After twenty years of exile near Geneva, Switzerland, Ustad Hossein Arman, a popular Afghan singer, returns to Kabul to…
(Re)immersing himself in body building, David Nicolas Parel endeavours to follow his younger brother as he trains for t…
This award-winning animated short film tells the story of Wally, an eight-year-old girl whose life is increasingly turn…
Against the stunning setting of modern Estonia, this film explores a singing tradition of mysterious power called the R…
The Swiss singer Stephan Eicher and his brother Erich embark on a musical journey to their Yenish origins. The two toge…
Through a direct cinema style and taking the point of view of a faithful follower of his campaign, this documentary fol…
Island of Borneo, Malay territory. Built as a documentary thriller, the film portrays the resistance of the Penan indig…
The Earth's population is increasing. Genetically engineered crops shall secure the world's nourishment. And soy is one…
This beautiful film is about the meeting of craftsmanship and art at the St Gallen Art Foundry, in Shanghai.
In remote areas of Cambodia, Miss Rain, a woman haunted by her tragic past, makes a journey to the place where she lost…
Fragmented and multilingual, this short film is a random journey through the images of the author's quotidian world to …
Discover the life and work of Walter Pfeiffer, a Swiss photographer who at his 70 years of age is still at the forefron…
An immigrant from Romania tries to give life to his picturesque puppet on the streets of a Swiss city, a job that repre…
Through a kind of intimate trial, we unveil the painful case of Moriom, a young Bangladeshi woman with a mysterious loo…
An intimate and minimalistic approach allows us to witness the daily routine of Mrs. Loosli in her home in the Swiss Mo…
Valzeina, an isolated village in Switzerland. Within a house run by the government to retain rejected asylum seekers, a…
This funny and inspiring film follows the eccentric René Wiedmar, a professional high-speed yodeler, over the course of…
Filmmaker Pierre-Alain Meier travels to Senegal in the hope of understanding the story behind the shipwreck of a 30-yea…
Welcome to the Wild West. That is, a Spanish town located between Murcia and Almeria where Sergio Leone filmed several …
The author of this captivating documentary, a man at risk of losing the ability to see, makes a first-person essay on t…
A young Chinese entrepreneur decides to spend a weekend in a new apartment in the city of Kadakaisi, a replica of the C…
It is Egypt after the fall of Mubarak. A young Egyptian filmmaker films his Christian parents during the tense course o…
Musician and singer from London Wayne Paul returns to the East London neighborhood where he grew up, a place where a vi…
From Switzerland to Zambia, via the Amazon and Peru, TRADING PARADISE is a critical behind-the-scenes look at the commo…
"Libre" an "Triple A" are two hippie communes established in the 70's in Huerfano Valley, Colorado. Many years after it…
The film follows the European tour of Mummenschanz, one of the most creative and unique theater companies in the world.
In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
In the fairytale city of St. Petersburg, 8,500 children live on the streets but the innovative circus Upsala and its di…
A documentary about Henriette Zéphir, a french woman who began to paint “pushed” by a spiritual presence she felt by he…
The portrait of Yvonne Robert, a ninety-year-old woman with immeasurable wisdom who poured into naive painting all the …
A Cuban psychiatrist, a nurse in Switzerland and a shepherd in Bosnia Herzegovina; three people in three equidistant pa…
In a world where pollution is already a commodity, this fascinating financial thriller reveals the cracks in the tradin…
An exhaustive investigation reveals the financial scandal that shook Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, to film the Northern Lights.
The film tells the story of Marcel Cellier who traveled to Eastern Europe, where he collected and documented sounds tha…
This film invites the viewer to actively participate in the making of meaning, so that the central theme of the film an…
The End of Time is a cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler which explores our perception of time.
When Switzerland became involved in Ruanda in the 1960s, it entailed a dangerous game with the power elite from the sta…
Between 1950 and 1966 thousands of men moved up to the Alps in the Valais, a natural landscape of rocks and ice. They b…
Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie tha…
TOUMAST – GUITARS AND KALASHNIKOVS retraces a part of recent history of the Tuaregs. Theirs is a fragmented history mad…
A day in the life of Tatyana Prokopenko, a courageous woman from Mailuu-Suu, an all-but ghost town in the former Soviet…
Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apo…
Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: Cd's, i…
Through the creations of various contemporary artists, the film rehearses an inspiring exploration of the relationship …
Best Documentary Films
