Artfilm Movies

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly and astutely....

What Swiss director Stefan Schweitert did for accordion music and for yodeling (Accordion Tribe, Cinequest, 2005; Echoes of Home, Cinequest 2008) he n...

The father tends his large garden with the utmost precision. The mother irons shirts and regrets that the father never wears T-shirts. The father like...

Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Margu...

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

The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries i...

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

A contemplation on night travelling in various weather conditions through seemingly endless landscapes in Europe, only briefly disrupted by shreds of...

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.

Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate stor...

Switzerland was one of the last countries in the world to grant women the right to vote. This film guides us through a century of Swiss history, traci...

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve st...

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, founded...

It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am),from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an e...