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1. Queen of Condoms (La Reina del Condon)

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 woman's right to sexual fulfillment and legal abortion, and against exclusion of homosexuals, she acquired the title "Queen of Condoms". A film about potent female agitators, staunch macho men and Caribbean love lives.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

2. Exit: The Right to Die (Exit - Le droit de mourir)

Switzerland is presently the only country in the world where suicide assistance is legal. Exit: The Right to Die profiles that nation's EXIT organization, which for over twenty years has provided volunteers who counsel and accompany the terminally-ill and severely handicapped towards a death of their choice.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

3. Remue-ménage (Remue-ménage)

(Remue-ménage)

4. Hugo Koblet - The Charming Cyclist (Hugo Koblet - Pédaleur de charme)

Zurich-born Hugo Koblet was the first international cycling star of the post-war period. He was a stylist on the bicycle and in life, and a huge heartthrob. Koblet had a meteoric rise and won the Giro d'Italia in 1950. Once he had reached the zenith of his career, Koblet was put under pressure by overly ambitious officials and ended up ruining his health with drugs. In 1954, he married a well-known model and they became a celebrity dream couple. After his athletic career ended, Koblet began to lose his footing. Threatened by bankruptcy, he crashed his Alfa into a tree.

5. The Congress of Penguins (Der Kongress der Pinguine)

(Der Kongress der Pinguine)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

6. Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower (Jean Ziegler, l'optimisme de la volonté)

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 stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.

7. The Laundry Room (La clé de la chambre à lessive)

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 unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the tenants who have been housed here by the city’s social services department is not something to be taken for granted. Although the laundry room is normally located in the cellar, the tenants in this building share a tiny laundry room off the entrance hall because the cellar is reserved for prostitution. To maintain order and cleanliness, the landlord hires Claudina, a new “laundry woman”.

8. Illégitime (Illégitime)

(Illégitime)

9. Balifilm

Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the island of Bali. The soundtrack is a live recording of eight Gamelan musicians playing the bronze and wooden instruments of Indonesia during the projection of the film. balifilm is a personal, lyrical observation and expression of the creative pulse of an extraordinary culture.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

10. David Wants to Fly

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

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

11. Hardcore Chambermusic (Hardcore Chambermusic)

This documentary follows swiss improvisation musicians and tells there stories.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

12. The Shelter (L'abri)

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 shelter have the difficult task of “triaging the poor”: the women and children first, then the men. Although the total capacity at the shelter is 100, only 50 “chosen ones” will be admitted inside and granted a warm meal and a bed. The others know it will be a long night.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

13. Offshore: Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy (Offshore: Elmer und das Bankgeheimnis)

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bär, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy law on the Cayman Islands. Rudolf Elmer: from insider to critic.

14. A Home Far Away

The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husband, Edgar Snow, is world famous. A pioneer fascinated by China, he is the first journalist to film and interview Mao Tse-tung. Suspected by the American authorities of Communist sympathies, Ed and Lois are blacklisted. Together with their two small children, they go to Switzerland, mid-way between China and America, where they find a new home. A story of revolution, utopia, disillusionment, and hope.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

15. Mirr (Mirr)

(Mirr)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

16. Someone Besides You

Along with several courageous psychiatrists and their clients, the author sets out to film a documentary road movie that takes him to Switzerland, Europe, and the U.S. On their travels in mobile homes, they explore the depths of the human psyche in search of answers to the question: What is the human mind and how does it behave in psychotic extreme situations?

17. The Mindful Revolution (Die neue Achtsamkeit)

The revolution of mindfulness meditation in the business world - a critical look behind the facade of a modern, spiritual phenomenon.

18. The Beast Within (The Beast Within)

(The Beast Within)

19. Second Hand Heroes (Widerstand Brockenhaus – Vom Wegwerfen und Wiederverwerten)

Documentary about thrift shops in Berne, Switzerland and how they want people to recycle and re-use instead of throw away.

20. Middle of the Moment

Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this documentary, from the literal nomads of North Africa to the more metaphorical kind of wanderer, such as American poet and ex-pat Robert Lax. Humbert and Penzel focus especially on the nomad's paradoxical ability to fully inhabit every moment while remaining coolly detached from specific locales and anxious thoughts about the past or future.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.