Artfilm Movies

  • 2013
    Stop-Over

    Stop-Over

    Stop-Over

    62013HD

    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...

    Stop-Over
  • 1998
    Grüningers Fall

    Grüningers Fall

    Grüningers Fall

    8.31998HD

    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...

    Grüningers Fall
  • 2008
    Unwanted Witness

    Unwanted Witness

    Unwanted Witness

    02008HD

    This documentary offers a complex portrait of Hollman Morris, the Colombian war journalist whose multiple award-winning news show Contravía is...

    Unwanted Witness
  • 2008
    The Fortress

    The Fortress

    The Fortress

    6.72008HD

    The personal stories of the people from all around the world waiting for a decision in an asylum-seekers centre in one of most restrictive countries...

    The Fortress
  • 2014
    The Shelter

    The Shelter

    The Shelter

    6.22014HD

    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...

    The Shelter
  • 1993
    Babylon 2

    Babylon 2

    Babylon 2

    91993HD

    The first film about second-generation Swiss immigrants: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, in Switzerland, he could only fall in love with an...

    Babylon 2
  • 2016
    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

    5.62016HD

    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...

    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower
  • 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
  • 2017
    The Paris Opera

    The Paris Opera

    The Paris Opera

    7.22017HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the of how the Paris Opera is run under the direction of Stephane Lissner.

    The Paris Opera
  • 2006
    Exit: The Right to Die

    Exit: The Right to Die

    Exit: The Right to Die

    6.32006HD

    Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The Right to Die profiles that nation's EXIT...

    Exit: The Right to Die
  • 2016
    Raving Iran

    Raving Iran

    Raving Iran

    6.62016HD

    Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they...

    Raving Iran
  • 2007
    Lucie et Maintenant

    Lucie et Maintenant

    Lucie et Maintenant

    02007HD

    In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set out in their VW bus on a journey along the...

    Lucie et Maintenant
  • 1995
    Magic Matterhorn

    Magic Matterhorn

    Magic Matterhorn

    81995HD

    A documentary about entertainment and home, filmed in Switzerland and California.

    Magic Matterhorn
  • 2018
    Shadow Thieves

    Shadow Thieves

    Shadow Thieves

    62018HD

    The film follows five professional photographers in Los Angeles, Latin America, Paris, Berlin and Switzerland in their daily struggle to come by. It...

    Shadow Thieves
  • 2012
    Vibrato

    Vibrato

    Vibrato

    02012HD

    Vibrato
  • 1997
    Meta-Mecano

    Meta-Mecano

    Meta-Mecano

    01997HD

    The Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta, opened in 1996, five years after the Swiss sculptor's death. META MECANO is...

    Meta-Mecano
  • 2005
    Le souffle du désert

    Le souffle du désert

    Le souffle du désert

    92005HD

    A disturbing exploration of what it means to be a man Desert Wind unveils the innermost thoughts of 13 men about their lives and male identity,...

    Le souffle du désert
  • 2006
    Feltrinelli

    Feltrinelli

    Feltrinelli

    02006HD

    Feltrinelli
  • 2011
    Endlich Chef

    Endlich Chef

    Endlich Chef

    02011HD

    Endlich Chef
  • 2011
    Special Flight

    Special Flight

    Special Flight

    6.42011HD

    Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst....

    Special Flight