Switzerland Movies

We enter the film, like we access Gorgona, by the sea. A rock bristling with greenery, surrounded by the dark blue waves of the Mediterranean. On...

In the heart of the Jura mountains, a call resounds through the forest. The silhouette of a Eurasian lynx creeps through the trees. A male is looking...

Lena is a cheerful student who firmly believes in happiness and the good in people. As part of a social project, she is sent by the office as a...

For mysterious reasons, two watchmen are made to guard access to the river in an area of Lausanne where retirees and immigrant families live. Through...

Who said that old age has to be boring? Golden Age opens the doors to the Palace, a retirement home of the kind that you have never seen before, in...

A roads leads through a barren desert landscape. A car parks in front of a motel. A man with a box under his arm gets out and storms into room...

Outlines the history of 40 years of the skinhead subculture, beginning with the most recent versions of the culture.

In 1806, the collapse of Mount Rossberg triggered one of Switzerland's most devastating natural disasters, which obliterated the village of Goldau,...

In Japan, the term 'hikikomori' designates people who isolate themselves from society. Nanako, aged 24, joins in the activities of an organisation...

Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, was declared a “miracle” after she survived a plane crash as a child, deep in the...

Hundred-year-old Edith Ballantyne fled from the Nazis in 1938 and found her purpose as president of the Women's International League for Peace and...

The Chagrin Valley assisted living facility for dementia sufferers is home to a fragile and ageing population. Punctuated by fleeting conflicts,...

A pediatrician's chance encounter with an old acquaintance inspires her ill-timed confession to a past drunken sexual daliance while her husband...

A short film by Gitta Gsell.

A cinematic time capsule with over 1,400 hours of submitted material from all regions of Switzerland gives unknown insights about the life of Swiss...

In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his...

A film about kids with little else to offer apart from a well honed body, an overabundance of hormones and a high from their last line. Teenagers Nia...

Bernardo is a police officer from Tessin. Though scared of water, he's forced to investigate a series of disappearances on the edges of the Lake...

A strict examination process regulates the population’s meat consumption: those who want to eat meat must kill an animal. Young reporter Elie...