Switzerland Movies

A chronological selection from choreographies by Jérôme Bel exploring the political aspects of his dance.

GURIA (its a region in western Georgia) is an astute dramedy about everyday life in a village in western Georgia. This poignant, yet humorous slice...

A taciturn Romanian divorcee acquires a hunting rifle and initiates a killing spree.

In northern Albania, ancestral customs still exist, governing the laws of vendetta between families. Sometimes, for generations, an old feud has...

"Prud’hommes" is an immersion into the heart of a judicial court that handles disputes between employers and employees. This specific...

Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and...

A young filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex. In a café in Zurich, she meets a woman her age who tells her about everyday life in...

Hanka visits her lonely grandfather Bobek. For her, it becomes a journey into the past; for him, a confrontation with his life. At the dinner table,...

Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and...

In a town near Calais that looks like the Wild West, big-hearted 50-year-old Lydie shelters Zimako, an unruly, paperless migrant from Togo.

The "requerimiento" was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy of Castile’s divine right to take possession of the New World’s territories...

Dr. Claudia Keller works in the research department of the global chemical company Beyler. The company has pinned all its hopes on the development of...

A young woman returns with her son to an isolated beach on the pacific coast in southern Mexico to find peace with her ghosts.

Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last...

Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to...

"We have a named for fantasy realized: nightmare". Adapted from Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch's "Venus in furs".

Walid, an overweight Lebanese man, is caught in a destructive spiral. He works at his uncle's tennis club but is sent away to build a tennis court....

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother...

When Hugo Pratt passed away in 1995, he was holding an Ethiopian cross in his left hand. In order to understand his enduring love of the black...

An artist develops feelings for her muse, and it drives her mad.