Artfilm Movies

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

The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

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...

Lucienne Schnegg is an energetic little woman. At eighty, she is still at the helm of the "Capitole" cinema. Hired as a secretary in 1949, she became...

Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this documentary, from the literal nomads of North Africa to...

The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990.

A documentary feature about victims and perpetrators involved in restorative justice programs.

A true pioneer of Swiss cinema, Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch (1917-2003) followed an unusual path throughout her life. The daughter of Judeo-Russian...

Philippe Savoy head of the choir at Saint Michael's College in Fribourg is preparing to take his fifty-five students to Palestine for a series of...

For a month, filmmaker Dieter Gränicher lives in an institution, in the village community of the deaf. As an attentive and increasingly familiar...

The film tells the adventurous story of an Arab-Swiss music project, of the search for nuances in times of the clash of cultures between the orient...

Two women and a man suffering from severe depression are accompanied by a camera for a year and a half. The acute phase of their depression is the...