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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The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
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Stop feeding the salamanders!
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To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
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Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
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An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
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Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
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Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
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Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
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Dialogue with a penal colony.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
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Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
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.
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.
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Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
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15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
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Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
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Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
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 portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
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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.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
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The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
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The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Silent hide-and-seek.
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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.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
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Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
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UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
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Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
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To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
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A story from the swiss backcountry.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
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Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
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In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
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A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
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Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Right in the middle of.
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Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
An inward journey through a distant country
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The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
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.
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Connie (14) is new to the village.
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Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
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Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Life is expensive.
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Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
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Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
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.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
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.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
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.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
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
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
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.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
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.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
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.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
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.
A round of inconspicuous events.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
A love story in Vienna.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Can birds fly in the cage?
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
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.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
An untold war story
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
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.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.