Glückspilze

Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The Right to Die profiles that nation's EXIT...

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

A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.

A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a stylist on the bicycle and in life, and a huge...

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American...

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...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea...

“Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The film creates polyphonies of soulful...

Modern Amazons are fierce heroines. They are ready to fight for what is important to them. Without explaining, without compromising, always...

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...

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