Switzerland Movies

Thirty-eight-year-old Boris is an unemployed film buff at the end of his unemployment benefits. Benoît, thirty-six, is an entrepreneur, a...

Stranded in space for thirty years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging.

Set against the backdrop of the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, in the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s defeat, President Harry S. Truman, Prime...

Daniel Berger, a devious and corrupt civil servant, is willing to do anything to keep his empire of embezzlement intact. One day, he receives a visit...

A man brushes his teeth and goes to bed, but again and again his sleep is disturbed...

Humans shape, change, and dominate nature. Uniting pleasure and respect remains a utopian dream. A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.

Activist brigades organise a green-fingered resistance against destructive plants and neglected overgrowth around their villages in Galicia. The...

In a village in the Argentinian countryside, the inhabitants lead a life characterised by nature and routine. When a light appears to the elderly...

A film based on Jacques Chessex' novel of the same title; featuring André Wilms as Chessex and Bruno Ganz as Arthur Bloch, Swiss Jew killed by...

Two women and a man suffering from severe depression are accompanied by a camera for a year and a half. The acute phase of their depression is the...

Alfred is a constipated painter, he feels used and doesn’t paint anymore. While in transit in an airport, he goes to the bathroom and starts...

The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It...

In an anonymous city, a person collapses, appearing to have lost consciousness. Some strangers pass by, others embrace her. In a solitary quest for...

A young Swiss woman searches for her Armenian roots. Various lovingly animated drawers of the simultaneously accumulating family archive open. This...

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

In northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This...

“Many years ago, men and lions used to live in peace together and were allies. They protected each other. But little by little men forgot about...

This short movie is about pro skier and activist Elisabeth Gerritzen, whose fights are as important to her as her sport. In the mountains, she is...