La Terre Promise

A look at the pervasive power of dust from its tiny particles settling in unseen places to its ability to cause illnesses and create the cosmos.

Documentary about the youth riots in Zürich in 1980. Videoladen, Zürich 1980.

The father tends his large garden with the utmost precision. The mother irons shirts and regrets that the father never wears T-shirts. The father like...

The Grüninger case from Switzerland. This is a documentary about a police officer who showed civil courage back in the forties when he led many refuge...

It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am),from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an e...

What Swiss director Stefan Schweitert did for accordion music and for yodeling (Accordion Tribe, Cinequest, 2005; Echoes of Home, Cinequest 2008) he n...

In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the heart of Jerusalem, six different Christian denominations, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syrian, Roman Catholi...

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...

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...

This 140-minute documentary takes a close look at the story and historical context of a young Swiss man who was beheaded during WW II for supposedly w...

In the course of living long months with a group of Iranian illegals in Athens, the director examines this radical choice of pursuing a better life th...