Schweizer Geist

Documentary about what makes a house a home.

10 May 2007 - China's staggering economic growth has overshadowed a more subtle shift in Chinese society. In domestic life, many women are now ignore...

Filmmaker and her mother, a village housewife: their experiences of life, abusive marriages, violence, and home. Although it’s a personal...

In a nursing home, a young man visits his grandmother. As she constantly repeats that she wants to go home, his grandson visits her now empty...

'From One Day To The Next' follows four elderly people through their everyday lives, observing how they cope with a gradual loss of autonomy.

After constantly moving, two students finally find the opportunity to start a family by adopting a stray dog.

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses.

A homeless couple looks for a way to get ahead, working and making an effort, while trying to overcome their past.

The film follows an architecture graduate as she reflects on the meaning of home and the labor of making home. Architecture is framed beyond the...

A short documentary on a grandson returning home to visit his aging grandmother who was crying to see him on the phone.

My parents were real estate developers and dealers in the 1980s. They achieved the ‘middle class dream’ thanks to the development boom....

A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive...