Label: SWISS FILMS

A year in Lara Gut’s universe, from the victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup title in 2016 to the comeback after an injury at the peak of her career.

The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa

A couple makes love in a hotel. She lives in Switzerland, he lives in Belgrad. What’s been destroyed by war will be reborn in this hotel room.

After five years of studying, Arash is fed up with France. His friends persuade him to join them on one last trip, hoping to change his mind.

Green Party icon Petra Kelly is shot in her sleep by her partner Gert Bastian, an ex-Federal Armed Forces general, before he kills himself.

How well can you know your partner? Patricia and Ikendu have a happy relationship until Ikendu's surprise arrest shatters it.

After a night in jail, April returns to the basement of the luxury hotel where she, along with other women, works as a sex worker.

After years in a juvenile detention center, Spira returns to his neighborhood, but gentrification and demolition excavators are taking hold.

During World War 2, 45,000 psychiatric patients died in French hospitals. Only one facility opposed the carnage: the asylum in Saint-Alban.

An actress, a painter and 3 classically trained musicians came to New York from Belgrade before the Balkan War to pursue their art and their dream.

A thuggish farmer who loves his animals more than his sick wife threatens to lose everything through his behavior.

After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home.

An unconventional portrait of a man whose life motto reminds us of the poets of romanticism: The genius writes its own rules.

A banker smuggling black money catapults himself out of his old life with a dip in the cold lake water.

A touching documentary about the everyday life of Zurich's forgotten youth.

Legend tellers and legend collectors preserve the traditional knowledge of myths and traditions in Valais.

Lena (16) is in love with her brother and would rather indulge in this fantasy than face reality.

A raw, honest look at the relationship between filmmakers, actors, and the characters they jointly create.

A 35mm camera films from a window, with messages from the answering machine in the background. Slowly an imaginary biography unfolds.

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The world we have just entered resembles a futurist machine. It is a colossus of concrete and glass, with a computer heart heart deep inside.

The five protagonists, all 70+, take the audience along on their journey through life and describe what has shaped their lives and what they regret.

Crises, grievances, fear of the future and hope: eight young people search for their place in society in various European countries.

A small notebook filled with the courageous testimonies of 300 people reporting on the atrocities of Congolese mercenaries.

Two shepherds and 800 sheep take on an extraordinary adventure full of challenges, in intimate contact with nature and the elements.

A journey through the times and spaces of the Hotel Jugoslavija. Belgrade's cityscape is still haunted by the Hotel like a mirror held up to a Serbia ...

Alice works in a call center on the outskirts of Zurich. Inspired by her job, she calls lonely grandmothers and pretends to be a granddaughter in need ...

One winter evening, at an empty gas station, young country musician Sami meets beautiful Julia, who has run out of gas. Sami, who’s been living alone ...

The Sound of the Voice tells the story of four people who are passionate about exploring the limits of the human voice in new ways.

Rudolf Elmer has had a remarkable career at a Swiss private bank until he became a whistleblower of the offshore banking business.

Discover the monumental works of art by the anarchist Giovanni Segantini in the idealized natural setting of the high mountains.

A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.

An abandoned house in Athens has become a temporary home for refugees hoping to continue their journey.

Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his own ...

On his 40th birthday, director Thomas Haemmerli learns of the death of his mother. The next shock is seeing his mother's filthy and chaotic apartment. On ...

A man’s head is bursting with thoughts and decisions. A gardener is about to explode – somebody has trampled on her flowerbeds.

Explore the contemporary queer arts scene in Berlin and how perceptions of femininity and masculinity are constructed.

A stag pretends to be a human; with remarkable consequences.

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?

Siblings Emilie and Jacob cannot help feeling a deep love for each other. After being apart for many years, they meet in the mountains.

Can good cause evil? This documentary investigates the effect of Swiss development assistance in Rwanda before the genocide against the Tutsi.

A circus gives the street children of St. Petersburg hope and a chance for a better life.

A portrait of the music collector couple Marcel and Catherine Cellier, who already documented the music of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Moussa has swapped his Kalashnikov for a guitar. The former freedom fighter is now a protest singer.

Dog fights and other blood sports are banned in most countries, but they still are practiced widely in alleyways and backyards around the world.

Against the breathtaking backdrop of the Swiss mountains, 3 extraordinary vocal artists develop traditional yodelling into their own musical language.

A personal take on Turkish history by director Ufuk Emiroğlu. It's a mosaic of a film, which moves freely between documentary, fiction and animation.

Monika Krause, a German student who fell in love with a Cuban captain became the official sex educator of Castro's revolution.

Filming the unfilmable: From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii. Working ...

David Sievekind, young filmmaker, is in search of inspiration. He meets David Lynch, who assures him that the meditation TM is the key to success. But, ...

Simon lives with his older sister in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. He's providing for both of them by stealing expensive ski equipment. With ...

Swiss feminist Iris Meyer and conservative Peter von Roten were unlikely mates who nonetheless had a passionate relationship. This is their story. ENEMIES ...

This short film dares a slightly different view of life in a psychiatric clinic. Screened at Cannes Short Film Corner and Interfilm Berlin.

Join the fantastical musical journey of a student group preparing for a concert on a cruise ship.

Lilly is on the hunt for new customers. But when she meets Bob, even she is at her wit's end.

In this black comedy a woman is stranded on a barren island and has to come to terms with the gnawing lighthouse keeper.

The rise and fall of Swiss cycling legend Hugo Koblet still fascinates today - with a comb tucked in his jersey, groupies, vanilla ice cream.

"Dying. What's so brave about it? It's a feat pulled off by everyone".

Ten years ago, Kurt saved an outdated chairlift from demolition. Since then, he has been operating it himself - stubbornly and in any weather.

The friendship of two boys is at stake when one falls in love with the other's sister.

On the right-wing fringes of the political landscape, ever-louder anti-European, anti-Islamic and nationalist voices can be heard.

Award winning short about two girls navigating their teen years with difficult parents.

Two men, who loved the same woman, meet in the mountains and then starts a inscrutable game.

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a doc road movie that takes him to Europe and the U.S.

Sandra is new in town and does not fit into the cool clique around Nadja and Isa. Then she falls in love with Mike, who also caught Nadja's attention.

A portrait of a teen tennis pro in the making - a sports documentary as dramatic as fiction films such as “Jerry Maguire”.

To atone for the injustice of colonialism, a revolutionary group attacks a Swiss bank.

The Partyqueen Nico is a luxury girl from a wealthy home. At a party she falls in love with Paco, who is her complete opposite.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.