Documentary movies

To escape oppression and a haunted past, Shewit flees Eritrea, risking her life, setting out alone on the road towards Europe. At fifteen, after a three-year journey, she arrives in Switzerland, the country in which she places her hopes and dreams. Seven years later, without a residence permit and under constant threat of deportation, Shewit persists and fights to become a free woman.

The reputation of Zurich's Schauspielhaus theater is based on figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Therese Giese, who turned it into a bastion of cultural resistance during the Nazi era. After the war, the global successes of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt consolidated this reputation. But the architect of this glory has been forgotten: Kurt Hirschfeld.

Origins draw circles, language shapes memory – and sometimes the feeling of being different remains. Some lose their origins, others carry a heavy family legacy, still others feel foreign in their own land. Director Hao Hohl guides us through a mosaic of moments about belonging and what connects us.

The award-winning Swiss architect Barbara Buser saves buildings from demolition and rebuilds them with reused materials. She transforms former industrial sites into urban living spaces that symbolize a careful approach to our environment and to each other. As a woman who is successfully forging her own path in a male-dominated field, Barbara Buser is a role model for the younger generation, who are fighting for a more sustainable, fairer world.

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As the frontman of the hip-hop group The Latin Kings, Dogge became a powerful symbol of Sweden’s multicultural suburbs. After losing his wife Leonida to cancer, he left the band and was forced to face a new reality. Today, he fights to find work and takes on less-than-glamorous gigs just to make ends meet, while also resorting to controversial tactics to remain visible in the media spotlight.

On the shifting edge of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, the spirit of a fading outsider community endures through its two oldest residents.

At a flour-dusted kitchen table in Norrtälje, a couple of women fold dough parcels for the Ukrainian national dish Varenyky and share memories of the war that brought them there. In the kitchen’s familiar rituals, grief and longing sit side by side with pride and a sense of community.

When young musicians come together to play classical music, they send out a strong signal to our today’s world. The film follows talented young Swiss musicians as they work, search for inspiration, but also expose their thought how to play nowadays the “old” Classical music.

Salman Luban, a young Belarusian, was sent to the Calanca Valley by the Red Cross in 1917. In this remote area of Italian-speaking Graubünden, he found his calling – and never saw his homeland again until his death in 1954. Salman Luban's grandson sets out in search of his grandfather and a nearly lost form of medicine that, according to his genealogy, viewed the human being as a whole.