living well
Zoé Kugler | 2025 | Documentary, Drama | 16.5 min
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A Tale of Decay.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
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.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
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.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
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.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A flat search through death notices
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
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.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Is love more than just a projection?
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
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?
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
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.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
How does one stand growing old?
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
A digital shopping experience.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
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A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
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.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
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.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
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.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
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?
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
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
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Carnival
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
An homage to the unspectacular.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
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.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
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.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
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.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Lolita goes anarchy.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
What is love?
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
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.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Right in the middle of.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
An inward journey through a distant country
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
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.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
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.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
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.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
The last days of World War II.
Life is expensive.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
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.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
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.
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.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Dolores has had enough.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
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.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
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.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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“.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
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.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
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.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
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
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.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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.
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.
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.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Love is just a projection.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
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…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
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
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
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.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
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
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.