Alain Tanner Movies

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds

After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own...

It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime...

In Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories.

A group of 17 theater actors wonder about what happened to their teacher when he doesn't show up for a class.

Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of...

Several teenagers following a professional apprenticeship. Eleven young girls and boys from different parts of French-speaking Switzerland.

In the Shadow of Hollywood examines this assault on our senses through interviews with directors, producers, writers and other experts in the film...

Reel 40 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

May 68 in Paris filmed by Alain Tanner, then director for Swiss Television. Images of Nanterre (92), the Sorbonne (Paris 5e), and the theater of the...