Switzerland Movies

A sunny Saturday afternoon in Zurich. In the middle of a crowded square a businessman is lying on a bench, seemingly asleep. Someplace else, a teenage...

A documentary about a proposed military training area in Rothenthurm, Central Switzerland, and the village's resistance to those plans.

An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents p...

A young chef cooks up a mysterious dish.

Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi...

A wealthy Japanese patron, enamored with Rousseau, offers an atypical and versatile filmmaker the opportunity to freely adapt Jean-Jacques Rousseau's...

An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentr...

The hills of Lausanne, Switzerland, have become a Mecca for roller-skaters and Ivano has become a prince among them. Ivano rises above the ordinary an...

A Polish telephone company closes its gates. One last task remains to be done: The deassembly of the public telephones belonging to the company.

More than a land, it is from the lake that this son comes. Raised by a father fisherman, he learned his noises and currents, maybe also its hardness a...

Through his art, Adolf Wölfli, once a psychiatric patient at the Waldau Asylum, created a universe that defies imagination. On a journey through the E...

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independen...

In 2021, an extreme heatwave gave rise to huge wildfires in the vast subarctic forests of Sakha, a northeastern republic in Siberia. The village of Sh...

Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malaso...

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

A poetic and critical look at a society that, identifying itself with the masses, has decided to exclude those who cultivate their individuality. Lone...

In March 2025, the Zurich cultural institution «Zukunft» was forced to close its doors for good. This prompted Stephan Schulz and Julian Kirchner to p...

As part of the celebrations marking the 750th anniversary of Lausanne Cathedral, Hans-Christoph Rademann conducts a monumental work of sacred music: G...