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Simona Volpe | 2025 | Drama | 24 min
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
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.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
A Tale of Decay.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
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
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
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 woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
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 stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A flat search through death notices
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Is love more than just a projection?
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of 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.
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.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
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?
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
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.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
A digital shopping experience.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
How does one stand growing old?
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
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.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
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.
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.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Carnival
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
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.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
An homage to the unspectacular.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
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.
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.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
...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.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Do fat girls fuck better?
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
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.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
What is love?
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Lolita goes anarchy.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Silent hide-and-seek.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
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.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Right in the middle of.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
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.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
An inward journey through a distant country
Who said that at home you can feel save?
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
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.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Life is expensive.
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.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
A story about love and death
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
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.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Dolores has had enough.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
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.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
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.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
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.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
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.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
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.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
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.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A round of inconspicuous events.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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.
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.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Can birds fly in the cage?
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
A love story in Vienna.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
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.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
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.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
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.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
An untold war story
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.