Operation Pythagoras
Till Marti | 2025 | Comedy, Coming of Age | 19 min
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
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Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
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A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
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An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
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The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
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A flat search through death notices
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Stop feeding the salamanders!
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Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
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Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
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Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
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Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
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.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
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An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
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Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
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..
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
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A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
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...in july, at the campsite by a river.
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In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
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To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
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Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
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A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
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A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
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Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
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A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
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Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
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Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
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Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
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Right in the middle of.
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Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
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.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
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A story about love and death
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
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.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
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.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
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Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
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.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Dolores has had enough.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
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.
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.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
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A couple prepares to receive their guests.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
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.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
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.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
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.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
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.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
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.
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.
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.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Can birds fly in the cage?
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A love story in Vienna.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An untold war story