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Degree Films 2025

Stefi

Dejan Barac | 2025 | Documentary | 27 min

Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.

A Simple Drama

Wero Rodowicz | 2025 | Drama, Coming of Age | 84 min

After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.

Load

Simone Tschirren | 2025 | Experimental, Fantasy, LGBTQIA | 11 min

A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.

Forum

Simona Volpe | 2025 | Drama | 24 min

A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.

Rum Punch

Balazs Gyenes | 2025 | Comedy | 18 min

At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.

Fireline

Francis Meier | 2025 | Drama | 15 min

Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.

Ban Dal (Half Moon)

Hae-Sup Sin | 2025 | Drama | 22 min

Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.

living well

Zoé Kugler | 2025 | Documentary, Drama | 16.5 min

Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.

Fitting in

Fabienne Steiner | 2025 | Documentary, Coming of Age | 84 min

South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.

Flying scents

Antshi von Moos | 2025 | Documentary | 66 min

A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.

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Lena Marie Rheinländer | 2025 | Experimental, Dance, Comedy | 23.5 min

Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.

The black cat

Yves-Bernard Larboulette | 2025 | Drama, Experimental, Thriller | 30 min

During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.

How was your day?

Kim Gabbi | 2025 | Drama | 29 min

Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.

Anna and the Sudden Grandpa

Elias Koller | 2025 | Comedy, Fantasy, Coming of Age | 14.5 min

Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.

Mary

Nevin George | 2025 | Coming of Age, Drama | 22 min

The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.

Operation Pythagoras

Till Marti | 2025 | Comedy, Coming of Age | 19 min

A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.

Eggshells

Beth Barnes | 2025 | Drama | 17 min

A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.

Solo Show

Julius Weigel | 2025 | Drama, Comedy | 94 min

An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.

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Cafe Gilberte

Maria Sigrist | 2010 | Drama | 5 min

It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.

Floh!

Christine Wiederkehr | 2005 | Comedy | 16 min

The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.

Sjeki Vatcsh!

Thomas Ott | 2001 | Fantasy, Horror | 15 min

An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise

Nightglow

Fabienne Andreoli | 2017 | Coming of Age | 15 min

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

Millimeterle

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

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

Supernova

Bettina Oberli | 2000 | Coming of Age | 14 min

Today is his best day, today is the supernova.

The Kids are alright

Rafael Kistler | 2014 | Coming of Age, Road Movie | 9.5 min

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

Le Dimanche en famille

Annie Gisler | 2013 | Documentary | 25 min

"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.

Ölmeye Yatmak

Esen Isik | 1997 | Drama | 23.5 min

Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported

Peggys Parade

Bigna Tomschin | 2011 | Documentary | 15 min

Peggy fights for her womens group to be part of the parade called "Sechseläuten".

King

Jan-Eric Mack | 2015 | Drama | 24 min

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

Männer

Stefan Künzler | 2014 | Comedy | 15 min

The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.

Journey to Jerusalem

Monica Amgwerd | 2012 | Comedy | 10 min

Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.

Apprentice

Aurelio Buchwalder | 2013 | Coming of Age | 11 min

The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.

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.

Oscar

Roberto Martinez | 2003 | Comedy | 10 min

Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.

Gran Canaria

Samuel Ammann | 2001 | Drama | 25 min

Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.

Teneriffa

Hannes Baumgartner | 2012 | Drama, Adventure | 21 min

A story from the swiss backcountry.

Blue blue sky

Bigna Tomschin | 2014 | Children | 8 min

"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."

Lothar

Luca Zuberbühler | 2013 | Comedy, Fantasy | 13 min

Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To

Fledermäuse im Bauch

Thomas Gerber | 2004 | Comedy, Fantasy | 18 min

Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.

Balazher

Lesia Kordonets | 2013 | Documentary, Road Movie | 29.5 min

A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.

Meyers

Steven Hayes | 2003 | Comedy | 12 min

Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.

Bei Parish

Yaël Parish | 2003 | Documentary | 30 min

This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.

Sonnenhalb

Martina Fischbacher | 2006 | Documentary | 29 min

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

Schonzeit

Irene Ledermann | 2009 | Drama | 20 min

The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.

Grüne Weihnacht

Thomas Hess | 1998 | Comedy | 7 min

A man goes into the forest to steal a Christmas tree to decorate his living room.

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