Second Hand Heroes

Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the po...

Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with...

Since the conflict in Darfur spread to the eastern border regions of Chad in 2005, some 13,000 peopl...

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

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and s...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...

MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary lif...

Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A yo...

In their very own ways, scientists, artists and wandering souls search in the inhospitable and mythi...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting...

A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, ex...

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of M...

This 140-minute documentary takes a close look at the story and historical context of a young Swiss...

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a st...