This essay documentary conveis what it means to have been raised in Naples. It is Christianity, volcanoes, and the Camo…
Since Evelin’s amputation of both legs, friends abandoned her. She is stuck in her apartment for years now, moving only…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
The release in 1986 of Karl-Marx-Stadt meant a musical revolution for their generation. This film documents the short l…
With a provocative title, this short film essay delves into the image that documents a rally of the National Democratic…
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Trapped in the structures of a destructive family, with no help from the outside world, a mother and a daughter embrace…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
Turned into a cow herder during the summer in the Swiss Alps, a filmmaker documents her attempts to erect herself as th…
In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all embracing control phantasms, the images of surveillance cameras, …
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
Images, or rather everyday scraps of the town of Bremen, Germany, reach the most unimaginable fantastic situations seei…
Six different people share their experience assuming transgender identities in the most diverse and fascinating ways.
This film transcends the informative documentary on the digital evolution in the film industry, to rather spin a poetic…
After having been living for over two decades in Austria, a father and his daughter travel to Iraq on a journey of redi…
A small town in Austria is duplicated in a new residential project in China. The author of the documentary undertakes a…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its di…
A Cuban psychiatrist, a nurse in Switzerland and a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina; three people in three equidistant pa…
An exhaustive investigation reveals the financial scandal that shook Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, in the middle of Germany, celebrates with particular vigour its “Schütze…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
When Switzerland became involved in Ruanda in the 1960s, it entailed a dangerous game with the power elite from the sta…
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie tha…
Enric Marco, ex-president of the Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologisi…
The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 …
The Israeli filmmaker Tommer Heymann uses his video camera to document the relationship he has with his mother, a daugh…
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