Switzerland Movies

The NAGRA (Swiss National Association for the Storage of Radioactive Waste) plans to build a permanent waste disposal site in Wellenberg, Canton of Nidwalden. A regional citizens’ action group is formed to protest against it.

During the usual drinking-out evening 2 friends are having a hard time remembering what their chat is about.

In late 18th century Venice, in a convent school for girls, Teresa, a student with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.

What if chamber music returned to the drawing rooms? This double programme reconnects with the origins of the genre by inviting audiences into the homes of Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich for original concerts, performed in an intimate and privileged sett...

In Lausanne, Switzerland, a group of young women in their twenties embark, while working or studying, on making ethical and dissident pornographic films.

Delusional Irish poets Clyde and Weston ditch their stalker/fan and blow her life savings on a road trip to the Swiss Alps in search of spiritual enlightenment. What follows is a collision with a UFO hoax, an earth-worshipping cult, a fog-bound mountain barn,...

A father and his estranged son are confronted with each other on their way to the funeral home where the body of their mother and wife is laid out.

In a decadent Circus in the middle of a large city today, the "Strongest Man in the World" can no longer lift his elephant. Every artist does his best, but the once successful circus has lost its public. The trapeze girl decides to risk her own life, in a desp...

The ten-piece afro-helvetic band “King Kora” starts a tour through Gambia, the home country of its kora player and singer Lamin Jobarteh. The band travels for nine days on a boat on the river Gambia, stopping at eight villages and cities along the shore to per...

Under a burning sun, Adel and Moïse try to come to terms with the loss of their father.

Meriç's father is abducted by the secret police. Traumatised by this event, Meriç searches for possible explanations and comes to believe that his father has been stolen by thieves. In his imagination, he brings his father back and hides him in the cellar.

A reflection on the relationship between science, politics and the media. And on how we as humans tend to look for scapegoats and screaming narratives.

On a remote volcanic island that everybody wants to leave, little Nana learns to stay. Her mother, Nia, went into exile right after she was born and Nana grows up in the family of her father. One day, the family learns that Nia is ill. Nana begins to develop h...

A piñata experiences the same fateful day over and over again, on which it is bought by a girl and finds death at her garden party. Shocked, the piñata tries to break out of this eternal cycle.

A coyote loses its mate and pups in an attack by wolves. Plagued by human emotions, the coyote attempts to process what it has experienced.

Dihya reveals her world, her secrets, her stories. She reigns in this dehumanized world, like a queen, a warrior.

Clara and Mika, a young couple, leave for their very first romantic week-end. An unusual country lodge awaits them for a two-day period of rest and recuperation. The appearance of a curious and disturbing character will interfere with their stay at the lodge....

The World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, performs pieces by Rossini, Bartók, and Beethoven in Victoria Hall, Geneva in July 1995 in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of United Nations.

Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.

A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there.