Spirit.Dust.Ashes.Soil.
Michèle Widmer | 2025 | Experimental | 11 min
A Tale of Decay.
A Tale of Decay.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
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.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
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.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
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.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A flat search through death notices
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
Is love more than just a projection?
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
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.
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.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
How does one stand growing old?
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A digital shopping experience.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
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.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Dialogue with a penal colony.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
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.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
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.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
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?
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
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.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
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.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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
Carnival
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
An homage to the unspectacular.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
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.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Do fat girls fuck better?
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
What is love?
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Silent hide-and-seek.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Lolita goes anarchy.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Right in the middle of.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
An inward journey through a distant country
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
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.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
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.
Life is expensive.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
The last days of World War II.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
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.
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.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
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.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Dolores has had enough.
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.
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.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
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.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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.
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.
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.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
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.
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.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
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.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
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.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A round of inconspicuous events.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
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.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Love is just a projection.
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.
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.
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.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
A love story in Vienna.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
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 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 successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
An untold war story
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
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.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A political hero's journey without a happy ending