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.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A Tale of Decay.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
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.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
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.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
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 listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
A flat search through death notices
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
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.
Is love more than just a projection?
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.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
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.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
How does one stand growing old?
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
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Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
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.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A digital shopping experience.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
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
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
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.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
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
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Carnival
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
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.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
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.
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.
An homage to the unspectacular.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Do fat girls fuck better?
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
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.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
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.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
What is love?
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Silent hide-and-seek.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Lolita goes anarchy.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
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.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
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.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Right in the middle of.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
An inward journey through a distant country
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Life is expensive.
The last days of World War II.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
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.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A story about love and death
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
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.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Dolores has had enough.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
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.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
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.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
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.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
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.
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.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
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.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
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
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
Love is just a projection.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
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.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
A love story in Vienna.
Can birds fly in the cage?
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.
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.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
An untold war story
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.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
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.
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 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.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.