Catalogue des films de « Frédéric Gonseth »

En octobre, nous roulons avec nos plaques suisses vers Kobeliaki, une bourgade paysanne à mi-chemin entre Kiev et le Donbass. Nous y avons nos connaissances, nos amitiés, nouées à la veille même de l’indépendance il y a trente ans. Et nos...

Il existe, au cœur du poumon vert de l’Europe, une région où les gens vivent en marge de notre époque et de son système marchand. Dans les Carpates roumaines, un grand nombre de paysans ne travaillent pas pour l’argent, juste pour leurs...

It’s a tough task: the humanization of war. And a big shock: fighter jets against the old weapons of feudal tribes. What can this Swiss man hope for, flying the famous white flag with the Red Cross in the Arab desert? The deployment of several...

Can western doctors impart expert knowledge to their Vietnamese colleagues? The patients of this Mekong hospital don’t need machinery, but rather sensitive treatment as well as methods and knowledge of the latest standard. Gonseth and Azad’s...

This film deals with authority, violence and friendship between man and beast. This exhilarating film portrays a youth detention centre’s young inhabitants thriving on the difficult task of building up a relationship with a horse. For these...

The landscapes around Lake Geneva have not lost all of their charms since Corot, and indeed they provide the daily bread of the man who was the filmmaker's drawing teacher at college, ever since he was old enough to make them his personal...

In Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan in northwestern India, there are two million people and almost as many animals unevenly sharing an ever diminishing living space, both hostile and dangerous. The animals, whether wild or working, are everywhere. It...

A warm bed, the confort of home and telly... Goodbye to all that ! A group of teenagers sets off on a two-week excursion through the Alps, to follow in the footsteps of Rodolphe Töpffer. This is the chronicle of the long trek, filmed with zest...

The secret was well-kept ! Some of the biggest Swiss companies exploited labour from hard-labour camps put at their disposition by the Nazis. These acts, revealed in the beginning of 1997 by this film's author, overturn what we thought about...

Just two months after lotteries were liberalized by the government of Chavarnadze, Georgia already had 130 of them. But over the same period of time a hierarchy had established itself. Lotteries for charity, like the ones set up to help the...