Artfilm Filmes

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and subtle portrait about ageing as a prostitute, a...

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

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

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

Documentary account of a man’s life in the face of imminent death – Francisco Varela's story told affectionately and gently, touchingly...

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...

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...

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...

The film portrays people with different time consciousness. A computer scientist works non-stop. Only when she gets home can she relax. A young...

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created...

In Protestant Zurich, people with money avoid flaunting it. Wealth fascinates, but it also arouses jealousy. Four wealthy Zurichers are in search of...