Catalogue des films de « Blaise Gabioud »

For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as deathbed vigils, as morticians, as guardians of funeral rituals. They were present at birth; they were logically present upon death. And then everything changed since we no longer die at home:...

A century ago, the grandparents of filmmaker Peter Entell had to flee Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres. One hundred years later, Entell faces the same destructive nationalism. People continue to kill in the name of the mother...

Lois, an American actress, and her husband, Edgar Snow, the first journalist to have reported and filmed the Chinese revolution, are suspected of Communist sympathies and forced into exile. They end up in Switzerland, near Nyon, half way between...

No one knows the day or the hour. When illness strikes, accompanied by pain and physical decline, there we are, faced with death. The outlook on what remains of life appears dismal and full of anguish. How to spare oneself, and one’s closest...

Denise suffered the tragic loss of her husband 10 years ago. Today she must face a new trial.

"Premier jour" est une collection de dix courts-métrages documentaires initiée et réalisée par Fernand Melgar et soutenue par Jean-Marc Henchoz. L'idée est simple : nous avons tous, au cours de notre vie, des moments qui comptent et dont nous...

15-year-old Fabrice helps bring the cows up to the mountain pastures for the first time, in keeping with Swiss tradition.

After having adopted Bruno in Brazil two years earlier, the Aymon family is waiting, frantically, at the Geneva airport for his younger sister, arriving from Haïti.