Degree Films 2025
Anna and the Sudden Grandpa
Elias Koller | 2025 | Comedy, Fantasy, Coming of Age | 14.5 min
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
Rum Punch
Balazs Gyenes | 2025 | Comedy | 18 min
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
How was your day?
Kim Gabbi | 2025 | Drama | 29 min
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Solo Show
Julius Weigel | 2025 | Drama, Comedy | 94 min
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Fitting in
Fabienne Steiner | 2025 | Documentary, Coming of Age | 84 min
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
Stefi
Dejan Barac | 2025 | Documentary | 27 min
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
living well
Zoé Kugler | 2025 | Documentary, Drama | 16.5 min
Women are raising their voices against the oil extraction in the Amazon region.
A Simple Drama
Wero Rodowicz | 2025 | Drama, Coming of Age | 84 min
After her grandpa’s burial, Terri faces grief, love, and her narcissistic mother.
Eggshells
Beth Barnes | 2025 | Drama | 17 min
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
Spirit.Dust.Ashes.Soil.
Michèle Widmer | 2025 | Experimental | 11 min
A Tale of Decay.
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Lena Marie Rheinländer | 2025 | Experimental, Dance, Comedy | 23.5 min
Surrounded by voices, person C tries to bring order to their chaos.
The black cat
Yves-Bernard Larboulette | 2025 | Drama, Experimental, Thriller | 30 min
During her cure stay Charlotte F. detects a shift in her husband's character.
Load
Simone Tschirren | 2025 | Experimental, Fantasy, LGBTQIA | 11 min
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
A memory of something that never existed
Elias Bötticher | 2025 | Documentary, Experimental | 29 min
Longing for a city of lights, Fadri wanders through distant memory spaces.
Mary
Nevin George | 2025 | Coming of Age, Drama | 22 min
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
Fireline
Francis Meier | 2025 | Drama | 15 min
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
Ban Dal (Half Moon)
Hae-Sup Sin | 2025 | Drama | 22 min
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Operation Pythagoras
Till Marti | 2025 | Comedy, Coming of Age | 19 min
A group of high school students has to break into the principal's office.
Forum
Simona Volpe | 2025 | Drama | 24 min
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Flying scents
Antshi von Moos | 2025 | Documentary | 66 min
A research team embarks on a quest to uncover the secret that makes plants bloom.
Shorts
Walter Tell
Carla Lia Monti | 1999 | Fiction | 12 Min.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
Black Hours
Wendy Pillonel | 2016 | Drama | 29 min
What is the consequence of an immolation by fire? Can radical action really change things?
What's going on?
Fabienne Andreoli | 2016 | Fiction | 10 min
Millimeterle
Pascal Reinmann | 2016 | Drama, Coming of Age | 15 min
Swimming. Night. Adolescents. A dangerous balancing act between game and reality.
Good Right
Anita Blumer | 2014 | Drama | 16 min
The long-serving head of a prison hospital ward suddenly looses control.
Ronaldo
Jan Mettler and Jan-Eric Mack | 2009 | Fiction | 13 min
A boy dreams of being a great soccerstar.
510 meters above sea level
Kerstin Polte | 2008 | Shortfilm, Fiction | 16.5 min
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
One Thousand Cranes
Yun Long Song | 2010 | Melodrama | 23 min
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
Cabaret
Scherwin Amini | 2016 | Comedy | 12 min
Rafael invites you to a "Celebrity Advent Dinner"
Zwingerlins Ende
Adrian Kelterborn | 2005 | Fiction | 11 min
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Cushion
Ninian Green | 2013 | Drama | 12 min
Do fat girls fuck better?
Boxer
Matthias Vollmer | 2008 | Drama | 6 min
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Concluzie
Gabriel Sandru | 2005 | Drama | 15 min
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
Pas de deux
Lawrence Grimm | 2003 | Fiction | 20 min
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
The Masterpiece
Caroline Feder | 2015 | Comedy | 16 min
A little work of art can have a big impact.
Leonardo
Ilir Hasanaj | 2015 | Adventure Drama | 19 min
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Weiss bleibt
Rebekka Friedli | 2013 | Fiction | 13 min
After his own death Ibrahim finds himself in an endless white plane.
Dead Love
Elias Dellers | 2016 | Drama | 9 min
Tim falls in love with a corpse, which he should deliver to a necrophiliac brothel.
Riza Kaptan
Tolga Dilsiz | 2005 | Fiction | 10 min
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Der Astronaut
Pierre Mennel | 1995 | Fiction | 14 min
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Sonntagnachmittag
Susanne Steffen | 2009 | Drama, Experimental | 13 min
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
King
Jan-Eric Mack | 2015 | Fiction | 24 min
Ein frischer Blick auf Früh: Studenten interpretieren Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.
Orson & Welles
Felix Schaad | 1995 | Fiction | 24 min
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Gran Canaria
Samuel Ammann | 2001 | Fiction | 25 min
Die alleinstehende Kassiererin Maria verdrängt ihre Einsamkeit.
Kopf Hoch!
Irene Balmer | 2004 | Fiction | 12 min
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
Supernova
Bettina Oberli | 2000 | Fiction | 14 min
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Korpus
Florian Baumann | 2011 | Drama | 25 min
With all his energy Paul tries to take care of his wife at home.
Labyrinth
Diego Hauenstein | 2016 | Drama | 19 min
Carnival
Barsch
Lorenz Bohler | 2009 | Fiction | 6 min
Ein Barsch wird gefangen, wird liegengelassen, wird gestohlen, wird wieder gefunden.
Teneriffa
Hannes Baumgartner | 2012 | Drama | 21 min
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Make My Day
Kirstin Reppas | 2019 | Road movie | 23 min
Reto, who decidedly has enough troubles of his own, drives a teenage runaway home to Italy
Landleben
Lukas Egger | 2007 | Fiction | 16 min
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Alfonso
Jan-Eric Mack | 2013 | Tragicomedy | 18.5 min
Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd.
Periphery
Lisa Brühlmann, Jan-Eric Mack, Yasmin Joerg and Wendy Pillonel | 2016 | Fiction | 81 min
Five life stories, all being connected the fight for their rights, dignity and respect.
Sadisfiction
Daniel Steuri | 2007 | Shortfilm | 3 min
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Girl and Boy on the Rocks!
Maria Sigrist | 2012 | Ensemblefilm | 12 min
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
Documentary Films
Familienbruchstück
Natalie Pfister | 2015 | Documentary | 60 min
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Rolling Home
Florian Siegrist | 2008 | Documentary | 16 min
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
The breath
Fabian Kaiser | 2015 | Dokufiction | 11 min
In the vacuum of depth delusion is pulsating.
Die Überflüssigen
Andrea Buergi | 2006 | Documentary | 25 min
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Japanessay
Caroline Sipos | 2007 | Documentary, Essay | 27 min
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Reto Baustellenspezialist
Aminta Iseppi | 2009 | Documentary | 18 min
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Dark Black Eyes
Franziska Schlienger | 2010 | Documentary | 51 min
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Bursche, Fux und Bierverschiss
Steff Bossert | 1995 | Documentary | 48 min
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Daniel Schmid - Le Chat qui pense
Benny Jaberg and Pascal Hofmann | 2010 | Documentary | 83 min
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
To the other end of the world
Risa Madörin | 2003 | Documentation | 28 min
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Abi means papa
Armin Tobler and Simon Gutknecht | 2014 | Documentary | 78 min
Armin travels to Indonesia with two friends to find his birth father.
A.R.U. Die Türsteher
Stefan Meichtry | 1993 | Documentation | 22 min
Portraits of nightclub bouncers at Flamingo Club Zurich 1993
Portrait Georg Janett
2014 | Documentation | 9.5 min
Gespräch mit Rolf Lyssy
2012 | Documentation | 38 min
No Promised Land
Raphael Bondy | 2019 | Documentary | 52 min
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Die Anfänge der Solothurner Filmtage
Heidi Hiltebrand | 2010 | Documentation | 32 min
Die Taxifahrt
2001 | Documentary | 20 min
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Die Einweicher
Romana Lanfranconi | 2006 | Documentary | 30 min
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Der Komplex
Fabienne Boesch | 2002 | Documentation | 30 min
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Yo no tengo miedo de nada
Patricia Stotz | 2002 | Documentation | 20 min
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
My Life as a Film
Eva Vitija | 2015 | Documentary | 77 min
When I came of age, my father gave me a film about my life.
Familiensache
Sarah Horst | 2010 | Documentary | 27 min
A tragicomic portrait of a family living beyond the usual conventions.
Le Dimanche en famille
Annie Gisler | 2013 | Documentary | 25 min
"Sunday with the familiy" is an intimate portrait of a family observed from the kitchen.
Procedere:
Delia Schiltknecht | 2015 | Experimental | 6 min
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
Als der Funke übersprang
Annette Brütsch | 2010 | Documentation | 16 min
The simple life
Titus Bütler | 2013 | Documentary | 40 min
In the midst of the steep slopes of the Maggia Valley they live.
Pfuuscht im Sack
Bettina Tenchio | 2004 | Documentary | 27 min
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Padrone e Sotto
Michele Cirigliano | 2014 | Documentary | 72 min
In the deep south of Italy a group of men play a drinking game named: Padrone e Sotto.
Dällebach Kari: Zur Entstehung des Films
Franziska Schlienger | 2010 | Documentation | 26.5 min
Paloma
Fanny Bräunig | 2001 | Documentation | 30 min
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Kopf, Hand und Herz
2012 | Documentation | 27 min
Vom Ankommen und Aufbrechen
Nico Lypitkas | 2009 | Documentary | 12 min
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Pofonok
Men Lareida | 1998 | Documentation | 22 min
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Yesterday's Rebels
Marcello Pirrone | 2006 | Fiction | 25 min
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Kleingolf
Marvin Meckes | 2017 | Documentary | 23 min
Maja and Jörg fight for the Swiss Minigolf Championship.
The Children of Babel
Lena Mäder | 2016 | Documentary | 50 min
Children with an immigration background find a common language in classical music.
Degree Films 2024
Winners
Edgar Gomes Ferreira | 2024 | Drama, Coming of Age | 19.5 min
A young soccer player is overwhelmed by the closeness of his friendship with a teammate.
Under the Ice
David Oesch | 2024 | Adventure, Experimental, Science Fiction | 23 min
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Who Runs The World
Aiyana de Vree | 2024 | Coming of Age, Drama, Fantasy | 13 min
Three friends, their “safe space”, the impending end of the world and colorful milkshakes.
Motel Molotov
Mina Tomic | 2024 | Drama | 13 min
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
Winter monologues
Manuel Karel Seiler | 2024 | Drama, Comedy | 18.5 min
As Hanka and her grandfather Bobek open preserved jars, they delve into the past.
Three nights until tomorrow
Flavio Araujo | 2024 | Documentary, Experimental | 20 min
A chemical plant transforms a beach into a white paradise - a whale becomes stranded.
Maya and the Present Tense
Dominic Curseri | 2024 | Drama, Experimental, Science Fiction | 19 min
Maya carries memories of someone else in her head and has to face her own past.
Passagères
Camille Briffod | 2024 | Drama, Experimental | 16 min
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Freight
Max Carlo Kohal | 2024 | Documentary | 80 min
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
1:10
Sinan Taner | 2024 | Drama, Comedy | 18 min
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Syncope
Linus von Stumberg | 2024 | Dance, Thriller | 21 min
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Going on holiday
Stella Mach | 2024 | Drama, Experimental | 8 min
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Lux Carne
Gabriel Grosclaude | 2024 | Science Fiction | 18 min
If you want to eat meat, you must kill an animal.
Degree Films 2023
Electric Fields
Lisa Gertsch | 2023 | Drama | 80 min
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Theory of Change
Dennis Stauffer | 2023 | Documentary | 72 min
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Without Reason
Vanessa Blättler | 2023 | Drama | 25 min
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Hemmli
Achille Lietha | 2019 | Fantasy | 9 min
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Degree Films 2022
Half Conversations
Valentin Raeber | 2022 | Comedy | 8 min
A listless young man suffers from the expectations of those around him.
Motherland
Stephanie Burla | 2022 | Drama | 15 min
Due to the current political state, a Polish grandma is asked to emigrate to her family.
Ukopan
Andrea Popović | 2022 | Drama | 28 min
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
Motër
2022 | Drama, Mobile | 12 min
So that the silken thread does not tear, the firstborn takes over the parental tasks.
The true face
Emanuel Hänsenberger | 2022 | Drama | 16.5 min
A stormy concert. A winemaker. And her blind father who won't listen.
Thing
Pascale Egli and Aurelio Ghirardelli | 2022 | Documentary | 23 min
Is love more than just a projection?
get up and go
Aurelio Ghirardelli | 2022 | Road Movie | 14 min
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
Chagrin Valley
Nathalie Berger | 2022 | Documentary | 62 min
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Belcanto
Ian Oggenfuss | 2022 | Drama | 17.5 min
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Utopia
Michael Schwendinger | 2022 | Documentary, Experimental | 18 min
A visual study of the ambivalence of human needs.
The Glasbox
Lena Imboden | 2022 | Drama | 19 min
Play becomes serious: a journey into the depths of repressed memories.
Der Molchkongress
Matthias Sahli | 2022 | Experimental, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 15 min
Stop feeding the salamanders!
Time Stranger
Lara Jacobs | 2022 | Drama | 9.5 min
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Heart Fruit
Kim Allamand | 2022 | Drama, Comedy, LGBTQIA, Dance | 20 min
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Degree Films 2021
Love will come later
Julia Furer | 2021 | Documentary | 81 min
A young Maroccan in search for love and a brighter future. What price will he pay for it?
Supernova
Rapahel Schulze-Schilddorf | 2021 | Essay | 18.5 min
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
Smoke Break
Alan Sahin | 2021 | Documentary | 9.5 min
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Domiz 2
Shafa Semo | 2021 | Dokumentafilm | 22 min
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
So far, so good
Leon Schwitter | 2021 | Experimental, Comedy | 13.5
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
Antes de Cenar
Manolo Zacate Lizárraga | 2017 | Fiction | 17 min
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
The Evil Witch
Valentin Räber | 2021 | Adventure | 11 min
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Onur Calling
Annik Faivre | 2021 | Documentary, LGBTQIA | 37 min
In the year 2018 Onur leads the filmmaker to the gay prides in lstanbul and Zurich.
Talponi
Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola | 2021 | Fiction, Comedy | 15 min
Unable to afford a fancy holiday, a family hides at home to save their reputation.
Folly for Two
Nicole Doppmann | 2021 | Coming of Age, Drama, Experimental | 8 min
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
A town still standing
Marvin Meckes and Lukas Fuhrimann | 2021 | Documentary | 18.5 min
Everything ticks in Triberg, the birthplace of the cuckoo clock. Only time stands still.
Forget me not
Lea Gygli | 2021 | Fiction | 22 min
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Fishfingers
Lars Mulle | 2021 | Comedy, Short, Drama | 8.5 min
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
Phlegm
Jan-David Bolt | 2021 | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy | 6 min
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Degree Films 2020
The Nitwits
Jan Linhart | 2020 | Comedy, Serie | 19 min
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Oh my dear child
Seraina Scherini | 2020 | Drama | 18 min
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Jesus loves you
Urs Berlinger | 2020 | Drama | 15.5
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
Milk
Florian Hinder | 2020 | Drama | 29 min
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
Die Kirche im Dorf
Isil Demircan | 2020 | Fiction | 18.5 min
Human Resources of Ugago
Ennio Ruschetti and David Oesch | 2019 | Science Fiction, Comedy, Animation | 13.5 min
Dave is the last human in an office full of hip robots.
The sad Ballad of Isabell K.
Carlo Beer | 2020 | Satire, Black Comedy | 20.5 min
Unable to overcome the death of her dog, Isabell decides that no one should have a dog.
The train station
Elias Jutzet | 2020 | Comedy, Fantasy | 13 min
Four strangers are waiting for a train in an remote train station.
Deaf Samurai Apocalypse Ultra
Kenneth Gilomen | 2020 | Thriller, Western, Post-Apocalypse | 11.5 min
Only one will leave the inn alive.
Conversation at the end of life
Fabienne Koch | 2020 | Documentary | 17.5 min
How does one stand growing old?
Café Zentrum
Fabienne Steiner | 2020 | Documentary | 20.5 min
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
we are fine.
Lukas Bösch | 2020 | Direct Cinema | 15 min
A digital shopping experience.
Gaia
Flurina Gutmann | 2019 | Children | 9.5 min
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Arada
Jonas Schaffter | 2020 | Documentary | 83 min
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Bićemo Najbolji
Jelena Vujovic | 2020 | Drama | 20 min
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.
The Film About The Propellerman
Johannes Bachmann | 2020 | Comedy, Short Film | 22.5 min
Josef wants to fly and Claudius wants to make his degree film.
Mother
Daniel Grabherr | 2020 | Drama | 21 min
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Das Ende der Unschuld
Daniel Best Arias | 2020 | Fiction | 69 min
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
Next
Beryl Guhl | 2020 | Drama | 16 min
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Pushing Boundaries
Lesia Kordonets | 2020 | Documentary | 100 min
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.