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Simona Volpe | 2025 | Drama | 24 min
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
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 research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A Tale of Decay.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
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 researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
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.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
Is love more than just a projection?
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
A flat search through death notices
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
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.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
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.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
A digital shopping experience.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
How does one stand growing old?
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathic abilities
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
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.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
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.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
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
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
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.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
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.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
When Lena is fed up with her drunk father she escapes from home.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
An homage to the unspectacular.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
Do fat girls fuck better?
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Silent hide-and-seek.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
What is love?
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
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.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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.
Right in the middle of.
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 atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
An inward journey through a distant country
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
The brothers Oli and Jan are confronted with the absence of their parents.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
The last days of World War II.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
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.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Life is expensive.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
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.
A story about love and death
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
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.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
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.
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.
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.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Dolores has had enough.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
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.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
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.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
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.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
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.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A round of inconspicuous events.
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
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
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 fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
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.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
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.
Love is just a projection.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
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 agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Can birds fly in the cage?
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A love story in Vienna.
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.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
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.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An untold war story
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
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.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...