1. Langi Ziit (Langi Ziit)
(Langi Ziit)
2. Switzerland the Beautiful
In this Traveltalk series short we learn that four million ethnic French, German and Italian people live in Switzerland. The Alps and their important part in the country's history is noted. We view vividly-coloured alpine wildflowers which cover the mountain meadows in the spring. We see rushing mountain streams, fed by melting snows, and then learn of colourful alpine chalets and traditional wood-carving amongst other highlights.
3. Heidi in China
In 1946, Heidi is entrusted to a Swiss family by her father. He will never come back for her. Today, François Yang questions his mother about her past. What follows is a journey to China, a quest to reconstruct memory. Through contact with her brothers and sister, Heidi measures the extent of the drama experienced by her family that remained in China, persecuted by the Communist Party.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
4. Albert Anker. Malstunden bei Raffael (Albert Anker. Malstunden bei Raffael)
With his vivid oil paintings, Albert Anker captured Swiss folk life like no other. Together with musician Endo Anaconda we discover the "Anker-House", Anker's old studio.
5. Facing the Mirror (Im Spiegel)
A documentary about homeless people living in Switzerland.
6. Nemesis (Nemesis)
The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
7. Rio Branco (Rio Branco)
(Rio Branco)
8. La Guerre des centimes (La Guerre des centimes)
(La Guerre des centimes)
9. Václavské náměstí (Václavské náměstí)
(Václavské náměstí)
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. Stealing Africa
Zambia's copper resources have not made the country rich. Virtually all Zambia's copper mines are owned by corporations. In the last ten years, they've extracted copper worth $29 billion but Zambia is still ranked one of the twenty poorest countries in the world. So why hasn't copper wealth reduced poverty in Zambia? Once again it comes down to the issue of tax, or in Zambia's case, tax avoidance and the use of tax havens. Tax avoidance by corporations costs poor countries and estimated $160 billion a year, almost double what they receive in international aid. That's enough to save the lives of 350,000 children aged five or under every year. For every $1 given in aid to a poor country, $10 drains out. Vital money that could help a poor country pay for healthcare, schools, pensions and infrastructure. Money that would make them less reliant on aid.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
11. Switzerlanders (Switzerlanders)
A cinematic time capsule with over 1,400 hours of submitted material from all regions of Switzerland gives unknown insights about the life of Swiss people in the politically and socially turbulent summer of 2019.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
12. Beyonce & Jay-Z: Power Love
A merger of megastar music. Discover the story of multi-genre performer and fashion promoter, Beyonce Knowles sand the world's first hip hop billionaire, Jay-Z.
13. Alpine Saga (Das Erbe der Bergler)
Award-winning director Langjahr returns to his beloved Alps to document a group of people continuing the legacy of their forefathers. Every year on Swiss National day, August 1, the Wildheuer climb up the steep mountain of the «Hinteren Heubrig», fitted out with scythes and wearing wooden shoes with spikes, just as their ancestors did before them. They are part of a generation who have lived with the challenges of nature and survived it. In his film, Langjahr's poetic realism gives an insight into these people's experience of the simple life, the very foundation of human existence.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
14. Corvin variációk (Corvin variációk)
(Corvin variációk)
15. The Whole Gritty City
Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades, and teach them to succeed and to survive.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. Fritz Hauser: Sound Explorer (Fritz Hauser: Klangwerker)
A documentary about experimental drummer Fritz Hauser.
17. Bounty (Bounty)
(Bounty)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
18. Lapsus (Lapsus)
The relationship between the city and a car, through a dialogue where a common reality and "making a city" are disputed and revealed.
19. Feneen (Feneen)
FENEEN is a journey into Senegal's urban music scene. This project was born from the meeting of Italian producer Frank Sativa with Senegalese pop-star Leuz Diwane G and Italian-Senegalese rapper F.U.L.A. This gave rise to a song, a video clip and a documentary with the same name . Feneen portrays the current urban and music subculture of Dakar suburbs. The documentary highlights the fundamental rule of the urban subculture in debunking the stereotypical image of the African continent.
20. Memory of the Wind (風の記憶)
Naomi Kawase observes people in the city of Shibuya with curiosity and openness, drawing parallels between life and filmmaking and discovering her abilities as a filmmaker.
