Shorts

Ungefiltert

Alexander Szombath | 2002 | Fiction | 17 min

One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.

Red Light District

Sarah Bellin | 2013 | Fiction | 12 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"

Dada in the car

Gabriela Kvet | 2016 | Documentation | 19 min

Discovering Switzerland and its refugee policy while hitchhiking.

Was meinsch?

Fabian Niklaus | 2009 | Fiction | 12 min

A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.

Offside

Cosima Frei | 2016 | Drama | 15 min

More than anything else, Dastan wants to belong.

Tiger erdolchen

Moritz Gerber | 2004 | Shortfilm | 22 min

It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.

Letzte Hilfe

2001 | Kurzspielfilm | 17 min

A film about the tangled paths of love.

Make My Day

Kirstin Reppas | 2019 | Road movie | 23 min

Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy

Inland

Piet Baumgartner | 2015 | Drama | 20 min

Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs

Ferien

Memi Beltrame | 2007 | Fiction | 16 min

Alphons is on the way to his suicide

La danse des nymphes

Riccardo Bernasconi | 2010 | Fiction | 10 min

Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.

Nomina Domini

Ivan Engler | 2000 | Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction | 22 min

Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.

Charmeur

Adrian Aeschbacher | 2008 | Drama | 15 min

Life is expensive.

Nightglow

Fabienne Andreoli | 2017 | Drama | 15 min

Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.

Endsieg

Niccolò Castelli and Daniel Casparis | 2008 | Shortfilm | 12 min

The last days of World War II.

Kingdom

Hans Kaufmann | 2013 | Kurzspielfilm | 4.5 min

A woman meets a werewolf.

Kopf Hoch!

Irene Balmer | 2004 | Fiction | 12 min

Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.

Eine Geschichte mit Hummer

Simon Nagel | 2008 | Comedy | 16 min

Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.

Destiny

Wendy Pillonel | 2015 | Fiction | 17 min

Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

Almost everything

Lisa Gertsch | 2017 | Drama | 24 min

Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th

The breath

Fabian Kaiser | 2015 | Dokufiction | 11 min

In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.

Riza Kaptan

Tolga Dilsiz | 2005 | Fiction | 10 min

Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.

Ferrari

Nicolò Settegrana | 2002 | 16 min

A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.

Gross und Starch

Michael Karrer | 2016 | Drama | 13 min

A tragicomedy about friendship, letting go and staying still.

Korpus

Florian Baumann | 2011 | Drama | 25 min

With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.

Goliath

Dominik Locher | 2017 | Drama | 85 min

David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.

Frohe Ostern

Ulrich Schaffner | 2005 | Fiction | 12 min

Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.

Wrak

Michael Werder | 2008 | Fiction | 13 min

Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.

Alfonso

Jan-Eric Mack | 2013 | Tragicomedy | 18.5 min

Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.

What if..

Olga Dinnikova | 2015 | Drama | 18.5 min

When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.

Suki und Besjan

Nicole Boner | 2013 | Roadmovie | 8 min

Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.

Treehouse

Simon Gutknecht | 2012 | Drama | 14 min

Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.

Carlas Himmel

1998 | Fiction | 15 min

Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.

Documentary Films

Hüllen

Maria Müller | 2010 | Documentary | 73 min

Three muslim women, three generations, one family.

My Life as a Film

Eva Vitija | 2015 | Documentary | 77 min

When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.

A.R.U. Die Türsteher

Stefan Meichtry | 1993 | Documentation | 22 min

Portraits of nightclub bouncers at Flamingo Club Zurich 1993

Yesterday's Rebels

Marcello Pirrone | 2006 | Fiction | 25 min

A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.

Padrone e Sotto

Michele Cirigliano | 2014 | Documentary | 72 min

In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.

Sonnenhalb

Martina Fischbacher | 2006 | Documentary | 29 min

Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.

Digital Immigrants

Dennis Stauffer and Norbert Kottmann | 2016 | Documentary | 21 min

A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.

Raving Iran

Susanne Regina Meures | 2016 | Documentary | 84 min

Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.

Japanessay

Caroline Sipos | 2007 | Documentary, Essay | 27 min

Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.

Heidi goes Alfa

Heidi Hiltebrand | 2012 | Documentary | 53 min

«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.

Autopsy

Anne-Catherine Kunz | 1998 | Documentation | 9 min

Portrait of a coroner.

Abi means papa

Armin Tobler and Simon Gutknecht | 2014 | Documentary | 78 min

Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.

Procedere:

Delia Schiltknecht | 2015 | Experimental | 6 min

Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.

Familiensache

Sarah Horst | 2010 | Documentary | 27 min

A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.

Rolling Home

Florian Siegrist | 2008 | Documentary | 16 min

Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.

Meine Mutter

Fanny Bräuning | 1999 | Documentary | 25 min

My mother has had multiple sclerosis for 22 years.

Der Komplex

Fabienne Boesch | 2002 | Documentation | 30 min

More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.

No Promised Land

Raphael Bondy | 2019 | Documentary | 52 min

Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.

Dark Black Eyes

Franziska Schlienger | 2010 | Documentary | 51 min

Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.

Die Taxifahrt

2001 | Documentary | 20 min

In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.

Between the Islands

Maurizius Staerkle - Drux | 2011 | Documentary | 63 min

A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.

Die Überflüssigen

Andrea Buergi | 2006 | Documentary | 25 min

Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.

Pofonok

Men Lareida | 1998 | Documentation | 22 min

Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.

Yo no tengo miedo de nada

Patricia Stotz | 2002 | Documentation | 20 min

Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.

Paloma

Fanny Bräunig | 2001 | Documentation | 30 min

Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.

The simple life

Titus Bütler | 2013 | Documentary | 40 min

In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.

Ma Na Sapna

Valerie Gudenus | 2013 | Documentary | 86 min

Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.

Little Water

Angela Spörri | 1999 | Documentary | 27 min

An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.

Degree Films 2020

The sad Ballad of Isabell K.

Carlo Beer | 2020 | Satire, Black Comedy | 20.5 min

Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.

Café Zentrum

Fabienne Steiner | 2020 | Documentary | 20.5 min

The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum

Milk

Florian Hinder | 2020 | Drama | 29 min

A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.

we are fine.

Lukas Bösch | 2020 | Direct Cinema | 15 min

A digital shopping experience.

Oh my dear child

Seraina Scherini | 2020 | Drama | 22.5 min

Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.

Jesus loves you

Urs Berlinger | 2020 | Drama | 15.5

A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.

Mother

Daniel Grabherr | 2020 | Drama | 21 min

A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.

The Nitwits

Jan Linhart | 2020 | Comedy, Serie | 19 min

Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.

Gaia

Flurina Gutmann | 2019 | Children | 9.5 min

Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.

Human Resources of Ugago

Ennio Ruschetti and David Oesch | 2019 | Science Fiction, Comedy, Animation | 13.5 min

Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.

Bićemo Najbolji

Jelena Vujovic | 2020 | Drama | 20 min

A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.

Arada

Jonas Schaffter | 2020 | Documentary | 83 min

Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.

Das Ende der Unschuld

Daniel Best Arias | 2020 | Fiction | 69 min

Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.

Next

Beryl Guhl | 2020 | Drama | 16 min

Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.

Pushing Boundaries

Lesia Kordonets | 2020 | Documentary | 100 min

A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.

The train station

Elias Jutzet | 2020 | Comedy, Fantasy | 13 min

Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.

Degree Films 2019

Mama

Marlene Maggi | 2019 | Drama | 6.5 min

13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.

Therese

Fabiana Serpa | 2019 | BioPic | 29 min

Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.

Scherbenmosaik

Jonathan Hug | 2019 | Drama | 20 min

Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?

I see you

Luca Ribler | 2019 | Kurzspielfilm | 20.5 min

Christina lässt zu das Joel Nacktfotos von ihr macht. Kann sie ihm damit vertrauen?

Things Falling Apart

2019 | Science Fiction | 25.5 min

In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathy.

Circles

Noah Frey | 2019 | Drama | 21 min

Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?

Hand in Hand

2019 | Satire | 3 min

Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.

Anna Dongmu

Hae-Sup Sin | 2019 | Fantasy, Coming of Age | 18.5 min

A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.

Make My Day

Kirstin Reppas | 2019 | Road movie | 23 min

Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy

Isola

Aurelio Buchwalder | 2019 | Documentary | 70 min

Dialogue with a penal colony.

Cru

2019 | Thriller, Drama | 10 min

Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.

Human Resources of Ugago

2019 | Comedy, Science Fiction | 13.5 min

Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.

No Promised Land

Raphael Bondy | 2019 | Documentary | 52 min

Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.

Midnight

Giorgi Sakhelashvili | 2017 | Drama, mystery | 7 min

During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.

Fomo

2019 | Love Story, Thriller | 6 min

In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.

Degree Films 2018

All Good

Luisa Ricar | 2018 | Drama | 18.5 min

With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?

Elephant in the room

Chanelle Eidenbenz | 2018 | Fiction, Drama | 20 min

Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.

Fragments of a Farewell

Michael Karrer | 2017 | Drama | 15.5

A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.

Idiotikon

Gianni Keller | 2018 | Fiction, Tragicomedy | 16 min

Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.

Riese Mamma

Sarah Rathgeb | 2018 | Fiction, Drama | 15 min

Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.

Don't make a fuss

Natascha Vavrina | 2017 | Fiction | 18 min

Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.

Echo

Jelena Pavlovic | 2018 | Fiction, Coming of Age, Onirism, Surrealism | 18 min

A journey into the depths of the subconscious.

Degree Films 2017

Black Hours

Wendy Pillonel | 2016 | Drama | 29 min

What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?

Children of the night

Kim Allamand | 2017 | Drama | 23 min

Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.

Scherben

Emanuel Hohl | 2016 | Drama | 9 min

The view of a child of a family breaking apart

Almost everything

Lisa Gertsch | 2017 | Drama | 24 min

Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th

The Children of Babel

Lena Mäder | 2016 | Documentary | 50 min

Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.

Facing Mecca

Jan-Eric Mack | 2017 | Drama | 27 min

Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.

Cloud Rider

Manuela Rüegg | 2016 | Fiction, Drama, Children's Film | 18 min

Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.

Sono Pippa

Yasmin Joerg | 2017 | Drama | 28 min

Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.

The Kids are alright

Rafael Kistler | 2014 | Fiction, Comedy, Drama | 9.5 min

Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..

Blue My Mind

Lisa Brühlmann | 2017 | Coming of Age, Drama, Fantasy | 97 min

15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.

Afterhour

Luca van Grinsven | 2015 | Horror | 13 min

Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.

The Blackdyer

Christina Welter | 2016 | Fiction, Horror | 17 min

Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.

Intervention in einer Bank

Matthias Sahli | 2017 | Fiction, Experimental, Satire | 13.5 min

A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.

Nightglow

Fabienne Andreoli | 2017 | Drama | 15 min

Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.

Goliath

Dominik Locher | 2017 | Drama | 85 min

David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.

Stopover

Cosima Frei | 2017 | Drama | 17 min

Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.

Mask of Sanity

Oliver Rogers | 2016 | Fiction, Drama | 7 min

An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.

Degree Films 2016

Paradox

Moris Freiburghaus | 2013 | Drama | 17 min

A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager

Driven

Johannes Bachmann | 2015 | Fiction, Horror, Thriller | 9 min

A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.

Millimeterle

Pascal Reinmann | 2016 | Drama, Coming of Age | 15 min

Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.

Raving Iran

Susanne Regina Meures | 2016 | Documentary | 84 min

Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.

Salem

Gabriela Kvet | 2015 | Fiction, Horror, Comedy | 11 min

A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare

Invincible

Anna Furrer | 2015 | Fiction, Drama | 9 min

Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.

Digital Immigrants

Dennis Stauffer and Norbert Kottmann | 2016 | Documentary | 21 min

A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.

Labyrinth

Diego Hauenstein | 2016 | Drama | 19 min

Carnival

Toprak

Isil Demircan | 2016 | Tragicomedy | 13 min

A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.

My Life as a Film

Eva Vitija | 2015 | Documentary | 77 min

When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.

Cabaret

Scherwin Amini | 2016 | Comedy | 12 min

Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"

Dead Love

Elias Dellers | 2016 | Drama | 9 min

Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.

Degree Films 2015

Familienbruchstück

Natalie Pfister | 2015 | Documentary | 60 min

FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.

Aber I - IV

Freunde der Serengetis: Florian Bachmann, Thomas Kuratli, Cyrill Daepp and Jörg Hurschler | 2014 | Avantgarde | 34 min

A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.

Paläontologie

Pablo Callisaya | 2015 | Comedy | 13 min

Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.

Taking The Dog Out

Felix Hergert | 2015 | Essay | 10 min

A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.

Leonardo

Ilir Hasanaj | 2015 | Adventure Drama | 19 min

The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.

What if..

Olga Dinnikova | 2015 | Drama | 18.5 min

When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.

Conversation over the fence

Lisa Gerig | 2014 | Documentary, Essay | 13.5 min

A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.

Inland

Piet Baumgartner | 2015 | Drama | 20 min

Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs

Procedere:

Delia Schiltknecht | 2015 | Experimental | 6 min

Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.

Opposite

Sarah Bellin | 2015 | Drama | 16 min

EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.

Fragil

Rebecca Panian | 2015 | Drama | 25 min

NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,

Stoneage

Mirjam Zimmermann | 2015 | Fiction | 8.5 min

While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.

Please no dancing

Moritz Willenegger | 2015 | Coming of Age | 24 min

Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.

Project “Kurt Früh Reloaded 2015”

Aquarium

Cosima Frei | 2015 | Fiction | 16 min

Kurt Früh Reloadet: Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

Mäge

Lisa Brühlmann | 2015 | Fiction | 21 min

Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

King

Jan-Eric Mack | 2015 | Fiction | 24 min

Ein frischer Blick auf Früh: Studenten interpretieren Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

De letscht Fall

Luca Ribler | 2015 | Fiction | 19 min

Kurt Früh Reloadet: Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

Destiny

Wendy Pillonel | 2015 | Fiction | 17 min

Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

Devil

Yasmin Joerg | 2015 | Fiction | 15 min

Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.

Project “Sex Sells in Zurich 2013”

Tauchä

Dominik Locher | 2013 | Fiction | 14 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"

Bianca

Anita Blumer | 2013 | Fiction | 10 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"

Red Light District

Sarah Bellin | 2013 | Fiction | 12 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"

Elite

Piet Baumgartner | 2013 | Fiction | 19 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"

Simone

Rebecca Panian | 2014 | Fiction | 15 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"

Huere Müehsam

Anja Habermehl | 2013 | Fiction | 15 min

Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"