Anna and the Sudden Grandpa
Elias Koller | 2025 | Comedy, Fantasy, Coming of Age | 14.5 min
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
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A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
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A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
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A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
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Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
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To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A flat search through death notices
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
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Stop feeding the salamanders!
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
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It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
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Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
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Only one will leave the inn alive.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
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Dialogue with a penal colony.
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In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
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Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
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.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
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An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
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The view of a child of a family breaking apart
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Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
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Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
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Carnival
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Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
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An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
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Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Silent hide-and-seek.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
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.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
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.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Right in the middle of.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
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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.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
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Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
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.
An inward journey through a distant country
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May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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.
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Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
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An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
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A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
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Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
The last days of World War II.
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In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
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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.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
A story about love and death
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
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.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Dolores has had enough.
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A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
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The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
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.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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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.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
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.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
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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.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
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.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
A round of inconspicuous events.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
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.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Love is just a projection.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
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Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
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Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
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.
Can birds fly in the cage?
A love story in Vienna.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
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Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
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The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
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I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
An untold war story