Jacqueline Veuve Filmes

The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990.

Marcellin Babey, from the Swiss Jura, is thirty-five years old. He works in an old workshop in the heart of Lausanne, concious that building...

Claude Lebet, luthier, had originally wanted to be a parson, like his father before him. However, after one year in theological school, he left to...

A tale, told by his five daughters, of the life and death of a man very representative of a Protestant Switzerland in the early 20th century where...

A collection of woodworkers' portraits, among them carvers and coopers, roof tilers and toymakers.

The "tavillonneur" or shingle-maker cuts out and fits shingles or wood tiles into place. Shingles (called "tavillons" in Switzerland), are one of the...

Like his grandfather and his father before him, François Pernet is a mountain peasant and works with wood. He trained as a carpenter and...

Long ago, there were no roads to the chalets in the high mountain pastures. All the material for a new chalet had to be carried up by man or mule, so...