Anna and the Sudden Grandpa
Elias Koller | 2025 | Comedy, Fantasy, Coming of Age | 14.5 min
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
A Tale of Decay.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
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.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
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.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Is love more than just a projection?
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A flat search through death notices
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
How does one stand growing old?
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A digital shopping experience.
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.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
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?
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
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.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
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.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
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
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
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 women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Carnival
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A 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.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
An homage to the unspectacular.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
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.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
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
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Do fat girls fuck better?
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Lolita goes anarchy.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Silent hide-and-seek.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
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.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
What is love?
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Right in the middle of.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
An inward journey through a distant country
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
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.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
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.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Life is expensive.
The last days of World War II.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
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.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
A story about love and death
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
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.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
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.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Dolores has had enough.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
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.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
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.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
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.
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.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
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?
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Love is just a projection.
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...
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A love story in Vienna.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
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.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
An untold war story
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.