Winners
Edgar Gomes Ferreira | 2024 | Drama, Coming of Age | 19.5 min
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
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.
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.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A flat search through death notices
Stop feeding the salamanders!
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 story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Is love more than just a projection?
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
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.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
How does one stand growing old?
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A digital shopping experience.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
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.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
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The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
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.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
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.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Carnival
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
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.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
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.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
An homage to the unspectacular.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
A little work of art can have a big impact.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
What is love?
Lolita goes anarchy.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Silent hide-and-seek.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
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.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
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.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
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 atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
An inward journey through a distant country
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
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.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Right in the middle of.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
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.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
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.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A story about love and death
The last days of World War II.
Life is expensive.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Dolores has had enough.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
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.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
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.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
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.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
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.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
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...
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
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…
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.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Can birds fly in the cage?
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.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
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.
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 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.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
An untold war story
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
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.