Degree Films 2025
How was your day?
Kim Gabbi | 2025 | Drama | 29 min
Unemployed and adrift, Selma strives to reclaim control over her life.
Fitting in
Fabienne Steiner | 2025 | Documentary, Coming of Age | 84 min
South African students from all walks of life deal with an unforgotten past.
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.
Solo Show
Julius Weigel | 2025 | Drama, Comedy | 94 min
An art student, a real estate agent, and two lovers - and their carefully crafted facades.
Eggshells
Beth Barnes | 2025 | Drama | 17 min
A waitress can no longer ignore her grief when a cake appears made by her dead mother.
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.
Anna and the Sudden Grandpa
Elias Koller | 2025 | Comedy, Fantasy, Coming of Age | 14.5 min
Everything’s wrong — then a grandpa shows up.
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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.
Rum Punch
Balazs Gyenes | 2025 | Comedy | 18 min
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
Spirit.Dust.Ashes.Soil.
Michèle Widmer | 2025 | Experimental | 11 min
A Tale of Decay.
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.
Fireline
Francis Meier | 2025 | Drama | 15 min
Between volcanoes and fairs: Matilda wrestles with origin, distance, and change.
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.
Load
Simone Tschirren | 2025 | Experimental, Fantasy, LGBTQIA | 11 min
A not quite traditional fairy tale about care work.
Ban Dal (Half Moon)
Hae-Sup Sin | 2025 | Drama | 22 min
Annette travels to Korea with her adopted son and meets his birth mother.
Forum
Simona Volpe | 2025 | Drama | 24 min
A filmmaker is researching the subject of paid sex in Switzerland.
Stefi
Dejan Barac | 2025 | Documentary | 27 min
Stefan is diagnosed with dementia and must learn to live with this challenge.
Mary
Nevin George | 2025 | Coming of Age, Drama | 22 min
The Indian migrant worker Mary is torn between budding emotions and her distant homeland.
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
Missio Canonica
Sarah Horst | 2008 | Drama | 11 min
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
I see you
Luca Ribler | 2019 | Kurzspielfilm | 20.5 min
Christina lässt zu das Joel Nacktfotos von ihr macht. Kann sie ihm damit vertrauen?
Tauchä
Dominik Locher | 2013 | Fiction | 14 min
Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"
Wo ist Max?
Juri Steinhart | 2008 | Fiction | 30 min
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
Dada in the car
Gabriela Kvet | 2016 | Documentation | 19 min
Discovering Switzerland and its refugee policy while hitchhiking.
Nomina Domini
Ivan Engler | 2000 | Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction | 22 min
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Kingdom
Hans Kaufmann | 2013 | Kurzspielfilm | 4.5 min
A woman meets a werewolf.
Zwischen 2 und 6
Mélanie Huber | 2006 | Fiction | 12 min
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
All Good
Luisa Ricar | 2018 | Drama | 18.5 min
With friends, sex at an afterhour, an unspoken No. All good?
Leonardo
Ilir Hasanaj | 2015 | Adventure Drama | 19 min
The old fashioned young inventor called Leonardo dreams of flying.
Cafe Gilberte
Maria Sigrist | 2010 | Melodrama | 5 min
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
Belmondo
Annette Carle | 2003 | Fiction | 10 min
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Zwischen Fischen
Ninetta Roggli | 2007 | Kurzspielfilm | 15 min
Claudia is always trying to lead a movie-like life with thrilling storys.
Alle meine Mütter
Meret Nora Burger | 2003 | Kurzspielfilm | 12 min
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Staila crudanta
Pascal Bergamin | 2005 | Shortfilm, Fiction | 20 min
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Parents
Luca Ribler | 2015 | Drama | 15.5 min
Mathias and Nina are prospective parents. But their relationship is on shaky ground.
Sadisfiction
Daniel Steuri | 2007 | Shortfilm | 3 min
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Almost everything
Lisa Gertsch | 2017 | Drama | 24 min
Leandra has to bring her husband Paul into a retirement home. But he would rather go to th
Letzte Tropfen
1997 | Fiction | 18
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Tiger erdolchen
Moritz Gerber | 2004 | Shortfilm | 22 min
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Die roten Schuhe
Aurora Vögeli | 2013 | Fantasy, Fiction | 10 min
Offside
Cosima Frei | 2016 | Drama | 15 min
More than anything else, Dastan wants to belong.
Elite
Piet Baumgartner | 2013 | Fiction | 19 min
Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"
Things Falling Apart
2019 | Science Fiction | 25.5 min
In the future everyone has a brain implant from TEL that gives people telepathy.
Idiotikon
Gianni Keller | 2018 | Fiction, Tragicomedy | 16 min
Dimi visits his hometown in Italy, which he regrets right at the start of the journey.
Devil
Yasmin Joerg | 2015 | Fiction | 15 min
Studenten interpretieren Kurt Frühs wichtigste Werke filmisch neu.
Ferrari
Nicolò Settegrana | 2002 | 16 min
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Simone
Rebecca Panian | 2014 | Fiction | 15 min
Aus dem Master-Projekt "Käufliche Liebe in Zürich"
Facing Mecca
Jan-Eric Mack | 2017 | Drama | 27 min
Roli comes to Fareed’s assistance when he is faced with the burial of his Muslim wife.
Ade
Benjamin Kempf | 2000 | Fiction | 10 min
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Alle Werden
Piet Baumgartner | 2011 | Drama | 18.5 min
Samuel meets Philippe, one highly admired collegue of his best friend Andreas.
Love
Dominique Margot | 1999 | Fiction | 8 min
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
Fragments of a Farewell
Michael Karrer | 2017 | Drama | 15.5
A little girl is immersed in the grieving process of her father‘s death.
Nascondiglio
Roberto Di Valentino | 1995 | Fiction | 28 min
Moris must be forced into isolation.
House arrest
Matthias Sahli | 2015 | Fiction, Comedy | 14 min
Hausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to six months of house arrest.
Anna
Anne-Catherine Kunz | 2000 | Fiction | 12.5 min
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Documentary Films
Digital Immigrants
Dennis Stauffer and Norbert Kottmann | 2016 | Documentary | 21 min
A group of seniors is trying to find their place in the digital age.
Between the Islands
Maurizius Staerkle - Drux | 2011 | Documentary | 63 min
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Kleingolf
Marvin Meckes | 2017 | Documentary | 23 min
Maja and Jörg fight for the Swiss Minigolf Championship.
Sarah Sheeba
Andrina Schneller | 2011 | Documentary | 32 min
Sarah Sheeba was born in India and left behind in a home by her sick mother.
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.
Reto Baustellenspezialist
Aminta Iseppi | 2009 | Documentary | 18 min
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
Kopf, Hand und Herz
2012 | Documentation | 27 min
Die Überflüssigen
Andrea Buergi | 2006 | Documentary | 25 min
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Gespräch mit Rolf Lyssy
2012 | Documentation | 38 min
Sous la peau
Alexander Szombath | 2000 | Documentation | 15 min
Love get's under your skin.
Conversation over the fence
Lisa Gerig | 2014 | Documentary, Essay | 13.5 min
A documentary essay-like film about the deportation center in Zürich.
Pfuuscht im Sack
Bettina Tenchio | 2004 | Documentary | 27 min
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Procedere:
Delia Schiltknecht | 2015 | Experimental | 6 min
Bad images should disappear suddenly! Since negative images mustn’t been thought.
No hands, no chocolate
Susanna Hübscher | 2002 | Documentation | 26 min
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Schneetreiben
Nicole Wangler | 2000 | Documentary | 14.5 min
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Balazher
Lesia Kordonets | 2013 | Documentary | 29.5 min
A Ukrainian bus, old in years and kilometers.
Die Taxifahrt
2001 | Documentary | 20 min
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Familienbruchstück
Natalie Pfister | 2015 | Documentary | 60 min
FAMILY FRAGMENTS reconstructs the memories of a divorced family.
Als der Funke übersprang
Annette Brütsch | 2010 | Documentation | 16 min
Disembodied Voice
Maurizius Staerkle - Drux | 2013 | Documentary | 24 min
Klara & Alfred
Bettina Oberli | 1999 | Documentation | 16 min
Klara loves Alfred. Alfred loves Klara.
Vom Ankommen und Aufbrechen
Nico Lypitkas | 2009 | Documentary | 12 min
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
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.
About art, my family and me
Johannes Bachmann | 2015 | Essay | 15 min
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.
Zurich East
Béla Batthyany | 2003 | Documentation | 40 min
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Die Einweicher
Romana Lanfranconi | 2006 | Documentary | 30 min
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
Yesterday's Rebels
Marcello Pirrone | 2006 | Fiction | 25 min
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Daydreams
Anabel Castro and Aurora Vögeli | 2011 | Documentary | 48 min
An intimate Portrait of two brazilian immigrants.
Pofonok
Men Lareida | 1998 | Documentation | 22 min
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Rolling Home
Florian Siegrist | 2008 | Documentary | 16 min
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Dark Black Eyes
Franziska Schlienger | 2010 | Documentary | 51 min
Paul Haller led a life of yearning for the absolute truth.
Dällebach Kari: Zur Entstehung des Films
Franziska Schlienger | 2010 | Documentation | 26.5 min
Meine Mutter
Fanny Bräuning | 1999 | Documentary | 25 min
My mother has had multiple sclerosis for 22 years.
Be free
Camille Budin | 2008 | Shortfilm, Fiction | 27 min
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
No Promised Land
Raphael Bondy | 2019 | Documentary | 52 min
Four young Ethiopian Jews struggle with racism against their community in Israel.
Degree Films 2024
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.
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.
Under the Ice
David Oesch | 2024 | Adventure, Experimental, Science Fiction | 23 min
A researcher finds her own past in glacial ice.
Motel Molotov
Mina Tomic | 2024 | Drama | 13 min
A woman and a married man meet in a motel room for their secret affair.
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.
1:10
Sinan Taner | 2024 | Drama, Comedy | 18 min
A harmless argument between two children ends in death threats between the two fathers.
Going on holiday
Stella Mach | 2024 | Drama, Experimental | 8 min
A train journey disrupts the family’s idyll.
Freight
Max Carlo Kohal | 2024 | Documentary | 80 min
Between thousands of tonnes of container steel, Rudmer is on his way to becoming a captain
Syncope
Linus von Stumberg | 2024 | Dance, Thriller | 21 min
Whim and the Ensemble have to dance for their lives in the piece SYNCOPE.
Lux Carne
Gabriel Grosclaude | 2024 | Science Fiction | 18 min
If you want to eat meat, you must kill an animal.
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.
Passagères
Camille Briffod | 2024 | Drama, Experimental | 16 min
The airport, the melting-pot of different symptoms of our times.
Degree Films 2023
Hemmli
Achille Lietha | 2019 | Fantasy | 9 min
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Theory of Change
Dennis Stauffer | 2023 | Documentary | 72 min
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Electric Fields
Lisa Gertsch | 2023 | Drama | 80 min
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
Without Reason
Vanessa Blättler | 2023 | Drama | 25 min
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Degree Films 2022
Time Stranger
Lara Jacobs | 2022 | Drama | 9.5 min
An easily distracted young woman loses her grip on time.
Der Molchkongress
Matthias Sahli | 2022 | Experimental, Fantasy, Science Fiction | 15 min
Stop feeding the salamanders!
Belcanto
Ian Oggenfuss | 2022 | Drama | 17.5 min
The opera singer Enrico is confronted with his mothers death on the premiere night.
Heart Fruit
Kim Allamand | 2022 | Drama, Comedy, LGBTQIA, Dance | 20 min
5 episodes about imperfection in relationships.
Chagrin Valley
Nathalie Berger | 2022 | Documentary | 62 min
A journey to a crystallized past through the residents and workers of an elderly home.
Ukopan
Andrea Popović | 2022 | Drama | 28 min
A story of belonging, melancholia and ripped roses.
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.
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.
get up and go
Aurelio Ghirardelli | 2022 | Road Movie | 14 min
To feel the wall you are running against, it is necessary to move.
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?
Degree Films 2021
Smoke Break
Alan Sahin | 2021 | Documentary | 9.5 min
Seven places where people are on a cigarette break.
Fishfingers
Lars Mulle | 2021 | Comedy, Short, Drama | 8.5 min
Summer is over, it's hard to let it go.
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.
So far, so good
Leon Schwitter | 2021 | Experimental, Comedy | 13.5
Four groups sweat without noticing that the water is up to their necks.
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.
Antes de Cenar
Manolo Zacate Lizárraga | 2017 | Fiction | 17 min
A portrait of a family is revealed through their dreams.
Forget me not
Lea Gygli | 2021 | Fiction | 22 min
In the care of the forest Yuna finds acceptance for the cycle of life.
Domiz 2
Shafa Semo | 2021 | Dokumentafilm | 22 min
It seems all difficult for the family. But the hope is still there.
Folly for Two
Nicole Doppmann | 2021 | Coming of Age, Drama, Experimental | 8 min
On her magical search for freedom, Mia also finds herself.
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.
Supernova
Rapahel Schulze-Schilddorf | 2021 | Essay | 18.5 min
Destruction is a part of us, we are part of it.
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?
The Evil Witch
Valentin Räber | 2021 | Adventure | 11 min
In a medieval village, Valesquita discovers the sinister machinations of her mother.
Phlegm
Jan-David Bolt | 2021 | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy | 6 min
Crush. Crush. Crash.
Degree Films 2020
Pushing Boundaries
Lesia Kordonets | 2020 | Documentary | 100 min
A portrait of a country, being incapacitated by the war – it had lost its limbs.
Arada
Jonas Schaffter | 2020 | Documentary | 83 min
Arada – displaced to a foreign homeland.
Milk
Florian Hinder | 2020 | Drama | 29 min
A peasant couple loses everything, but they discover love.
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.
Café Zentrum
Fabienne Steiner | 2020 | Documentary | 20.5 min
The end of an era is near – for a generation as for the Café Zentrum
Jesus loves you
Urs Berlinger | 2020 | Drama | 15.5
A father-son story about faith and heavy metal.
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.
The Nitwits
Jan Linhart | 2020 | Comedy, Serie | 19 min
Hate your job? Don’t jump! Watch THE NITWITS instead.
Die Kirche im Dorf
Isil Demircan | 2020 | Fiction | 18.5 min
Gaia
Flurina Gutmann | 2019 | Children | 9.5 min
Gaia lives alone in the forest. To save the planet, she needs to go to town.
Das Ende der Unschuld
Daniel Best Arias | 2020 | Fiction | 69 min
Manuela erlebt auf dem Geburtstag ihrer Freundin Vanessa eine unvergessliche Nacht.
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.
Conversation at the end of life
Fabienne Koch | 2020 | Documentary | 17.5 min
How does one stand growing old?
we are fine.
Lukas Bösch | 2020 | Direct Cinema | 15 min
A digital shopping experience.
Mother
Daniel Grabherr | 2020 | Drama | 21 min
A mother is confronted with her son’s suicide.
Oh my dear child
Seraina Scherini | 2020 | Drama | 18 min
Mother, daughter and cat are looking for love.
Next
Beryl Guhl | 2020 | Drama | 16 min
Larissa, a young woman seeks recognition using socialplatforms as guidelines.
Bićemo Najbolji
Jelena Vujovic | 2020 | Drama | 20 min
A Romeo & Juliet story set in the Kosovo War 1998.