Stefi
Dejan Barac | 2025 | Documentary | 27 min
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
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.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A Tale of Decay.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
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.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
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.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
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.
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.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Is love more than just a projection?
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 stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A flat search through death notices
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
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.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
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.
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.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
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A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
How does one stand growing old?
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
A digital shopping experience.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
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.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
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
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
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 little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
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.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
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?
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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.
Carnival
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
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.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
An homage to the unspectacular.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Silent hide-and-seek.
What is love?
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
An inward journey through a distant country
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
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.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Right in the middle of.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
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.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
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.
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.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
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.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
A story about love and death
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
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.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
The last days of World War II.
Life is expensive.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
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.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
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.
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.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
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.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
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.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
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.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
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.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
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.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Love is just a projection.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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.
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.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
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.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
A love story in Vienna.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
An untold war story
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
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...
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.