Artfilm Movies

  • 1995
    Signer's Suitcase

    Signer's Suitcase

    Signer's Suitcase

    6.21995HD

    SIGNERS KOFFER is a kind of road movie across Europa. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the...

    Signer's Suitcase
  • 2015
    Above and Below

    Above and Below

    Above and Below

    6.12015HD

    Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of...

    Above and Below
  • 2013
    The Laundry Room

    The Laundry Room

    The Laundry Room

    02013HD

    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...

    The Laundry Room
  • 2009
    Bassidji

    Bassidji

    Bassidji

    02009HD

    For three years, Mehran Tamadon immersed himself into the very heart of the most extremist supporters of the Islamic republic of Iran (the Bassidjis)...

    Bassidji
  • 2014
    Die Demokratie ist los!

    Die Demokratie ist los!

    Die Demokratie ist los!

    02014HD

    An analysis of the current state of democracy in Switzerland

    Die Demokratie ist los!
  • 2008
    Max Frisch, Citoyen

    Max Frisch, Citoyen

    Max Frisch, Citoyen

    02008HD

    Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a character hardly found today. The...

    Max Frisch, Citoyen
  • 2007
    Echoes of Home

    Echoes of Home

    Echoes of Home

    6.72007HD

    What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a...

    Echoes of Home
  • 2012
    Winter Nomads

    Winter Nomads

    Winter Nomads

    7.22012HD

    Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which...

    Winter Nomads
  • 1997
    Balifilm

    Balifilm

    Balifilm

    7.21997HD

    Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the...

    Balifilm
  • 1994
    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light

    6.71994HD

    A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

    Picture of Light
  • 2013
    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

    6.32013HD

    Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate...

    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth
  • 2011
    Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand

    Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand

    Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand

    02011HD

    Women bring children into the world. But when, as in the case of Sandra, Jasmine and Jennifer, you're not yet eighteen and your belly is starting to...

    Mit dem Bauch durch die Wand
  • 2008
    Max Bill: The Master's Vision

    Max Bill: The Master's Vision

    Max Bill: The Master's Vision

    62008HD

    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...

    Max Bill: The Master's Vision
  • 2015
    Tibetan Warrior

    Tibetan Warrior

    Tibetan Warrior

    102015HD

    The true story of one man's fight for freedom. For more than 60 years Tibetans have been fighting Chinese oppression. But their non-violent struggle...

    Tibetan Warrior
  • 2006
    Between Worlds

    Between Worlds

    Between Worlds

    02006HD

    The revealing life story of Güli Dogan conveys impressively and in exemplary pictures the long and difficult path of a successful integration....

    Between Worlds
  • 2000
    Yugodivas

    Yugodivas

    Yugodivas

    52000HD

    Five New York divas close up. The thing that in addition to their friendship links these gifted, confident and beautiful women; a painter, an actress...

    Yugodivas
  • 2012
    Eigentlich wollten wir zurückkehren

    Eigentlich wollten wir zurückkehren

    Eigentlich wollten wir zurückkehren

    02012HD

    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...

    Eigentlich wollten wir zurückkehren
  • 2004
    Namibia Crossings

    Namibia Crossings

    Namibia Crossings

    02004HD

    “Namibia Crossings” takes a trip through a country of archaic beauty and bizarre contradictions. The film creates polyphonies of soulful...

    Namibia Crossings
  • 1979
    Story of Night

    Story of Night

    Story of Night

    6.81979HD

    It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am), from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly...

    Story of Night
  • 2007
    Dust

    Dust

    Dust

    6.42007HD

    A look at the pervasive power of dust from its tiny particles settling in unseen places to its ability to cause illnesses and create the cosmos.

    Dust