Luc Yersin

Home (2008)

Along with her husband and three children, Marthe lives in an eden of her own creation, nearly isolated from the rest of the world. The arrival of a construction vehicle, however, pierces their tranquil, hermetic existence—before long a disused highway ...

Un petit coin de paradis (2008)

Telling Strings (2007)

The film interweaves the stories of two generations of Palestinians. It tells the story of Elias Jubran, a music teacher and oud maker from Al Jaleel (Galilee), and his children, who live in a totally different way in Israel... or who have left the country ...

Que viva Mauricio Demierre (2006)

Slumming (2006)

Two yuppies play mean pranks on those around them until one joke has unexpected consequences. ...

Under a False Name (2004)

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire. ...

Jour de Marché (2002)

Pas les flics, pas les noirs, pas les blancs (2002)

Beresina (1999)

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Hei ...

ID Swiss (1999)

Documentary in 7 segments whose theme is "Multicultural Switzerland". The segments are: "Raclette Curry", "Was Wie Wann Wohin Gehört", "Home Alone?", "Hopp Schwyz", "Mixed Up", "Making of a Jew" and "Train Fantôme". ...

L'homme des casernes (1994)

This film deals with the issue of mandatory military service in Switzerland. For four months, from February to May 1990, filmmaker Jacqueline Veuve and her team filmed a platoon engaged in basic training at Colombier, Switzerland. ...

Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal (1988)

A cyclist decides to go for everything and win the 'Tour of Chile' Race, so he can finance the medical treatment for his ill mother with the prize. However, he must soon recognize that the sporting event is corrupted by commercial and marketing interests, ...

Pierre and Djemila (1987)

Two teenage lovers are caught up in the thrill of forbidden love in this tragic romantic drama. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Andre) is a 16-year-old French lad who loves 14-year-old Djemila (Nadja Reski), the offspring of Algerian immigrants. Pierre's father is an ...

Jenatsch (1987)

A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truth ...

Die Reise (1986)

An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin. ...

After Darkness (1985)

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be ...

Tosca's Kiss (1984)

Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. This documentary, which has achieved cult-like status among opera and ...

Notre Dame de la Croisette (1983)

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room. ...

Imitation of Life (1983)

Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk. ...

Every Man for Himself (1980)

A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker. ...

Polenta (1980)

Two men and a young girl meet at the end of the world ...

Les Petites Fugues (1979)

The old farm worker Pipe is old enough to retire. Even so he cannot imagine a life without work. So he keeps on doing his job and wonders what to do with his additional financial means. ...

La Jacinthe d'eau (1979)

San Gottardo (1977)

In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling conditions, it was widened to accommodate automobiles in 1972. The tunnel links the Rhineland in Germany with Italy ...

Le Gaz des champs (1977)

La Paloma (1974)

Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him beg ...

Charles, Dead or Alive (1970)

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but is e ...

Faire la déménageuse (1972)

In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of shows and the spectator? How does meaning travel in the story? These are the questions posed and proposed by the film. ...