Spirit.Dust.Ashes.Soil.
Michèle Widmer | 2025 | Experimental | 11 min
A Tale of Decay.
A Tale of Decay.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
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 waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
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.
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.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
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.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
Is love more than just a projection?
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A flat search through death notices
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.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A digital shopping experience.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
How does one stand growing old?
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
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.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
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
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.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
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.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
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.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Carnival
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
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.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
An homage to the unspectacular.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
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.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Do fat girls fuck better?
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
What is love?
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Right in the middle of.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
An inward journey through a distant country
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
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.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
The last days of World War II.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
A story about love and death
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
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.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Life is expensive.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Dolores has had enough.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
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.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
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.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
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.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
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.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
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.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A round of inconspicuous events.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Love is just a projection.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Can birds fly in the cage?
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A love story in Vienna.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
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.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An untold war story
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
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.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.