–sensemaking+
Lena Marie Rheinländer | 2025 | Experimental, Dance, Comedy | 23.5 min
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
A Tale of Decay.
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
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 research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
Anyone who wants to eat meat must pass a test.
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
A flat search through death notices
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Mrs. Bünzli does not want to take in a refugee.
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
A film about groups, their moods and dynamics that can emerge throughout a day.
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Is love more than just a projection?
Stop feeding the salamanders!
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Silvia is going through a day of defeat.
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have switched bodies.
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Crush. Crush. Crash.
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.
Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
How does one stand growing old?
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover 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 mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
A digital shopping experience.
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
13-year-old Emil fearfully awaits his mother’s arrival.
Sweat, blood and tears go into making every dish.
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
Princess Therese of Bavaria, travels incognito to Brazil in 1888.
A Swiss-Korean girl meets a mysterious North Korean man, who appears in her wardrobe.
During a night’s drive, Luca is caught up in his past and loses his sense of reality.
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Dialogue with a penal colony.
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?
In search of a stranger, a young woman goes into her deepest dream world.
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
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.
Irna seeks comfort in her own world, where rubber doll Elias makes up her reality.
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
Leon finally wants to leave everything behind him and start a new life.
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
Pippa looses herself in dreams of becoming a famous actress.
Luka is clattering through the night with his Piaggio Ciao until he met a little boy..
A man tries to safe the employees of a Swiss bank by the use of interventions.
An intimate play about dark and hidden desires.
David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
The view of a child of a family breaking apart
Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
Lea is in the middle of her preparation for an important figure skating competition.
Maren is a tourguide. Her motto: keep smiling & retain composure, until Max is in her bus.
15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
Anna has doubts but she must decide and go down a painful path.
Two friends are partying with an unexpected visitor.
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
A girl with Turkish heritage who discovers that she has none and many home countries.
Shortly before a fight, boxer Tom hast lost his courage to win.
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
A women, in a car, in the woods, at night. She hits something with her car.
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
A portrait of an manic-depressive teenager
Carnival
A flat full of cameras and a cat with hurt feelings are going to be Monas’ worst nightmare
An concept about machines and their transcendency.
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Anoosh and Arash are at the centre of Tehran’s underground techno scene.
While Elin is doing a geological expedition she gets disturbed by an unexpected incident.
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Alina is fifteen when her stepfather, a stately Nigerian, is arrested for dealing drugs
Katharinas decision to leave the band is more sweeping than it seems.
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
A cinematographic experiment in four episodes.
An homage to the unspectacular.
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.
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 documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
Rafi and Alex decide to focus on a new science: Paleontology.
NATALIE (35) has a first date with SASCHA (40), a guy from a dating website,
The quest for happiness between hotdogs, free parking spaces, and self-assembly furniture.
Anna (20) steals things. Pieces of luggage is what she likes best.
A serial killer terrorizes Zurich.
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
Do fat girls fuck better?
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Hanna almost came to terms as a permanent guest at the campsite.
A little work of art can have a big impact.
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
One day, Riham finds his father dying in the desert.
...in july, at the campsite by a river.
Nadir realizes that his son has had a change of heart he never thought was possible.
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.
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
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 summer everyone goes on vacation, to the beach I guess."
Girl meets boy on the moon.
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Forced to be alone: Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. To
What is love?
The film is about a carpentry apprentice who is confronted with his craft and himself.
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
UNKNOWN TERRITORY accompanies young migrants during school in the integration class Basel.
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Silent hide-and-seek.
Lolita goes anarchy.
Surrogacy in a clinic in the Northwest of India.
To be able to finish the school, i have to deliver something now.
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.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
«Heidi goes Alfa» is a 10 year project about my car and myself.
A nightmare awakes Luca out of his wedding night.
To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
Parachutes takes place in a future where the sea doesn’t exist anymore.
An inward journey through a distant country
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Twenties. A young and solitary alchemist. His dedication: Botanical species and nymphs.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Three siblings are growing up in the war.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love.
Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
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.
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Leyla (15) is caught in an unhealthy relationship with "Big", an unpredictable man.
The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
Right in the middle of.
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Eddy just wants to throw some baskets at his favorite basketball court.
Who said that at home you can feel save?
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
The ransom keeps waiting. The kidnappers are getting nervous.
Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
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.
Fabienne is in the forest to finish her Photography-Project for School.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
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.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
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.
Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
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.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
Life is expensive.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
The last days of World War II.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
A story about love and death
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
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.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
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.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Dolores has had enough.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
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.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
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.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
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.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
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.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
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 takes a car ride in the Alps.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
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 round of inconspicuous events.
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.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Love is just a projection.
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.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
A love story in Vienna.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
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.
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.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
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.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
An untold war story
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.