living well
Zoé Kugler | 2025 | Documentary, Drama | 16.5 min
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
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.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
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.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
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.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A Tale of Decay.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
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.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
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 film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
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.
Is love more than just a projection?
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
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 flat search through death notices
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.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
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.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
How does one stand growing old?
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
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A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A digital shopping experience.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
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?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
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?
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.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
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.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
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?
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
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
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Carnival
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
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 group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
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.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
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.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
An homage to the unspectacular.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
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.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Do fat girls fuck better?
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
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 vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
What is love?
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Lolita goes anarchy.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
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.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
An inward journey through a distant country
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
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.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
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.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Right in the middle of.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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.
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.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Life is expensive.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
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.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
The last days of World War II.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A story about love and death
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
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.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Dolores has had enough.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
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.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
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.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
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.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
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 little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
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.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
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 couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
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.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A round of inconspicuous events.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Love is just a projection.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
A love story in Vienna.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
An untold war story
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
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.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
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.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.