Fireline
Francis Meier | 2025 | Drama | 15 min
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
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.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
A Tale of Decay.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
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.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Stop feeding the salamanders!
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A flat search through death notices
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
Is love more than just a projection?
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
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.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
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Only one will leave the inn alive.
A digital shopping experience.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
How does one stand growing old?
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
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.
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
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.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
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?
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
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.
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.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
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..
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
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.
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.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
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.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
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 portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Carnival
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
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,
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
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.
An homage to the unspectacular.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
EUGENE (50) lives alone in his small apartment at the edge of a city.
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
A glimpse of a city at night. Humans appear, stand still, stumble and disappear.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Do fat girls fuck better?
A little work of art can have a big impact.
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
"In summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Besjan, a young Kosovo Albanian boy receives from his uncle a job.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Family reunion on christmas eve. Secrets are being disclosed, nerves are on edge.
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
Silent hide-and-seek.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
Two siblings, a brother and a sister, meet in an empty house.
What is love?
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Lolita goes anarchy.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
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.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Tiger`s Nose is an 80-year-old Tibetan. He was imprisoned for over 30 years.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
An inward journey through a distant country
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Right in the middle of.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
Out of boredom a group of young girls gets carried away with frays on the playground.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
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.
May, a young Chinese girl secretly works at a flower shop.
Parents of two children, they try to avoid their problems in their own way.
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.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
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.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
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”.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Life is expensive.
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.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
A story about love and death
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
The last days of World War II.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
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.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Dolores has had enough.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
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.
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
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
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.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
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.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
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.
"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.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
A round of inconspicuous events.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
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.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
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...
Love is just a projection.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
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.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
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.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
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.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.