living well
Zoé Kugler | 2025 | Documentary, Drama | 16.5 min
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A Tale of Decay.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
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.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
Is love more than just a projection?
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
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.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
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.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
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
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
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Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
How does one stand growing old?
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A digital shopping experience.
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.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
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.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Carnival
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
An homage to the unspectacular.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
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.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Lolita goes anarchy.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
What is love?
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Silent hide-and-seek.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
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!
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Right in the middle of.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
An inward journey through a distant country
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
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.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
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.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
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.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
The last days of World War II.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
A story about love and death
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Life is expensive.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
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.
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.
Dolores has had enough.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
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.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
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.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
A round of inconspicuous events.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
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.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Love is just a projection.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
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.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Can birds fly in the cage?
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A love story in Vienna.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
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...
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
An untold war story