Filmmaker Richard Dindo's unique documentary uses historical reenactments and speculative "interviews" of historical figures to paint a fascinating...

The tragic life of 19th century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, as told by characters that knew him.

A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at...

A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas

The Grüninger case from Switzerland. This is a documentary about a police officer who showed civil courage back in the forties when he led many...

A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet...

A man turning 50 (Walter Faber) narrates his liaisons with three women: Hanna, who was pregnant and left him many years ago in Zurich; Ivy, who...

A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of...

During World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S. fueled a controversy about collective...

During the summer of 1968, students from all over Mexico gathered in the capital to demand democracy. The Olympic Games were about to be held and...

Portrait of the German and Jewish painter who lived during the war in the south of France, in Villefranche-sur-Mer, where she painted 769 gouaches...

A three-part documentary about four young men who were active members of the Zurich youth movement in the early 1980s and died tragically as a...

A documentary film about Paul Gauguin’s final years in Tahiti and on the Marquesas Islands. The filming of his paintings is set in the magnificent...

A film about three young women aged between 20 and 25, who all have an attempted suicide in their past.

With his discrete gaze, filmmaker Richard Dindo observes the busy comings and goings of a maternity ward in Geneva. His uplifting film depicts the...

The first sequence shows us an elderly woman in the process of taking a test which seems extremely simple. However, the patient cannot remember the...

This documentary about the canton of Geneva’s University Hospital focuses less on the technology of modern medicine, or the ubiquity of doctors...

In 1941, the writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet fled the Nazi-occupied zone of France, arriving in Nice. There they met and befriended Henri...

Portraits of some Swiss men and women, who fought between 1936 and 1938 in the International Brigades to defend the Spanish Republic against the...