Namibia Crossings (2004)

A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing “Jurassic Park” moment in genetics.

해발 1,300m 알프스의 깊은 계곡. 그곳에 누구도 쉬이 들여다 보지 못했던 고요함의 세계가 있다. 해가 뜨고 달이 지고 별들이 나타났다 사라지길 반복하는 계절 속에서 영원을 간직한 공간을, 그들만의 시간을 만들어 나가는 이들이 있다. 그리고 우리는 그저 조용히 그 일상의 깊이를 바라본다. 처음이자 마지막이 될 카르투지오 수도원의 일상을 담은 침묵으로의 여행.

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome as they are fascinating, inhabitants of nightmarish biomechanical worlds.

세계에서 가장 권위 있는 공연예술극장, 파리 바스티유 오페라극장. 20세기 음악 혁명을 이끈 작곡가 쇤베르크의 오페라 '모세와 아론'이 2015년 가을, 파리 오페라극장에서 초연된다. 한 편의 오페라를 무대에 올리기까지, 당신의 상상을 뛰어넘는 백스테이지의 모든 것이 공개된다.

A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation technique.

Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs and eight hundred sheep. An exceptional adventure is about to begin: they brave the cold and the bad weather day in day out, with a canvas cover and animal skins as their only shelter at night. This saga reveals a tough and exacting profession, requiring constant improvisation and unflinching attention to nature, the animals and the cosmos. An eventful journey with surprise encounters, moving reunions with farmer friends, nostalgic figures of country life that is shrinking away fast. Αn adventure film, a contemporary road movie, a reflection of our current world, which takes us back to our roots and our inner questions.

Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

In the course of living long months with a group of Iranian illegals in Athens, the director examines this radical choice of pursuing a better life through the most perilous of possibilities: clandestinity.

An analysis of the current state of democracy in Switzerland

The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the tenants who have been housed here by the city’s social services department is not something to be taken for granted. Although the laundry room is normally located in the cellar, the tenants in this building share a tiny laundry room off the entrance hall because the cellar is reserved for prostitution. To maintain order and cleanliness, the landlord hires Claudina, a new “laundry woman”.

알래스카반도 끝에서 영화감독 로만의 어린 시절 꿈이 이루어졌다. 곰 전문 연구가 데이비드와 함께 로만은 야생 곰을 발견한다. 지척에서 야생 곰 가족을 발견한 그들은 야생 곰들이 생존을 위해 분투하고 치열하게 싸우는 모습들을 목격한다. (2021년 제6회 울주세계산악영화제) 알래스카 야생에서 곰과 함께한 3개월, 이 관찰의 이정(里程)은 발루, 부르노, 플러피, 그리고 루나와의 만남과 이별이기도 하다. (2021년 제6회 울주세계산악영화제/이정진)

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bär, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands. Rudolf Elmer: from insider to critic.

The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.

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 stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

폭탄, 전쟁, 상복 차림으로 울부짖는 여인들, 폐허가 된 도시. 이것이 서구 미디어가 비추는 이라크의 현재 모습이다. 이와 함께 발랄한 음악, 우아한 옷을 차려 입은 바그다드의 남자들, 현대적인 도시 풍경 등 수십 년 전의 이미지들이 나란히 비춰진다. 어쩌다 이렇게 된 것일까? 감독은 전세계에 흩어져 살고 있는 자신의 가족 이야기를 들려준다

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

It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry ritual takes place, resulting in confrontations which can sometimes turn violent. Those on duty at the shelter have the difficult task of “triaging the poor”: the women and children first, then the men. Although the total capacity at the shelter is 100, only 50 “chosen ones” will be admitted inside and granted a warm meal and a bed. The others know it will be a long night.

The film about Max Bill (1908-1994) moves between the dynamic fields of art, aesthetics and politics. Max Bill was probably the most important swiss artist of the 20th century and the most famous student to come out of the legendary Bauhaus in Dessau. He was an ardent anti-fascist and all his avant-garde work as an artist, sculptor, architect and typographer showed a social responsibility and environmental awareness right through his life. His views have become incredibly topical.