SWI swissinfo.ch offers a selection of Swiss films chosen from the Swiss streaming platform Play Suisse to our international audience. These films are subtitled in English and are productions or co-productions of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), to which SWI swissinfo.ch also belongs.
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Swiss emigrants – tearful farewells
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Swiss Abroad in Rwanda.
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A documentary by Swiss public television RSI retells the story of Günther Tschanun, an architect who brutally killed four colleagues in Zurich.
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The story of a Geneva family with four kids who gave up everything to open a patisserie in Tokyo without knowing the industry or the language.
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How will three Swiss families who are leaving Switzerland for Canada, Uruguay and northern Germany cope in their new lives?
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In the last of an eight-part series on Swiss identity, we take a light-hearted look at attitudes in Switzerland towards money.
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A documentary film crew goes on a breath-taking journey deep inside the Plaine-Morte glacier to better understand the meltwater flows.
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Heard of Cenovis or Malakoffs? A surplus of milk and a penchant for experimentation have given birth to unique delicacies.
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How did the small mountainous country become one of the wealthiest in the world? This SRF documentary examines some of the possible factors.
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A documentary by Swiss public television, SRF, on a fatal runaway train accident in 2006 in the central Bernese Oberland.
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On September 27, 2001, a gunman carried out a deadly attack on the Zug regional parliament, shooting dead 14 politicians before killing himself.
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In 1997, a gang of amateur crooks made off with CHF53 million ($54.8 million) after holding up Zurich’s Fraumünster post office.
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The bad news: global warming means the glaciers in canton Ticino will have pretty much vanished in about ten years. Is there any good news?
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The dizzying south face of Poncione d’Alnasca, a mountain in southern Switzerland, attracts the best climbers in the world.
How I survived the Bol d’Or boat race on Lake Geneva
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The 2019 edition of the Bol d’Or Mirabaud race will go down as one of the most dramatic, after a ferocious storm wreaked havoc on Lake Geneva.
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A documentary by Swiss public television, RTS, looks at how China has been infiltrating Switzerland and exerting its power on Swiss territory.
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After the war Switzerland was desperate to improve its image. Taking in children who had survived Nazi concentration camps seemed a good idea.
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The annual amateur ski race on the mountain above the village of Evionnaz in southwest Switzerland is a moment of local pride and joy.
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Former Olympic ski champion Bernhard Russi seems to have had a dream life, but he has experienced many personal tragedies.
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Swiss biathlete Selina Gasparin recounts her long, difficult route to Olympic glory and the challenges of staying at the top as an elite athlete.
What do you think Switzerland’s Alain Berset can bring to the Council of Europe?
The former interior minister is to become the first Swiss Secretary General of the Council of Europe – which issues should his five-year term focus on?
