Movies: Artfilm

  • 2005
    Into Great Silence

    Into Great Silence (2005)

    Into Great Silence

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    An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think abou...

    Into Great Silence
  • 2015
    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared (2015)

    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

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    Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CDs, iPods, instruments?...

    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared
  • 2018
    Genesis 2.0

    Genesis 2.0 (2018)

    Genesis 2.0

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    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....

    Genesis 2.0
  • 2017
    The Paris Opera

    The Paris Opera (2017)

    The Paris Opera

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

    The Paris Opera
  • 2014
    The Shelter

    The Shelter (2014)

    The Shelter

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    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 sh...

    The Shelter
  • 2012
    Winter Nomads

    Winter Nomads (2012)

    Winter Nomads

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    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 e...

    Winter Nomads
  • 2016
    Zen for Nothing

    Zen for Nothing (2016)

    Zen for Nothing

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    Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autumn, winter and spring in the adventures of monastic life. The young woman is Sabine Timoteo from Swi...

    Zen for Nothing
  • 1994
    Picture of Light

    Picture of Light (1994)

    Picture of Light

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

    Picture of Light
  • 2008
    Max Bill: The Master's Vision

    Max Bill: The Master's Vision (2008)

    Max Bill: The Master's Vision

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    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...

    Max Bill: The Master's Vision
  • 2016
    Raving Iran

    Raving Iran (2016)

    Raving Iran

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    Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their ...

    Raving Iran
  • 2015
    Above and Below

    Above and Below (2015)

    Above and Below

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    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 challenges and beauty in uncomfortable places: Rick & Cindy, Godfather Lalo in the flood channels ...

    Above and Below
  • 2007
    Queen of Condoms

    Queen of Condoms (2007)

    Queen of Condoms

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    Ceschi and Stamm's documentary tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education Minister. After 20 years in Cuba, Krause set the Cuban sexual revolution in motion: in favor of a wom...

    Queen of Condoms
  • 2011
    Special Flight

    Special Flight (2011)

    Special Flight

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    Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their na...

    Special Flight
  • 2010
    David Wants to Fly

    David Wants to Fly (2010)

    David Wants to Fly

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

    David Wants to Fly
  • 2013
    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth (2013)

    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

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    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 storage sites all over the world. More than 10,000 additional tons join them every year. It is the most ...

    Journey to the Safest Place on Earth
  • 2019
    Bear-Like

    Bear-Like (2019)

    Bear-Like

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    At the far end of the Alaskan peninsula, for filmmaker Roman Droux a childhood dream comes true. He discovers together with the bear researcher David Bittner the universe of wild grizzlies. The two adventurists face bears at smelling-distance, experi...

    Bear-Like
  • 2010
    Toumast - Entre Guitare et Kalashnikov

    Toumast - Entre Guitare et Kalashnikov (2010)

    Toumast - Entre Guitare et Kalashnikov

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    Toumast - Entre Guitare et Kalashnikov
  • 1989
    Kick That Habit

    Kick That Habit (1989)

    Kick That Habit

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    Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning of our l...

    Kick That Habit
  • 2010
    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense (2010)

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

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    When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, amon...

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
  • 2002
    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)

    Gambling, Gods and LSD

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    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...

    Gambling, Gods and LSD