Switzerland Movies

Men in disguise arrive at a square where the last survivors of Carnival are ending a night of excess in style. Daybreak approaches. Véronique, Xavier,...

During his work as chief reporter for DDC-TV, a German-speaking television station in the USA, Dennis Mascarenas has met some pretty strange people an...

In an isolated village in the Kazakhstan mountains, Erken, a boy of 12, lives with his mother, a beautiful and alluring single woman. One night, when...

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

An amateur filmmaker meets the film student who is supposed to edit his material, the focus of which is allegedly bears. A debate arises about the pow...

A woman is passing through her home town, that isn’t home to her anymore. She has an appointment at 4 p.m. Bullingerplatz and everybody’s late except...

The film deals with an imigrant woman from southern Italy, who lives in Frankfurt in the 1970s. Unusual about this film is the way of the storytelling...

A documentary edited from ORLAN's seventh surgery in the The Reincarnation of Sainte-ORLAN series which aired live, vis satellite from New York in 199...

In a Milan theater, singer Vivi gives one of her big solo performances. She has no idea that it will be her last for the time being. Her old friend an...

Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be a grown up. In the r...

Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from t...

Bernard Rambert, “Red Beni”, is one of Switzerland's best-known and most controversial defence lawyers. What conclusions can a person who has spent hi...

Nancy works in a small gas station shop. Disillusioned, not even the news of an apocalypse seems to worry her. But the sudden arrival of a mysterious...

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them. After...

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.

Loosely following the Greek myth of the Flight of Icarus, Georges Schwizgebel opens his directional career with Le vol d'lcare, a short animation of L...

There is a schism between the capacity to understanding and the necessity to simply observe. As one of the most famous ethno- and anthropologist in th...

More than 10,000 street children live in magical, bustling St. Petersburg. But here's Larissa, with her Cirque Upsala: she takes these outcasts and ca...

Emma, 20 years old, wants to discover the truth regarding her parents. How did they meet? Why did her father suddenly disappear? She uses her imaginat...