Switzerland Movies

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the...

A documentary about healers from the Swiss canton of Appenzell.

A documentary about homeless people living in Switzerland.

The film tells of the radical life-search by the Swiss writer Paul Nizon, born 1929 in Bern, Switzerland, who became what “he was meant to...

The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her husband on a mission to the jungle in Indonesia...

The protests of 1968 had a significant impact on the great cities of the world. But people like to forget that the periphery went through the same...

A collage of five people from different cultures living in Switzerland. They reflect on life by looking at their origins. The liveliness and...

An 80-year-old woman spends her time at a bus station. She’s waiting for the right moment to leave this place forever.

Rosa is from Croatia and lives in Switzerland, with her husband who depends on her care. She takes care of everything. Her children have grown up and...

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering...

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. A group of friends get together to make a film about their experiences growing up in suburban...

Hunkeler's last official act went awry: a diamond courier evaded surveillance, the goods ended up in the Basel sewage system, and Lüdi suffered...

In his classroom a philosophy teacher opens the discussion on the place of religion in society. Out of his course he faces the realities of the...

A film about the Swiss Italian poet Fabio Pusterla and his creative poetic process, his struggle to find an honest language, one which adheres to the...

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...