Catalogue des films de « Janine Waeber »

D’abord en Italie, puis en Suisse, après plus de deux ans à dormir dehors et par tous les temps, pour ne plus être prisonniers de la rue et de ses dangers, un petit groupe de SDF du sud-est du Nigeria se constitue. Ils rencontrent trois...

Décédé en 2008, le peintre François Aubrun n’a cessé, durant quarante ans, de contempler et de peindre le basculement du ciel dans la brume, depuis son atelier, fenêtres ouvertes sur Sainte-Victoire. Une exploration approfondie de la vie...

The filmmaker makes frequent visits to her old mother who lives far away. The visits are trying. Invaded by the past she loses her creativity and sinks into lethargy. Why mother and daughter couldn’t they build a bond of trust. How was the life...

How do we perceive the arrival and installation of Roma populations in the heart of Western European cities? Between fantasy and reality what are the feelings and reactions of the population? Recorded over a period of two and a half years in...

"Tant qu'il pleut en Amérique" pose un regard nouveau sur l'Ethiopie d'aujourd'hui. Au cours de son périple, le cinéaste suisse Frédéric Baillif rencontre Bruckty, qui anime ses marionnettes, Mimi venue de Cuba, son pays d'adoption, pour...

"Le monde est comme ça" raconte la destinée de cinq des protagonistes du film "Vol spécia" après leur expulsion de Suisse. Arrachés à leur pays d’accueil et à leurs enfants parce qu’ils étaient sans-papier, ils se sont retrouvés au...

Why does anyone choose to live and work in a circus at a time when comfort, job stability, status and security in all its forms have become so generally desired? What might inspire anyone to give himself body and soul to life as an acrobat, a...

Lucens, in French-speaking Switzerland; summer of 1937. Spectators are lined up along the village streets waiting for the cyclists to pass through: the Tour de Suisse bicycle race. Those who were children at the time recall the days, and as they...

Muriel, Camille and Bénédicte leave their village in the canton of Fribourg and move to China, where their father is setting up a factory. The family makes their home in the Suzhou Industrial Park, an ultramodern district in a city not far from...

François Junod, a maker of automatons, has achieved his childhood dream. Over the years, he has gained a world-wide reputation, and orders for his works or invitations to exhibit them pour in from many countries: Japan, Saudi Arabia and the...