Stefi
Dejan Barac | 2025 | Documentary | 27 min
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
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.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A Tale of Decay.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
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.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
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.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A flat search through death notices
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Is love more than just a projection?
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
How does one stand growing old?
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
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.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
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A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
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.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
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..
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
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.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
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 girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Carnival
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
An homage to the unspectacular.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
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.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Do fat girls fuck better?
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
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.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
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.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Lolita goes anarchy.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
What is love?
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Right in the middle of.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
An inward journey through a distant country
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
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.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Life is expensive.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
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.
A story about love and death
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
The last days of World War II.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
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.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
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.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
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.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Dolores has had enough.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
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.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
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.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
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.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A round of inconspicuous events.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
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.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
Love is just a projection.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
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.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A love story in Vienna.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An untold war story
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...