Nicolas Wadimoff

Directing

Nicolas Wadimoff

Known for

Directing

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Radio Silence poster
8.0

Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting against misinformation. The film tells the story of this quest: difficult and dangerous, but essential to the health of democracy. A story in which resistance becomes a form of survival.

Radio Silence

2021

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower poster
5.6

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

2016

Serafina poster
8.0

An orthodox heroine astride a motorbike. Young people breaking the monotony of a country life through stunt riding. A meeting against a Western backdrop between two universes that are at odds with each other except for their very reason for being: passion.

Serafina

2022

Buried Secrets poster
5.7

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

Buried Secrets

2009

Sevda poster
NR

Successful real estate agent Sevda is on the verge of closing a major project in Istanbul. However, just before construction is set to begin, she encounters an unexpected obstacle: an old Ottoman cemetery and its elderly caretaker who refuses to leave.

Sevda

2026

Who Is Still Alive poster
NR

A map of Gaza, its towns, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black ground. Within the crudely drawn outlines, nine refugees who escaped the inferno tell their stories.

Who Is Still Alive

2026

Behind the camera

Radio Silence poster
8.0

Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting against misinformation. The film tells the story of this quest: difficult and dangerous, but essential to the health of democracy. A story in which resistance becomes a form of survival.

Radio Silence

2021

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower poster
5.6

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

2016

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower poster
5.6

In 1964, Che Guevara asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight in the "Monster brain" capitalist. Since then, Jean Ziegler nerve stops fighting against injustices as a public writer, a speaker and as a Kofi Annan collaborator. During a trip to Cuba, his ideas are challenged by what he discover on the island.

Jean Ziegler: The Optimism of Willpower

2016

Serafina poster
8.0

An orthodox heroine astride a motorbike. Young people breaking the monotony of a country life through stunt riding. A meeting against a Western backdrop between two universes that are at odds with each other except for their very reason for being: passion.

Serafina

2022

Buried Secrets poster
5.7

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.

Buried Secrets

2009

Sevda poster
NR

Successful real estate agent Sevda is on the verge of closing a major project in Istanbul. However, just before construction is set to begin, she encounters an unexpected obstacle: an old Ottoman cemetery and its elderly caretaker who refuses to leave.

Sevda

2026

Who Is Still Alive poster
NR

A map of Gaza, its towns, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black ground. Within the crudely drawn outlines, nine refugees who escaped the inferno tell their stories.

Who Is Still Alive

2026

Who Is Still Alive poster
NR

A map of Gaza, its towns, camps and neighbourhoods. White paint on a black ground. Within the crudely drawn outlines, nine refugees who escaped the inferno tell their stories.

Who Is Still Alive

2026

With Calvin poster
NR

Calvin crosses the city with a conquering step. He sells honey from the Middle East, natural Viagra from Malaysia and passes his sales knowledge to younger people. His skin-deep voluntarism is at the service of a future perspective that his family would not have wished for him.

With Calvin

2021

The Parade poster
NR

A group of high school students meet to participate in the national parade with their school. A student, is bullied by the teacher because of her nationality. They react, defend her and the conflict becomes intense. To avoid the consequences, they decide to run away. They settle on the top of a nearby hill and spend the rest of the day there, as an act of escapism. Up there, they seem to have forgotten their anxieties and problems, as if they were in another world.

The Parade

2023

Gavilàn poster
NR

Eighteen-year-old Sophie visits the city of her origins, Valparaiso in Chile. From street to street, she confronts this place and what it means to her. In search of herself, attracted by a strange house, followed by a condor, engulfed in her drawings, Sophie must understand who she is in order to accept where she comes from.

Gavilàn

2023

Maisonneuve - A School of the World poster
5.0

Over a dozen students at this school in Quebec were radicalised. To tackle the issue, a pilot project was launched to heal divides within the student body. It's a hybrid cultural model, made up of the many cultures of its students.

Maisonneuve - A School of the World

2020

Capitaine Thomas Sankara poster
7.8

A portrait composed of archives of Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso between 1983 and his murder in 1987. Ready to liberate his country and transform the mentalities of his fellow citizens, contesting the world’s political order and challenging the powers of his time, Sankara stands out strongly in the history both of Africa and of the world.

Capitaine Thomas Sankara

2012

The Apollo of Gaza poster
6.5

In 2013, a 2,000-year-old statue of Apollo was found near Gaza, only to disappear all of a sudden. Apollo, god of art, beauty and divinations, incites all sorts of rumors, even the craziest ones. The Apollo of Gaza is at once an inquiry and a meditation on history, plunging us into the barely known reality of a territory that is still paying the price of wars and a merciless blockade, but where life also subsists, undefeated. By bringing a little light to the sky of Gaza, the statue and its stupefying story could return some dignity and hope to all people.

The Apollo of Gaza

2020

The Apollo of Gaza poster
6.5

In 2013, a 2,000-year-old statue of Apollo was found near Gaza, only to disappear all of a sudden. Apollo, god of art, beauty and divinations, incites all sorts of rumors, even the craziest ones. The Apollo of Gaza is at once an inquiry and a meditation on history, plunging us into the barely known reality of a territory that is still paying the price of wars and a merciless blockade, but where life also subsists, undefeated. By bringing a little light to the sky of Gaza, the statue and its stupefying story could return some dignity and hope to all people.

The Apollo of Gaza

2020

L'accord poster
8.0

The fascinating story behind the Geneva Initiative, a peace plan for the Middle East. Set up by a group of seven very different individuals – three Israelis, three Palestinians and one Swiss – united by their dedication to achieve peace in the Middle East, the Geneva Initiative was officially launched in December 2003 on the shores of Lake Geneva.

L'accord

2006

L'accord poster
8.0

The fascinating story behind the Geneva Initiative, a peace plan for the Middle East. Set up by a group of seven very different individuals – three Israelis, three Palestinians and one Swiss – united by their dedication to achieve peace in the Middle East, the Geneva Initiative was officially launched in December 2003 on the shores of Lake Geneva.

L'accord

2006

The Truth about Alvert, the Last Dodo poster
NR

On the island of Reunion, Lunet and his grandfather Dadabé set on a quest to turn a hen into a dodo bird, whose magic feathers might save the boy’s seriously ill mother.

The Truth about Alvert, the Last Dodo

2023

Mondialito poster
8.0

Abdou, a young runaway, stops at a service station on the motorway Paris-Marseille where he meets Georges, the attendant. Georges decides to quit his job and take the boy to Marseille to watch the World Cup. Their heads stuffed with dreams, their pockets empty, the two grow closer as they travel along, meeting some amazing people on the way.

Mondialito

2000

Mondialito poster
8.0

Abdou, a young runaway, stops at a service station on the motorway Paris-Marseille where he meets Georges, the attendant. Georges decides to quit his job and take the boy to Marseille to watch the World Cup. Their heads stuffed with dreams, their pockets empty, the two grow closer as they travel along, meeting some amazing people on the way.

Mondialito

2000

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) poster
6.6

Going behind the usual images of war-torn Gaza, Swiss documentarian Nicolas Wadimoff offers this look at how people survive despite constant threat of danger. Children still play, rappers still create music and families still love one another. In addition to visiting the United Nations Food Distribution Center, Wadimoff films at a derelict amusement park and profiles the DARG TeaM rappers, whose politically charged music proclaims their defiance.

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza)

2010

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) poster
6.6

Going behind the usual images of war-torn Gaza, Swiss documentarian Nicolas Wadimoff offers this look at how people survive despite constant threat of danger. Children still play, rappers still create music and families still love one another. In addition to visiting the United Nations Food Distribution Center, Wadimoff films at a derelict amusement park and profiles the DARG TeaM rappers, whose politically charged music proclaims their defiance.

Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza)

2010

Gods of the Supermarket poster
10.0

In times of body positive movements this film pays tribute to the mainstream representation of the male body which the director has a love-hate relationship with. Through a series of gleaned images from the internet and elsewhere (“net found footage”), our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards is put into question.

Gods of the Supermarket

2022

Chasseurs de crimes poster
NR

From their headquarters in Geneva, the lawyers of the Swiss NGO Trial (Track Impunity Always) unremittingly pursue any war criminal careless enough to pass through Swiss territory. These true contemporary crime hunters have in their crosshairs all those with the blood of victims of conflicts on their hands. Theirs is primarily painstaking legal work, but also the emotionally charged fieldwork of collecting shocking testimonies from victims forever haunted by the ghosts of violence past. This film tells the story of their daily struggle against injustice and impunity.

Chasseurs de crimes

2014

Chasseurs de crimes poster
NR

From their headquarters in Geneva, the lawyers of the Swiss NGO Trial (Track Impunity Always) unremittingly pursue any war criminal careless enough to pass through Swiss territory. These true contemporary crime hunters have in their crosshairs all those with the blood of victims of conflicts on their hands. Theirs is primarily painstaking legal work, but also the emotionally charged fieldwork of collecting shocking testimonies from victims forever haunted by the ghosts of violence past. This film tells the story of their daily struggle against injustice and impunity.

Chasseurs de crimes

2014

UNRWA, 75 Years of a Provisory History poster
10.0

Examines the complex role of UNRWA, an "apolitical" agency that has found itself at the heart of the most political debates of the century.

UNRWA, 75 Years of a Provisory History

2025

Becoming A Black Woman poster
8.3

A documentary about black women denouncing racism in Switzerland.

Becoming A Black Woman

2022

Manga d'Terra poster
5.5

Twenty-year-old Rosa leaves her two children in Cape Verde and relocates to Lisbon in the hope of giving them a better life. Caught between the harassment of gangster bosses and daily police violence, Rosa tries to find comfort in the women of the community. But her real escape is music.

Manga d'Terra

2023

Operation Libertad poster
5.9

In April 1978, members of the Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire (GAR) rob a bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin America. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation.

Operation Libertad

2012

Operation Libertad poster
5.9

In April 1978, members of the Groupe Autonome Révolutionnaire (GAR) rob a bank in Zurich with the aim of bringing to light the covert ties between the Swiss financial system and dictatorships in Latin America. Wanting to secure concrete evidence, they film the entire operation.

Operation Libertad

2012

Clandestins poster
6.9

A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada from a port in France. The police are in hot pursuit when the septet of strangers are stowed away in the huge metal box. The refugees -- two men, two women and two children -- are of various backgrounds including Gypsy, Russian and Arab. The first of many problems occurs when a mother and daughter arrive with no food (they lost it during a chase). The one Russian refugee, Roman, declares that they should not be allowed to board the ship, but the other three refugees allow them in. Their ordeal begins when the ship breaks down in Liverpool.

Clandestins

1997

Clandestins poster
6.9

A dark and claustrophobic film, this brutal, tragic, gut-wrenching drama is set almost totally within the confines of a ship's cargo container that is only 25 square meters in size. It is the grim story of six ill-fated refugees trying to get to Canada from a port in France. The police are in hot pursuit when the septet of strangers are stowed away in the huge metal box. The refugees -- two men, two women and two children -- are of various backgrounds including Gypsy, Russian and Arab. The first of many problems occurs when a mother and daughter arrive with no food (they lost it during a chase). The one Russian refugee, Roman, declares that they should not be allowed to board the ship, but the other three refugees allow them in. Their ordeal begins when the ship breaks down in Liverpool.

Clandestins

1997

Spartans poster
NR

Filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff profiles Yvan Sorel, who runs a mixed martial arts club in Marseille's Quartier nord, a district of the city mainly known for its drug trafficking and gang shootings.

Spartans

2014

Spartans poster
NR

Filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff profiles Yvan Sorel, who runs a mixed martial arts club in Marseille's Quartier nord, a district of the city mainly known for its drug trafficking and gang shootings.

Spartans

2014

Alinghi: The Inside Story poster
NR

Look into the heart & soul of the Alinghi campaign during the Americas Cup competition. This film documents slices of everyday life of the team & their families, the tensions & dramas as well as the joys. The team share their emotions & deepest feelings under their grueling physical training program & the constant upkeep & development of the boat.

Alinghi: The Inside Story

2003

Kadogo, l'enfant soldat poster
8.0

Wounded in combat, 10-year-old Atum is sent to Switzerland for treatment. But the young kadogo (child soldier) has only one obsession: to escape as quickly as possible to rejoin his brothers, who have remained in Congo! Together with Flore, a 10-year-old girl suffering from leukemia, he decides to flee the hospital...

Kadogo, l'enfant soldat

2002

Kadogo, l'enfant soldat poster
8.0

Wounded in combat, 10-year-old Atum is sent to Switzerland for treatment. But the young kadogo (child soldier) has only one obsession: to escape as quickly as possible to rejoin his brothers, who have remained in Congo! Together with Flore, a 10-year-old girl suffering from leukemia, he decides to flee the hospital...

Kadogo, l'enfant soldat

2002

No artwork available
NR

An examination of a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem that is slowly being enclosed by the Israeli apartheid wall.

The Last Supper - Abu Dis

2005