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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.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A Tale of Decay.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
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.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Is love more than just a projection?
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A flat search through death notices
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
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.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A digital shopping experience.
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.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
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
How does one stand growing old?
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
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?
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
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
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
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.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Carnival
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
An homage to the unspectacular.
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.
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.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
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.
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.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
What is love?
Lolita goes anarchy.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
«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 story from the swiss backcountry.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Right in the middle of.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
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.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
An inward journey through a distant country
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
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.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
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.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
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.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
The last days of World War II.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Life is expensive.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
A story about love and death
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
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.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
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.
Dolores has had enough.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
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.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
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.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A round of inconspicuous events.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
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.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
Love is just a projection.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
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 agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Can birds fly in the cage?
A love story in Vienna.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
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 film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
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.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
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.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
An untold war story
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...