Fireline
Francis Meier | 2025 | Drama | 15 min
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
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.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
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 Tale of Decay.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
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.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A flat search through death notices
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
Is love more than just a projection?
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
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.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
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.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
How does one stand growing old?
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A digital shopping experience.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
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A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
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.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
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.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
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.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
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?
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
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.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
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.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
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
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
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.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
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.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Carnival
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
An homage to the unspectacular.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
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.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Do fat girls fuck better?
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
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.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
What is love?
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Lolita goes anarchy.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
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.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
An inward journey through a distant country
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
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!
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Right in the middle of.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
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”.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
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.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
The last days of World War II.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A story about love and death
Life is expensive.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
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.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
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.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
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.
Dolores has had enough.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
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.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
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.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Love is just a projection.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
A love story in Vienna.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
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.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An untold war story
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.