
2011
Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst. They are accompanied by police officers and immigration officials. The passengers are flown to their native countries, where they haven't set foot in in up to twenty years, and where their lives might be in danger. Children, wives and work are left behind in Switzerland. Near Geneva, in Frambois prison, live 25 illegal immigrants waiting for deportation. They are offered an opportunity to say goodbye to their families and return to their native countries on a regular flight, escorted by plain-clothes police officers. If they refuse this offer, the special flight is arranged fast and unexpectedly. The stories behind the locked cells are truly heartbreaking.

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

Viramundo

Max Frisch, Citoyen

The Laundry Room

Into Great Silence

Half the Town

Winged Migration

Journey to the Safest Place on Earth

Exit: The Right to Die

Remue-ménage

Parrot at the Milk Bar

Cycle of the Seasons

Rue de Blamage

A Home Far Away

Viacrucis Migrante

The Secret of the Secret

TINA

Island Memories

Little Birds

Russland und die Schweiz – Eine Beziehung in Zeiten des Krieges