Peter Bräker Filmes

Few places symbolise the dawn of modernity with its expectations and upheavals better than the Jelmoli department store. The director documents the...

Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is...

The life and death of the Scottish monarch.

Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of...

Outlines the history of 40 years of the skinhead subculture, beginning with the most recent versions of the culture.

Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera...

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the...

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

Schaub and Schindelm’s documentary follows two Swiss star architects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, on two very different projects: the...

First, there is the Appenzell countryside, and the melting snow that makes the streams overflow. Then the death of his mother, and the need to spend...

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

An epic family saga told by the women around the famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Franz Engi returns to his hometown after being away for 30 years. A lot of things have changed in that time. There are only few families with...

Conflict-avoidant Thomas just wants a relaxing holiday in the Swiss Alps. But, it's a slippery slope from the beginning. In an effort to repair his...

In 1976, a nuclear reactor near the Italian town of Seveso explodes, leaking highly poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere.

In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the heart of Jerusalem, six different Christian denominations, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syrian, Roman...

The filmmaker Lenz has left his native Berlin for the Vosges to research the story behind Georg Büchner's novel fragment Lenz. But he soon...

Odyssey of the fortune-teller Daniele von Arb who, aged sixteen, joined the revolutionary underground and made the headlines as a top Swiss terrorist.

The small swiss village of Mitholz got destroyed in 1947 after an Ammunition depots of the Swiss Army exploded. After decades of secrecy, the...