Peter Bräker Movies

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...

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

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

The life and death of the Scottish monarch.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

The first film about second-generation Swiss immigrants: A Turkish ice hockey player explains why, in Switzerland, he could only fall in love with an...

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

Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand their right to existence by making a...

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

An old man boards a cable car and heads up the mountain. Along the way he takes some snuff, sneezes, and things start to fall apart... literally....

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...