grande: What is Life?

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

Tosca's Kiss

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for r...

Yugodivas

Five New York divas close up. The thing that in addition to their friendship links these gifted, confident and beautiful...

Zwischenwelten - Unterschiedliche Wege des Heilens

A documentary about healers from the Swiss canton of Appenzell.

Bear-Like

At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He discovers together w...

Tibetan Warrior

The true story of one man's fight for freedom. For more than 60 years Tibetans have been fighting Chinese oppression. Bu...

Gangbé!

The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.

Markus Raetz

Swiss artist Markus Raetz has a sixth sense for apprehending the extraordinary. His works are as astonishing as a magici...

Ikaria

Max Frisch, Citoyen

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

The Congress of Penguins

The real place where the penguin congress takes place is also the most fictional place on this planet where you can stan...

L'homme des casernes

This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from February to May 1990,...

Zen for Nothing

Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off t...

Ho und Überall

Picture of Light

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

Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand

Women bring children into the world. But when, as in the case of Sandra, Jasmine and Jennifer, you're not yet eighteen a...