–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.
A Tale of Decay.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A flat search through death notices
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Is love more than just a projection?
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
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?
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
How does one stand growing old?
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
A digital shopping experience.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
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
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
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.
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?
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
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.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
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.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
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.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
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.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
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?
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
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.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
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.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Carnival
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
An homage to the unspectacular.
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.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
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
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Do fat girls fuck better?
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Lolita goes anarchy.
Silent hide-and-seek.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
What is love?
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
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.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
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?
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
An inward journey through a distant country
Right in the middle of.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
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.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
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.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
A story about love and death
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Life is expensive.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
The last days of World War II.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
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 abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Dolores has had enough.
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.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
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.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
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
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
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.
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.
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.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
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.
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.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
A round of inconspicuous events.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
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.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Love is just a projection.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
A love story in Vienna.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
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.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
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.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
An untold war story
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.