Our Top 250 Films
Since 1988 trigon-film has been releasing outstanding films from South and East to the cinemas. Over four million viewers have had encounters with other cultures and enriching viewing experiences. The list of the 250 most successful films shows the rich cultural experiences that trigon-film has made possible and continues making. Most of the films have also been released on DVD, can be ordered online via the film shop or can be viewed on the art house platform filmingo.ch.
| Film | Directed by | Country | Admissions | |
| 1 | La vida es silbar | Fernando Pérez | Cuba | 122'685 |
| 2 | Bodhi Dharma | Yong-kyun Bae | South Korea | 106'071 |
| 3 | El viaje | Fernando Solanas | Argentina | 105'176 |
| 4 | Lagaan | Ashutosh Gowariker | India | 77'426 |
| 5 | Sur | Fernando Solanas | Argentina | 71'641 |
| 6 | Le collier perdu | Nacer Khemir | Tunisia | 64'665 |
| 7 | Bab'Aziz | Nacer Khemir | Tunisia | 63'195 |
| 8 | Yi Yi - A One and a Two | Edward Yang | Taiwan | 53'901 |
| 9 | No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | 52'741 |
| 10 | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | Iran | 48'423 |
| 11 | Shamt al kushur - Les silences du palais | Moufida Tlatli | Tunisia | 45'623 |
| 12 | Bombón - el perro | Carlos Sorin | Argentina | 44'420 |
| 13 | The Goddess of 1967 | Clara Law | Australia | 41'075 |
| 14 | Eu, tu, eles | Andrucha Waddington | Brazil | 40'498 |
| 15 | Suite Habana | Fernando Pérez | Cuba | 40'449 |
| 16 | TGV | Moussa Touré | Senegal | 39'532 |
| 17 | Un lugar en el mundo | Adolfo Aristarain | Argentina | 39'247 |
| 18 | Despabílate amor | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | 38'974 |
| 19 | Like Father, Like Son | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 35'767 |
| 20 | Pequeños milagros | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | 34'759 |
| 21 | L'éternité et un jour | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 33'874 |
| 22 | Nobody Knows - Dare mo shiranai | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 33'410 |
| 23 | Historias minimas | Carlos Sorin | Argentina | 31'128 |
| 24 | Life on a String - Bian zou bian chang | Kaige Chen | China | 30'732 |
| 25 | Que tan lejos | Tania Hermida | Ecuador | 30'337 |
| 26 | Dunia - Kiss Me Not on the Eyes | Jocelyne Saab | Egypt | 29'919 |
| 27 | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mali | 29'829 |
| 28 | To vlemma tou Odyssea | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 29'488 |
| 29 | Conducta | Ernesto Daranas | Cuba | 28'164 |
| 30 | El lado oscuro del corazón | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | 26'740 |
| 31 | Cinco dias sin Nora | Mariana Chenillo | Mexico | 25'861 |
| 32 | Russkij kovcheg - Russian Ark | Alexander Sokurow | Russia | 23'992 |
| 33 | Les gens de la rizière - Neak srê | Rithy Panh | Cambodia | 23'850 |
| 34 | Bal - Honey | Semih Kaplanoglu | Turkey | 23'816 |
| 35 | Topio stin omichli | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 23'603 |
| 36 | Satin Rouge | Raja Amari | Tunisia | 23'241 |
| 37 | Wara mendel - Dance of the Wind | Rajan Khosa | India | 23'107 |
| 38 | Grbavica | Jasmila Zbanic | Bosnia and Herz... | 23'013 |
| 39 | Gori Vatra - Fuse! | Pjer Zalica | Bosnia and Herz... | 22'633 |
| 40 | Domésticas, o filme | Fernando Meirelles | Brazil | 22'213 |
| 41 | Maboroshi no hikari | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 21'991 |
| 42 | El abrazo partido | Daniel Burman | Argentina | 21'414 |
| 43 | Les baliseurs du désert - El Haimoune | Nacer Khemir | Tunisia | 20'216 |
| 44 | Pequeno dicionário amoroso | Sandra Werneck | Brazil | 20'014 |
| 45 | Le grand voyage | Ismaël Ferroukhi | Morocco | 20'006 |
| 46 | Le pas suspendu de la cigogne | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 19'323 |
| 47 | Our Little Sister - Umimachi Diary | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 18'920 |
| 48 | El baño del Papa | Enrique Fernández & César Charlone | Uruguay | 18'830 |
| 49 | Journey to the Sun - Günese Yolculuk | Yesim Ustaoglu | Turkey | 18'641 |
| 50 | El entusiasmo | Ricardo Larraín | Chile | 18'554 |
| 51 | Dao ma tse - Dao ma zei | Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan | China | 18'526 |
| 52 | Bamako | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mali | 18'042 |
| 53 | Beijing Bicycle - Shiqi Sui De Danche | Xiaoshuai Wang | China | 17'563 |
| 54 | La Estrategia del caracol | Sergio Cabrera | Colombia | 17'492 |
| 55 | Bab el-Oued City | Merzak Allouache | Algeria | 17'226 |
| 56 | Intervention divine - Yadon ilaheyya | Elia Suleiman | Palestine | 17'178 |
| 57 | Wajib | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine | 17'156 |
| 58 | Tel Aviv On Fire | Sameh Zoabi | Palestine | 17'072 |
| 59 | Whisky | Pablo Stoll & Juan Pablo Rebella | Uruguay | 17'010 |
| 60 | Memoria del saqueo | Fernando Solanas | Argentina | 16'876 |
| 61 | Worlds Apart | Christopher Papakaliatis | Greece | 16'521 |
| 62 | Congo River - Beyond Darkness | Thierry Michel | Democratic Repu... | 16'356 |
| 63 | El abrazo de la Serpiente | Ciro Guerra | Colombia | 16'352 |
| 64 | Nemuru otoko - Sleeping Man | Kohei OGURI | Japan | 16'205 |
| 65 | Winter Sleep | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey | 15'892 |
| 66 | Madagascar | Fernando Pérez | Cuba | 15'753 |
| 67 | Una noche | Lucy Mulloy | Cuba | 15'578 |
| 68 | Quiéreme y verás | Daniel Díaz Torres | Cuba | 15'473 |
| 69 | Barakah Meets Barakah | Mahmoud Sabbagh | Saudi Arabia | 15'443 |
| 70 | Mossane | Faye Safi | Senegal | 15'407 |
| 71 | Ouaga Saga | Dani Kouyaté | Burkina Faso | 15'297 |
| 72 | Die Tunisreise - Le voyage à Tunis | Bruno Moll | Tunisia | 15'041 |
| 73 | L'enfant endormi | Yasmine Kassari | Morocco | 14'761 |
| 74 | Je chanterai pour toi | Jacques Sarasin | Mali | 14'210 |
| 75 | Un Barrage contre le Pacifique | Rithy Panh | Cambodia | 14'210 |
| 76 | Birds of Passage | Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego | Colombia | 14'171 |
| 77 | La teta asustada | Claudia Llosa | Peru | 14'136 |
| 78 | Todas las azafatas van al cielo | Daniel Burman | Argentina | 14'004 |
| 79 | Pandora's Box - Pandoranin kutusu | Yesim Ustaoglu | Turkey | 13'909 |
| 80 | Be With Me | Eric Khoo | Singapore | 13'851 |
| 81 | Birdwatchers | Marco Bechis | Brazil | 13'778 |
| 82 | La saison des hommes - Maussim al-riyal | Moufida Tlatli | Tunisia | 13'750 |
| 83 | Rusalka - Mermaid | Anna Melikian | Russia | 13'671 |
| 84 | Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei | Yoji Yamada | Japan | 13'667 |
| 85 | Rashomon | Akira KUROSAWA | Japan | 13'661 |
| 86 | La nube | Fernando Solanas | Argentina | 13'628 |
| 87 | Nostalgie de la campagne | Dang Nhat Minh | Vietnam | 13'423 |
| 88 | Dôlè | Imunga Ivanga | Gabon | 13'320 |
| 89 | Eleni | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 13'319 |
| 90 | O Thiasos - O Thiassos | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece | 13'154 |
| 91 | Madeinusa | Claudia Llosa | Peru | 12'939 |
| 92 | Na putu - On the Path | Jasmila Zbanic | Bosnia and Herz... | 12'899 |
| 93 | West Beyrouth | Ziad Doueiri | Lebanon | 12'832 |
| 94 | Casa de areia - The House of Sand | Andrucha Waddington | Brazil | 12'761 |
| 95 | Un amor | Paula Hernández | Argentina | 12'647 |
| 96 | Beshkempir | Aktan Abdykalykow - Arym Kubat | Kyrgyzstan | 12'548 |
| 97 | El botón de nácar | Patricio Guzmán | Chile | 12'495 |
| 98 | Salvador Allende | Patricio Guzmán | Chile | 12'387 |
| 99 | Medianeras | Gustavo Taretto | Argentina | 12'307 |
| 100 | Nicotina | Hugo Rodríguez | Mexico | 12'271 |
| 101 | Gizli yüz | Ömer Kavur | Turkey | 12'217 |
| 102 | After Life - Wandafuru Raifu | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 12'182 |
| 103 | Las aventuras de Dios | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | 11'491 |
| 104 | Nostalgia de la luz | Patricio Guzmán | Chile | 11'472 |
| 105 | Uttara | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | India | 11'396 |
| 106 | Lumumba | Raoul Peck | Democratic Repu... | 11'324 |
| 107 | Tokyo Godfathers | Satoshi Kon | Japan | 11'239 |
| 108 | En attendant le bonheur - Heremakono | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mauritania | 11'007 |
| 109 | Once Upon A Time in Anatolia | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey | 10'999 |
| 110 | Pizza Bethlehem | Bruno Moll | Switzerland | 10'874 |
| 111 | Durak | Juri Bykow | Russia | 10'837 |
| 112 | Mendiants et orgueilleux | Asma El Bakri | Egypt | 10'800 |
| 113 | White Sun | Deepak Rauniyar | Nepal | 10'767 |
| 114 | Martín (Hache) | Adolfo Aristarain | Argentina | 10'477 |
| 115 | Soy Cuba | Michail Kalatosow | Cuba | 10'423 |
| 116 | Charachar | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | India | 10'386 |
| 117 | El nido vacío | Daniel Burman | Argentina | 10'384 |
| 118 | The Light Thief - Svet-Ake | Aktan Abdykalykow - Arym Kubat | Kyrgyzstan | 10'323 |
| 119 | Still Walking - Aruitemo, aruitemo | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 10'275 |
| 120 | Mama Africa - Miriam Makeba | Mika Kaurismäki | South Africa | 10'136 |
| 121 | Kosh ba kosh | Bachtiar Chudonasarow | Tajikistan | 10'107 |
| 122 | Ultimos dias en La Habana | Fernando Pérez | Cuba | 10'101 |
| 123 | Amandla! | Lee Hirsch | South Africa | 10'005 |
| 124 | Camille | Boris Lojkine | Central African... | 9'892 |
| 125 | Sibel | Guillaume Giovanetti, Çagla Zencirci | Turkey | 9'874 |
| 126 | Kekexili - Mountain Patrol | Chuan LU | China | 9'829 |
| 127 | Ndeysaan - Le prix du pardon | Mansour Sora Wade | Senegal | 9'749 |
| 128 | Madrigal | Fernando Pérez | Cuba | 9'689 |
| 129 | Ixcanul | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala | 9'480 |
| 130 | Nha Fala | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | 9'345 |
| 131 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 9'284 |
| 132 | Sanjuro - Tsubaki Sanjûrô | Akira KUROSAWA | Japan | 9'270 |
| 133 | Anna Karenina (Vronsky's Story) | Karen Schachnasarow - Shakhnazarov | Russia | 9'250 |
| 134 | A Peck on the Cheek | Mani Ratnam | India | 9'201 |
| 135 | Love Island | Jasmila Zbanic | Croatia | 9'076 |
| 136 | Una casa con vista al mar | Alberto Arvelo | Venezuela | 9'051 |
| 137 | The Man Who Copied - O homem que copiava | Jorge Furtado | Brazil | 9'002 |
| 138 | Lamb | Yared Zeleke | Ethiopia | 8'962 |
| 139 | The Puppetmaster - Hsimeng rensheng | Hsiao-hsien Hou | Taiwan | 8'938 |
| 140 | Salt Of This Sea - Milh hadha al-bahr | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine | 8'813 |
| 141 | Daratt - Dry Season | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad | 8'788 |
| 142 | Heavenly Nomadic | Mirlan Abdykalykow | Kyrgyzstan | 8'558 |
| 143 | Les méduses - Meduzot | Etgar Keret | Israel | 8'531 |
| 144 | Djomeh | Hassan Yektapanah | Iran | 8'218 |
| 145 | Turistas | Alicia Scherson | Chile | 8'166 |
| 146 | Cheval de vent - Aoud rih | Daoud Aoulad Syad | Morocco | 8'105 |
| 147 | Theeb - Wolf | Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan | 8'060 |
| 148 | The Train of Salt and Sugar | Licínio Azevedo | Mozambique | 8'038 |
| 149 | Western | Valeska Grisebach | Bulgaria | 7'982 |
| 150 | Rafiki | Wanuri Kahiu | Kenya | 7'956 |
| 151 | Tokyo Sonata | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | 7'910 |
| 152 | Elsewhere | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Namibia | 7'904 |
| 153 | La cordillera de los sueños | Patricio Guzmán | Chile | 7'900 |
| 154 | What Time is it There? - Ni na bian ji dian | Ming-liang Tsai | Taiwan | 7'840 |
| 155 | Les yeux bleus de Yonta | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | 7'786 |
| 156 | Días de Santiago | Josué Méndez | Peru | 7'752 |
| 157 | I Love Beijing - Xiari Nuanyangyang | Ying Ning | China | 7'613 |
| 158 | For Sama | Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Syria | 7'577 |
| 159 | Piravi | Shaji N. Karun | India | 7'535 |
| 160 | Ein blutroter Morgen - Xuese qing chen | Shaohong Li | China | 7'514 |
| 161 | Gatos Viejos | Sebastian Silva Pedro Peirano | Chile | 7'448 |
| 162 | Moi et mon blanc | S. Pierre Yameogo | Burkina Faso | 7'448 |
| 163 | Ilo ilo | Anthony Chen | Singapore | 7'129 |
| 164 | Tanna | Martin Butler Bentley Dean | Australia | 7'121 |
| 165 | Comment j'ai fêté la fin du monde | Catalin Mitulescu | Romania | 7'109 |
| 166 | El corazón de Jesús | Marcos Loayza | Bolivia | 7'094 |
| 167 | Félicité | Alain Gomis | Democratic Repu... | 7'023 |
| 168 | Romeo And Juliet Get Married | Bruno Barreto | Brazil | 7'006 |
| 169 | Au revoir Taipei - Yi ye Tai bei | Arvin Chen | Taiwan | 6'980 |
| 170 | Okhotnik - The Hunter | Serik Aprimov | Kazakhstan | 6'939 |
| 171 | Po di sangui | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | 6'866 |
| 172 | Et la vie continue - Zendegi edamé dârad | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | 6'850 |
| 173 | The Seven Samurai - Shichinin no samurai | Akira KUROSAWA | Japan | 6'835 |
| 174 | The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil | 6'760 |
| 175 | I was born, but - Umarete wa mita keredo | Yasujiro OZU | Japan | 6'747 |
| 176 | Mille mois - Alf Chahr | Faouzi Bensaidi | Morocco | 6'652 |
| 177 | Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | 6'596 |
| 178 | Tokyo Family | Yoji Yamada | Japan | 6'567 |
| 179 | Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn | Ernest Abdyjaparov | Kyrgyzstan | 6'392 |
| 180 | Mohenjo Daro | Ashutosh Gowariker | India | 6'342 |
| 181 | Modest Reception - Paziraie Sadeh | Mani Haghighi | Iran | 6'285 |
| 182 | Ejforija - Euphoria | Ivan Vyrypaev | Russia | 6'272 |
| 183 | Al Leil | Mohamed Malas | Syria | 6'241 |
| 184 | Frontier Blues | Babak Jalali | Iran | 6'212 |
| 185 | Season of the Horse - Jifeng Zhong De Ma | Cai NING | Mongolia | 6'197 |
| 186 | Melaza | Carlos Lechuga | Cuba | 5'990 |
| 187 | Fatma | Khaled Ghorbal | Tunisia | 5'966 |
| 188 | Supa Modo | Likarion Wainaina | Kenya | 5'943 |
| 189 | Saratan | Ernest Abdyjaparov | Kyrgyzstan | 5'883 |
| 190 | To the Ends of the Earth | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Uzbekistan | 5'814 |
| 191 | Silent Souls - Ovsyanki | Aleksei Fedorchenko | Russia | 5'812 |
| 192 | God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya | Teona Strugar Mitevska | North Macedonia | 5'810 |
| 193 | Atlantique | Mati Diop | Senegal | 5'803 |
| 194 | Lluvia | Paula Hernández | Argentina | 5'795 |
| 195 | Ajami | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Israel | 5'744 |
| 196 | A peine j'ouvre les yeux | Leyla Bouzid | Tunisia | 5'741 |
| 197 | Wolf and Sheep | Shahrbanoo Sadat | Afghanistan | 5'736 |
| 198 | Honeymoons - Medeni Mesec | Goran Paskaljevic | Serbia | 5'719 |
| 199 | Dignidad de los nadies, La | Fernando Solanas | Argentina | 5'701 |
| 200 | Stalker | Andrei Tarkowski | Russia | 5'697 |
| 201 | Okaeri | Makoto Shinozaki | Japan | 5'642 |
| 202 | Tokyo monogatari - Tokyo Story | Yasujiro OZU | Japan | 5'605 |
| 203 | Un soir après la guerre | Rithy Panh | Cambodia | 5'514 |
| 204 | Las vidas posibles | Sandra Gugliotta | Argentina | 5'504 |
| 205 | Swaham | Shaji N. Karun | India | 5'427 |
| 206 | Hello Hemingway | Fernando Pérez | Cuba | 5'354 |
| 207 | Class Enemy - Razredni Sovraznik | Rok Biček | Slovenia | 5'328 |
| 208 | Rara | Pepa San Martin | Chile | 5'320 |
| 209 | Lugares comunes | Adolfo Aristarain | Argentina | 5'266 |
| 210 | Teza | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia | 5'236 |
| 211 | Aga | Milko Lazarov | Bulgaria | 5'219 |
| 212 | La mirada invisible | Diego Lerman | Argentina | 5'206 |
| 213 | L'intrepido | Gianni Amelio | Italy | 5'169 |
| 214 | The Woman in the Dunes - Suna no onna | Hiroshi TESHIGAHARA | Japan | 5'148 |
| 215 | Snijeg - Snow | Aida Begic | Bosnia and Herz... | 5'129 |
| 216 | So Long, My Son | Xiaoshuai Wang | China | 5'055 |
| 217 | Corn Island | George Ovashvili | Georgia | 5'037 |
| 218 | My Name is Salt | Farida Pacha | India | 4'906 |
| 219 | Le miracle du Saint Inconnu | Alaa Eddine Aljem | Morocco | 4'903 |
| 220 | Lola | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines | 4'762 |
| 221 | Air Doll - Kûki ningyô | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 4'737 |
| 222 | Numafung | Nabin Subba | Nepal | 4'728 |
| 223 | Mr. Kaplan | Álvaro Brechner | Uruguay | 4'694 |
| 224 | Night Train - Ye che | Yinan Diao | China | 4'679 |
| 225 | Barroco | Paul Leduc | Mexico | 4'643 |
| 226 | Zehn Milliarden - Wie werden wir alle satt | Valentin Thurn | India | 4'633 |
| 227 | Sonhos de Peixe | Kirill Mikhanovsky | Brazil | 4'620 |
| 228 | Tangos - el exilio de Gardel | Fernando Solanas | Argentina | 4'605 |
| 229 | Ema y Gastón | Pablo Larraín | Chile | 4'595 |
| 230 | Flower Island - Ggot seom | Il-gon Song | South Korea | 4'563 |
| 231 | Urga | Nikita Michalkow | Mongolia | 4'534 |
| 232 | Shanghai, Shimen Road | Haolun Shu | China | 4'522 |
| 233 | Gabriel and the Mountain | Fellipe Barbosa | Tanzania | 4'502 |
| 234 | L'autre monde | Merzak Allouache | Algeria | 4'446 |
| 235 | Después de la tormenta | Tristan Bauer | Argentina | 4'441 |
| 236 | Pather Panchali - Song of the Little Road | Satyajit Ray | India | 4'399 |
| 237 | El otro | Ariel Rotter | Argentina | 4'386 |
| 238 | Workers | José Luis Valle | Mexico | 4'369 |
| 239 | Avé | Konstantin Bojanov | Bulgaria | 4'368 |
| 240 | Compañeros - La noche de 12 años | Álvaro Brechner | Uruguay | 4'362 |
| 241 | Delwende | S. Pierre Yameogo | Burkina Faso | 4'346 |
| 242 | Hana Yori mo Naho | Hirokazu KORE-EDA | Japan | 4'284 |
| 243 | Extraño | Santiago Loza | Argentina | 4'264 |
| 244 | WWW - What a Wonderful World | Faouzi Bensaidi | Morocco | 4'248 |
| 245 | Blind Dates | Levan Koguashvili | Georgia | 4'234 |
| 246 | Yellow Card | John Riber | Zimbabwe | 4'228 |
| 247 | La Yuma | Florence Jaugey | Nicaragua | 4'223 |
| 248 | Borges - Los libros y la noche | Tristan Bauer | Argentina | 4'187 |
| 249 | Klamek Ji Bo Beko | Nizamettin Ariç | Armenia | 4'152 |
| 250 | Chunhyang Dong | Kwon-taek Im | South Korea | 4'140 |
