living well
Zoé Kugler | 2025 | Documentary, Drama | 16.5 min
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A Tale of Decay.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
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.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
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.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A flat search through death notices
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Is love more than just a projection?
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
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.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
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.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
How does one stand growing old?
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A digital shopping experience.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
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.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
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.
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.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
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.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Carnival
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
An homage to the unspectacular.
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.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
...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.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
What is love?
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
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.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
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.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Right in the middle of.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
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.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Who said that at home you can feel save?
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
An inward journey through a distant country
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
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.
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.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
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.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
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.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
The last days of World War II.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Life is expensive.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A story about love and death
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
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 Boxer is visited by his brother.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
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.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Dolores has had enough.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
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.
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.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
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.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
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.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
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.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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.
Love is just a projection.
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.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
A love story in Vienna.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Can birds fly in the cage?
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
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.
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.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An untold war story
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
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.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
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.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.