Filming the right-wing with ‘an open heart’
HOMOPHOBIA: Polish Prayers unravels the trajectory of a young Pole as he journeys away from the homophonic, ultra-conservative Brotherhood
Swiss Films
A lifetime prison hidden in the center of the free world
HUMAN RIGHTS: The struggles of 2.5 million people growing up in a country that does not recognize them as its own.
Who still remembers Zimmerwald?
HISTORY: The sleepy village that didn’t want to be a part of world history.
The limits of documentation
ENVIRONMENT: In a small village in southern Spain, where modernity and tradition coexist, a study investigates the interconnection between humans and animals.
Freedom, limited
RUSSIA: The authoritarian stranglehold of the Kremlin closes in across national holidays in contemporary Russia.
Inside Switzerland’s compulsory military service
MILITARY: Neutral for more than 500 years, Switzerland maintains a citizen army that can be mobilised in minutes.
When the silent war continues
WAR: We do not only find bones. We find stories. Lives once lived. Keeping an emotional distance is not always easy.
She wrote what she could not live
BIOGRAPHY: Based on the unpublished diaries of Patricia Highsmith, Loving Highsmith draws a vivid portrait of one of the most prolific female authors.