In 2014, ISIS took control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq. Filmmakers embedded with The Golden Division, an elite Iraqi forces unit, document The Battle Of Mosul, the deadliest close-quarters battle since WWII.
Twenty years after peace has been declared in Northern Ireland, violence and unrest hold strong in underground paramilitary groups who hold power in some communities. When the community accuses a young man of dealing drugs, his mother must handle the community's call for violent extrajudicial justice.…
The last male northern white rhinoceros, named Sudan, died a year ago in Kenya. In the years before his death he was anything but alone. Day and night he was attended by armed rangers and lovingly fed and stroked by his permanent caretakers. From all around the world journalists and tourists came to…
Kathia, Phillippe, Marcello et Christian: des personnes ayant des difficultés psychiques, qui, malgré l’exclusion et les longs séjours en clinique, sont en voie de reprendre leur vie en main: en fondant leur entreprise, trouvant un nouvel emploi ou démarrant une formation,…
“Every day, I think about my family, my children, and the future.” Two years ago, Magheswaran Naganathy fled Sri Lanka. Along with Ratha Sivaramalingam, Puniya Sundarampillai, and about 50 other Tamils, he now lives in a refugee camp run by the Salvation Army in Zollikofen, close to Bern…
Jeu, Action, Pensée 2. En continuité avec leur premier film sur le lien chez les nourrissons entre activité libre et pensée, Éva Kálló (psychopédagogue) et Eszter Mózes (psychothérapeute) poursuivent leur réflexion sur ce…
Que ce soit par la danse, le théâtre ou le slam, le jeune artiste néocalédonien Siman Wenethem cherche à transmettre les valeurs de la coutume pour montrer aux jeunes de son pays qu’une réappropriation de leur culture est possible. Mais, depuis que le cancer…
Just as in rural areas all over the world, popular medicine played an important role in the Emmental of Switzerland until about a hundred years ago. Herbs and roots, the laying-on of hands, the pendulum and charms were used to care for the sick and injured. Alternative medical skills and practices were…
Ami d’Andy Warhol, de Grace Jones et de Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring est l’enfant prodige du pop art. Son style épuré et son tracé inimitable lui ont valu un succès instantané et planétaire. Le jeune Keith Haring, pilier gay de la scène…
Même s’ils ont suivi leur scolarité obligatoire, environ 800’000 Suissesses et Suisses ne savent ni lire ni écrire sans fautes. Un chiffre inquiétant et incroyable. Ces personnes souffrent pour la plupart de leur faiblesse en lecture et en écriture et ont…
A contemporary and lively documentary, The House of Tomorrow chooses to focus on the future and to encourage the idea that people can have a hand in their own destinies, whatever the odds. Many movies about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict are understandably focused on the wrongdoing. The House of Tomorrow…
A documentary that challenges the way we think about ageing by exploring ten remarkable women whose resilience, defiance and achievements prove there is life beyond sixty.
