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Simona Volpe | 2025 | Drama | 24 min
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
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 Tale of Decay.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A flat search through death notices
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Is love more than just a projection?
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
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?
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
How does one stand growing old?
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
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.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
A digital shopping experience.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
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.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
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.
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.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
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.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
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.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Carnival
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
An homage to the unspectacular.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
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.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Do fat girls fuck better?
A little work of art can have a big impact.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Lolita goes anarchy.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
What is love?
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Right in the middle of.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
An inward journey through a distant country
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
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.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
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.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
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.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Life is expensive.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
The last days of World War II.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
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.
A story about love and death
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
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.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Dolores has had enough.
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.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
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.
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.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
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.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
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 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.
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 couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
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.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
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 fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
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.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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...
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Love is just a projection.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
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.
A love story in Vienna.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
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.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
An untold war story
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
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...
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.