Spirit.Dust.Ashes.Soil.
Michèle Widmer | 2025 | Experimental | 11 min
A Tale of Decay.
A Tale of Decay.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
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.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
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.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
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
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
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.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
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.
Is love more than just a projection?
Stop feeding the salamanders!
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A flat search through death notices
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
How does one stand growing old?
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A digital shopping experience.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Dialogue with a penal colony.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
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?
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
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.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
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.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
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.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Carnival
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
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,
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
An homage to the unspectacular.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
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.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
What is love?
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Lolita goes anarchy.
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.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Silent hide-and-seek.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
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.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
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.
Right in the middle of.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
An inward journey through a distant country
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
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.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
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.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
The last days of World War II.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A story about love and death
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Life is expensive.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
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.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
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.
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.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Dolores has had enough.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
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.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
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.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
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.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
A round of inconspicuous events.
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.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Love is just a projection.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
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.
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 agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
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
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
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 successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
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.
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.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An untold war story
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
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.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A political hero's journey without a happy ending