–sensemaking+
Lena Marie Rheinländer | 2025 | Experimental, Dance, Comedy | 23.5 min
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
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.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A Tale of Decay.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
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.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
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.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
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 chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A flat search through death notices
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
Is love more than just a projection?
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
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.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
How does one stand growing old?
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
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.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A digital shopping experience.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
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.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
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.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
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.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
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.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
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.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
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.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
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.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Carnival
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
An homage to the unspectacular.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
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.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
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.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Do fat girls fuck better?
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Girl meets boy on the moon.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
What is love?
Lolita goes anarchy.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Silent hide-and-seek.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
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.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
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.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Right in the middle of.
An inward journey through a distant country
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
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.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
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.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Life is expensive.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
The last days of World War II.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A story about love and death
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
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.
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.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Dolores has had enough.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
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.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
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.
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.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
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.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
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.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Love is just a projection.
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.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
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.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A love story in Vienna.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
An untold war story
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
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.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.