Artfilm Movies

They came to Switzerland in the hope of a better life when they returned home. Thirty or forty years later, they're still here. Now in their...

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a...

A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.

Documentary about Swiss grocery store pioneer Gottlieb Duttweiler

Architects from Europe, America and China are invited to a Chinese provincial town. Within several months, they are to construct a park in Jinhua,...

How do you cope if things turn out differently than you'd imagined? Helena (19) and Jonas (11) are people in great need of support, putting their...

A contemplation on night travelling in various weather conditions through seemingly endless landscapes in Europe, only briefly disrupted by shreds of...

Both aspire to remain true to themselves and to build their lives freely. This bold vision in the 1950s is that of Katharina von Arx and Freddy...

In Protestant Zurich, people with money avoid flaunting it. Wealth fascinates, but it also arouses jealousy. Four wealthy Zurichers are in search of...

In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the heart of Jerusalem, six different Christian denominations, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syrian, Roman...

Arami Ullón must return to Paraguay to make an important decision: what will happen to her sick mother, Mirna? The heartfelt gaze of the...

Rudolf Buth, 86, leaves his 45-year-old apartment due to loneliness and moves in with Pauline Pappert and Therese Heinze, also 86, who have lived...

After 30 years of chain smoking, Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti sets out on a journey - three times! - to wean himself off cigarettes. He departs...

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