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.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
A Tale of Decay.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
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.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
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.
A flat search through death notices
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
Is love more than just a projection?
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
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.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
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.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A digital shopping experience.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
How does one stand growing old?
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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..
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
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.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Carnival
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
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.
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
An homage to the unspectacular.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
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.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Do fat girls fuck better?
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
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.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Silent hide-and-seek.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
What is love?
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
«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.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
An inward journey through a distant country
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Right in the middle of.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
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.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
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.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
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 Boxer is visited by his brother.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
A story about love and death
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Life is expensive.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
The last days of World War II.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
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.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
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.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Dolores has had enough.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
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.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
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.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
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.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
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.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
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
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A round of inconspicuous events.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
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.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Love is just a projection.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
A love story in Vienna.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
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.
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.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
An untold war story
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
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.