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.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A Tale of Decay.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
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.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
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.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A flat search through death notices
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Is love more than just a projection?
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
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.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
A digital shopping experience.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
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How does one stand growing old?
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
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.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
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.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
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.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
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.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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?
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Carnival
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
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.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
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.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
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.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
An homage to the unspectacular.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Do fat girls fuck better?
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
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.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Lolita goes anarchy.
What is love?
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
An inward journey through a distant country
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
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.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Right in the middle of.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
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.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
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.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
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.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
The last days of World War II.
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.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A story about love and death
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Life is expensive.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
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.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Dolores has had enough.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
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.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
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.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
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.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
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.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
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.
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.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Love is just a projection.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A love story in Vienna.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Can birds fly in the cage?
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An untold war story
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.