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Simone Tschirren |2025 | Experimental, Fantasy, LGBTQIA | 11 min
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
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.
A Tale of Decay.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
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.
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.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
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.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
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.
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 woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
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.
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.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Is love more than just a projection?
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A flat search through death notices
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
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.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
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 portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A digital shopping experience.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
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.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
How does one stand growing old?
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
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.
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?
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?
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
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.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
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.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Carnival
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
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
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
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.
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,
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
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.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
An homage to the unspectacular.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
"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.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
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.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
...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.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
What is love?
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Lolita goes anarchy.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
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.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
An inward journey through a distant country
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
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.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
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.
Right in the middle of.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
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.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
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.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
The last days of World War II.
A story about love and death
Life is expensive.
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.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
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.
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.
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.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
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.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
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.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Dolores has had enough.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
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.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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 story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
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.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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.
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“.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
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
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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...
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Love is just a projection.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A love story in Vienna.
Can birds fly in the cage?
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
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.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
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.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
An untold war story
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
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