Samir Jamal Al Din

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class Into Foreigners (2024)

For more than one hundred years, the Swiss Social Democratic Party and the trade unions shaped Swiss working-class culture. In the seventies, this culture completely collapsed. The working class of yesteryear are called foreigners. An essay by an immigrant ...

The Giacomettis (2023)

The rugged Swiss mountain valley of Bregaglia has produced an entire dynasty of artists: the Giacomettis. Alberto revolutionised the art world with his slender sculptures. Before him, his father was an Impressionist of the first hour. What makes this valle ...

Baghdad in My Shadow (2019)

A wide variety of Iraqis in exile meet at Café Abu Nawas in London, including the architect Amal, the poet Taufiq and the gay IT specialist Muhannad. They all want to finally feel free in London - something that was denied them in their homeland. But adve ...

Chris the Swiss (2018)

Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war, a young journalist's body is discovered dressed in the uniform of an international mercenary group. Twenty years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel investigates his story. ...

Offshore: Elmer and the Swiss Bank Secrecy (2016)

While managers of Swiss banks in the USA ruefully apologize for their tax evasions practices and customer data is disclosed to the American authorities, Rudolf Elmer, former auditor at bank Julius Bär, is indicted for violating the Swiss banking secrecy l ...

Iraqi Odyssey (2014)

Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of di ...

Once I Entered in a Garden (2013)

Fantasizes an 'Old' Middle East, wherein communities were not divided along ethnic and religious lines; a Middle East in which even metaphorical borders had no place ...

Fraulein (2006)

Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops between the two ...

Snow White (2005)

The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté and i ...

White Terror (2005)

A video about Neo-Nazis originating in Sweden provides the starting point of an investigation of extremists' networks in Europe, Russia, and North America. Their propaganda is a message of hatred, war, and segregation. ...

Tarifa Traffic: Death in the Straits of Gibraltar (2003)

Thousands of migrants who, by dint of rubber boats, illegally cross the straits between Morocco and Spain, change a landscape and its inhabitants. ...

Skinhead Attitude (2003)

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

Birdseye (2002)

A Colorado sheriff and his teenage son investigate a bizarre kidnapping, ultimately leading them on the hunt for a legendary Swiss criminal. ...

Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection (2002)

A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq. ...

Do It (2000)

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

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". ...

Die Metzger (1998)

The Little Girl (1997)

A little girl looking for directions meets the wolf, the bull and the great woman on the mountain. A short film specially commissioned to celebrate the centenary of cinema. ...

Tödliche Schwesterliebe (1996)

Babylon 2 (1993)

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 Italian. A young Italian woman explains why she prefers to rap in English. A hip-hop artist with Hispanic ...

(It Was) Just a Job (1992)

Right after the first Iraq war, the filmmaker visits his family in Iraq. He tries to reconstruct the war from different points of view, all depicted on the same screen at the same time: U.S. airplanes dropping bombs, his parents fixated on the television, ...

Always & Forever (1991)

Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets. They meet in the realm of the dead and together they visit familiar places and their loved ones. B ...

Filou (1988)

Max is unemployed. He shares an apartment with a prostitute, who dreams of another life, and Jiri, a refugee who believes the world is doomed. Max is certain that one day he will find the deal that will make him rich. ...

Iraqi Odyssey (2014)

Tracing the emigrations of his family over more than half a century, this riveting documentary epic from acclaimed expatriate Iraqi filmmaker Samir pays moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by the horrors of di ...