Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower
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Der Imker (2013)
A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, except his love for beekeeping.
Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night (2012)
Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created...
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000)
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by...
Queen of Condoms (2007)
Ceschi and Stamm's documentary tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education...
The Laundry Room (2013)
The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely...
Journey to the Safest Place on Earth (2013)
Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate...
Max Frisch, Citoyen (2008)
Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The...
Into Great Silence (2005)
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea...
Picture of Light (1994)
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.
Special Flight (2011)
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst....
Architecture of Infinity (2019)
How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...