Heroine - Necessary Objects

Heroine - Necessary Objects 2024

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A portrait based on objects. The filmmaker goes in search of traces of her deceased sister. In the process, fragmented memories meet material things. A journey into a world in which absent people are also allowed to be present.

2024

A Piñata's Life

A Piñata's Life 2020

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A piñata experiences the same fateful day over and over again, on which it is bought by a girl and finds death at her garden party. Shocked, the piñata tries to break out of this eternal cycle.

2020

Sooner or Later

Sooner or Later 2007

7.00

Squirrel and bat. The convergence of different worlds and times of day. Forces in the underground govern night and day – and much more. By accident, this regulated everyday life has ground to a halt. And thus begins the mutual journey of two solitary figures.

2007

Children of Our Time

Children of Our Time 2019

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Three kids are trying to stand strong. In a world where you don’t know for what you want to stay strong. Full of sexuality and the need to define their identity. “We are the children with no obligations, the most possibilities, with the most liberated freedom. We are children who build words. Children who give birth to children. We are children of our time, free from guilt.”

2019

The Little Bird and the Leaf

The Little Bird and the Leaf 2012

5.90

A little bird leaves its nest in pursuit of a leaf — but when a famished fox follows, the bird learns that sometimes you need to think on the fly!

2012

Life Is One of the Simplest

Life Is One of the Simplest 2019

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A collage of five people from different cultures living in Switzerland. They reflect on life by looking at their origins. The liveliness and diversity of life can be divined.

2019

Megamall

Megamall 2020

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Figures that inhabit a world of escalators pursue their desire to consume at a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room where it joins a playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a dog crazy about chips. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.

2020

Schweinerei

Schweinerei 2019

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Anita has been suffering under the tyranny of the scientists at an animal research clinic for years. When she meets the pig Sirius, she realizes that she has to take her fate into her own hands.

2019

Homeland

Homeland 2010

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A Swiss patriot lives an orderly and satisfying life within his modest four walls. Everything seems harmonious until the day a foreigner moves in next door.

2010

The Edge

The Edge 2020

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A lone truck driver drives his load, a ferris wheel, through a remote desert landscape. Trapped in his fears and habits, he hardly dares to step out of the sheltered driver's cabin. His pastime of silhouettes accompanies him on his journey through no-man's-land and beyond the edge of his universe.

2020

Whatever the Weather

Whatever the Weather 2016

6.00

Wally's life is increasingly turned upside down by her mother's alcohol addiction. Helplessness, excessive demands and desperation shape her childhood - a daily struggle for survival.

2016

Mama Rosa

Mama Rosa 2019

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Rosa is from Croatia and lives in Switzerland, with her husband who depends on her care. She takes care of everything. Her children have grown up and want to leave home. Rosa stays behind alone.

2019

Perfect Town

Perfect Town 2017

6.00

Everybody aspires to be a citizen of Perfect Town – but display a deficiency or a flaw and you will be stripped of your superior status and forced to the rear of the interminable line of those clamouring to get in.

2017

Roar

Roar 2017

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A good-natured dinosaur has to stand his ground against a nasty opponent.

2017

The Window

The Window 2012

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A little boy, who likes reading adventure stories much more than playing outside, has to realize that he isn’t as brave as the characters in his books. Entirely by accident, he becomes a hero after all.

2012

Moonstruck

Moonstruck 2012

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The love story begins when a young prince hunting in the forest chases a squirrel to a beautiful princess.

2012

Them

Them 2019

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A story about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different character follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard.

2019