Swiss director Fernand Melgar has made the plight of immigrants being pushed out of his wealthy country the central theme of his oeuvre in pluriprized docus “The Fortress,” about a Swiss detention ...

More than 20 years ago, Switzerland became the only nation to legalize assisted suicide. Fernand Melgar's docu "Exit: The Right to Die" thus examines an accepted practice with clear parameters. Timely ...

"Special Flight," a film about detained immigrants in Switzerland directed by Fernand Melgar, took two top prizes at the 2012 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham this weekend. "Special ...

15/08/2014 - Cineuropa met up with Swiss filmmaker Fernand Melgar, who returns to Locarno to enlighten again, through his camera, the people in the shadow film profile]) immigrants, outcasts, those ...

At the Registration Centre in Vallorbe, in the Swiss canton of Vaud, documentarist Fernand Melgar follows asylum-seekers throughout the process, limited to sixty days, that will result in their being ...

No one here gets out alive, as Jim Morrison put it before the End, though in Switzerland one at least has the chance of booking a smoother passage from insufferable pain to whatever comes next. Filmed ...