Switzerland Movies

A young filmmaker shoots a thriller in a retirement home, with its own dwellers.

Was this father really a teacher, judge, politician and architect? In any case, the character being depicted exists for real on the screen, in the sce...

Time of My Life is a movie documentary project born and initiate in spring 2011 in West Switzerland. Ski, skateboard and snowboard movies are usually...

The loss of virginity is a unique event in a woman's life. Virginity only matters among people. They have contrived it, propagated the concept through...

A serial killer terrorizes Zurich. Every night he pays a visit to a young woman who works at a gas station. He has mixed feelings about her..

Part of a series of short commissioned works by Visions du Réel to celebrate the festival's twentieth anniversary that explore views of the future.

Performance. Score and 199 slides, 46 of them black. The text is read at a lectern, the slides are projected, a dimmed room light is switched on and o...

The Shuar Indians live on the western edge of the tropical rainforest, between the Amazon lowlands in the east and the Andean highlands in the west, o...

“My Paradise” shows an intermediate world, a model world with real people. A model Dong's father created as an idea of an Asian paradise serves as the...

In between 1984--1985, Distel worked on Die Reise (The Trip),a stunning train and railroad field recording montage. Location recordings were made in...

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of...