A Simple Drama
Wero Rodowicz | 2025 | Drama, Coming of Age | 84 min
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A Tale of Decay.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A flat search through death notices
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Is love more than just a projection?
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
A digital shopping experience.
How does one stand growing old?
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
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.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Carnival
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
An homage to the unspectacular.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Do fat girls fuck better?
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Lolita goes anarchy.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Silent hide-and-seek.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
What is love?
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
An inward journey through a distant country
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Right in the middle of.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
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 young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Life is expensive.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
The last days of World War II.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
A story about love and death
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Dolores has had enough.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Love is just a projection.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Can birds fly in the cage?
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A love story in Vienna.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
An untold war story
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
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.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...