Artfilm Movies

  • 2015
    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

    62015HD

    Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CDs, iPods, instruments?

    Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared
  • 2014
    Cloudy Times

    Cloudy Times

    Cloudy Times

    5.82014HD

    Arami Ullón must return to Paraguay to make an important decision: what will happen to her sick mother, Mirna? The heartfelt gaze of the...

    Cloudy Times
  • 2013
    The Laundry Room

    The Laundry Room

    The Laundry Room

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    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...

    The Laundry Room
  • 2002
    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    5.92002HD

    Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that...

    Gambling, Gods and LSD
  • 2007
    Echoes of Home

    Echoes of Home

    Echoes of Home

    6.72007HD

    What does a baby's cry have in common with the echo of a mountain yodler, and what connects the head tone of a Tuvin nomad with the stage show of a...

    Echoes of Home
  • 1997
    Balifilm

    Balifilm

    Balifilm

    7.21997HD

    Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the...

    Balifilm
  • 2006
    Hardcore Chambermusic

    Hardcore Chambermusic

    Hardcore Chambermusic

    82006HD

    This documentary follows swiss improvisation musicians and tells there stories.

    Hardcore Chambermusic
  • 2010
    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    5.82010HD

    When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
  • 2012
    Balkan Melody

    Balkan Melody

    Balkan Melody

    82012HD

    What Swiss director Stefan Schweitert did for accordion music and for yodeling (Accordion Tribe, Cinequest, 2005; Echoes of Home, Cinequest 2008) he...

    Balkan Melody
  • 1989
    Kick That Habit

    Kick That Habit

    Kick That Habit

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    Kick That Habit is a 1989 film by PETER LIECHTI, an audio-visual portrait of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples from...

    Kick That Habit
  • 2016
    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

    5.62016HD

    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...

    Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower
  • 2018
    Genesis 2.0

    Genesis 2.0

    Genesis 2.0

    6.3572018HD

    A well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing...

    Genesis 2.0
  • 2018
    Chris the Swiss

    Chris the Swiss

    Chris the Swiss

    6.5362018HD

    Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist's body is discovered dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary...

    Chris the Swiss
  • 2005
    Into Great Silence

    Into Great Silence

    Into Great Silence

    72005HD

    An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps (Chartreuse Mountains). The idea...

    Into Great Silence
  • 2000
    Yugodivas

    Yugodivas

    Yugodivas

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    Five New York divas close up. The thing that in addition to their friendship links these gifted, confident and beautiful women; a painter, an actress...

    Yugodivas
  • 2010
    David Wants to Fly

    David Wants to Fly

    David Wants to Fly

    7.0942010HD

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

    David Wants to Fly
  • 2015
    Above and Below

    Above and Below

    Above and Below

    6.12015HD

    Above and Below is a rough and rhythmic roller coaster ride seating five survivors in their daily hustle through an apocalyptic world. A journey of...

    Above and Below
  • 2009
    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands

    7.32009HD

    The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.

    Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
  • 2016
    Zen for Nothing

    Zen for Nothing

    Zen for Nothing

    6.52016HD

    Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through...

    Zen for Nothing
  • 1995
    Signer's Suitcase

    Signer's Suitcase

    Signer's Suitcase

    6.21995HD

    SIGNERS KOFFER is a kind of road movie across Europa. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland. Always following the...

    Signer's Suitcase