Artfilm Movies

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses.

A documentary feature about architect Santiago Calatrava.

A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers,...

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The...

This 140-minute documentary takes a close look at the story and historical context of a young Swiss man who was beheaded during WW II for supposedly...

This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from February to May 1990, filmmaker Jacqueline Veuve...

arc of the natural world’s evolution from the primeval environment to the Anthropocene and back again premiered in program Death is Green at...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set out in their VW bus on a journey along the...

How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How can chapels turn into places of introspection?...

The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland,...