Time Stranger
Lara Jacobs | 2022 | Drama | 9.5 min
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
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 flat search through death notices
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Is love more than just a projection?
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
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A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
How does one stand growing old?
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A digital shopping experience.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
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.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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?
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
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.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
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.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Carnival
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
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.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
An homage to the unspectacular.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
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.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
What is love?
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Lolita goes anarchy.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Silent hide-and-seek.
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.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
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.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Right in the middle of.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
An inward journey through a distant country
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
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.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
The last days of World War II.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Life is expensive.
A story about love and death
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Dolores has had enough.
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.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
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.
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.
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.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
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“.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
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.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
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.
Love is just a projection.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Can birds fly in the cage?
A love story in Vienna.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
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.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
An untold war story
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.