Fireline
Francis Meier | 2025 | Drama | 15 min
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth 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.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A Tale of Decay.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
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 researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
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.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A flat search through death notices
Is love more than just a projection?
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
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.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
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?
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
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A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
How does one stand growing old?
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A digital shopping experience.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
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.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
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.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
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.
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.
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.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
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.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Carnival
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
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.
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
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.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
An homage to the unspectacular.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
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.
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,
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
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.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
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?
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Silent hide-and-seek.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
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.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
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.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
An inward journey through a distant country
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Right in the middle of.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
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.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
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.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
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.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
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.
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.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
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.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
The last days of World War II.
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.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Life is expensive.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A story about love and death
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
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.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Dolores has had enough.
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.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
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
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
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.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
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.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
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.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Love is just a projection.
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.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
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.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A love story in Vienna.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
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.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
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.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
An untold war story
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
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.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...