Ikaria

Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the po...

Since the conflict in Darfur spread to the eastern border regions of Chad in 2005, some 13,000 peopl...

In Bern, Madame Mercedes has been working for 35 years in her car as a prostitute. An intimate and s...

Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of M...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting...

A documentary about Ibrahim Gezer, who escaped from war in Kurdistan to Switzerland. All is lost, ex...

The Gangbé Brass Band, a musical group from Benin, sets out to conquer Lagos, capital of Nigeria.

MUHAI TANG – IN THE OCEAN OF MUSIC is a portrait of Chinese conductor Muhai Tang’s extraordinary lif...

In their very own ways, scientists, artists and wandering souls search in the inhospitable and mythi...

In May of 1982 Julio Cortázar, the Argentinean writer and his companion in life, Carol Dunlop set ou...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...

Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the few Swiss artists of world renown, often touches on social wounds with...

Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A yo...

Max Frisch was the last big Swiss intellectual widely respected as a “voice” in its own right – a ch...

Hans Werner hirsch aka Surava was a journalist. He wrote about the deportation of French jews, and t...

Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site a...

A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated...