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Simone Tschirren | 2025 | Experimental, Fantasy, LGBTQIA | 11 min
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
A Tale of Decay.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A flat search through death notices
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
Is love more than just a projection?
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Only one will leave the inn alive.
How does one stand growing old?
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A digital shopping experience.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Carnival
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
An homage to the unspectacular.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Do fat girls fuck better?
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Silent hide-and-seek.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
What is love?
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
An inward journey through a distant country
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Right in the middle of.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Life is expensive.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
A story about love and death
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
The last days of World War II.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Dolores has had enough.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
A round of inconspicuous events.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Love is just a projection.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
A love story in Vienna.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
An untold war story
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.