Operation Pythagoras
Till Marti | 2025 | Comedy, Coming of Age | 19 min
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
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Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
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Stop feeding the salamanders!
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Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
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Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
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A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
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Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
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An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
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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
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
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Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
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An homage to the unspectacular.
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...in july, at the campsite by a river.
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To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
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Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
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Three siblings are growing up in the war.
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Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
An inward journey through a distant country
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Right in the middle of.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
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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.
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It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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Connie (14) is new to the village.
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A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
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.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
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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.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Life is expensive.
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Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
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A story about love and death
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Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Dolores has had enough.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
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Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
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.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
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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.
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.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
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Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
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.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
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.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A round of inconspicuous events.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
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.
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.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
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?
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
Love is just a projection.
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.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
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...
Three thefts on an afternoon…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A love story in Vienna.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
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.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
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.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
An untold war story