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.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
A Tale of Decay.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
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.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
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.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
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.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A flat search through death notices
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
Is love more than just a projection?
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
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.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
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.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
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.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
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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.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
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.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
How does one stand growing old?
A digital shopping experience.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
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.
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?
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Sarah is pregnant and has to tell her divorced parents the big news.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
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.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
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
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
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.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Carnival
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
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.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
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.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
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,
An homage to the unspectacular.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Do fat girls fuck better?
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
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.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Lolita goes anarchy.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
What is love?
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Silent hide-and-seek.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
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.
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.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
An inward journey through a distant country
Right in the middle of.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
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.
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.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
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.
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.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
A story about love and death
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Life is expensive.
The last days of World War II.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
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.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
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.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
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.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Dolores has had enough.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
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.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
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.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
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.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
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“.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
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.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
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 fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
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.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
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.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
A love story in Vienna.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Can birds fly in the cage?
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
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 couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
An untold war story
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.