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  • Wolves

    2009 16+ 6 min

    by Rafael Sommerhalder

    A howling wolf, an embarrassing incident and a missed opportunity. Love is made of courage.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Travelogue Tel Aviv

    2020 16+ 6 min

    by Samuel Patthey

    A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing, he will learn to analyse, understand and free himself from this contradicting environment.

    • Documentary
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Diego Cumplido

    Predators and Scavengers” started out as a general observation on the current ecological climate of our planet. Perhaps it could also be applied to the socioeconomic climate as well?

    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Timber

    2015 16+ 6 min

    by Nils Hedinger

    A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they realize that the only fuel for a warming fire is their own body, things start heating up.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Them

    2019 16+ 6 min

    by Amélie Cochet, Louis Möhrle

    IHR (THEM) is the award winning graduation film by Amélie Cochet and Louis Möhrle. It’s a film about a building with an inner courtyard an its inhabitants. While the different characters follow their everyday routines, trash slowly begins to pile up in the courtyard. What seems harmless in the beginning, one night escalates to a total disaster.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • by Noah Erni

    A farmer lives an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a kid that looks more like the farmer than a goat. To hide the traces of this bestiality, he makes cheese out of his newborn child.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Smortlybacks

    2013 4+ 6 min

    by Ted Sieger & Wouter Dierickx

    On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.

    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Non-narrative
  • The Man Without a Shadow

    2004 Adults 10 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    Why bother dragging around one’s shadow? A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap. After fleeing to the far corners of the earth, he ends up in Bali, in a theatre of shadow puppets, where he discovers the true worth of shadows.

  • by Lena von Döhren

    It is Autumn; at the end of a branch hangs a red leaf. A little black bird comes along to water it when suddenly, a squirrel nicks the bird’s bright green watering can. The bird follows the cheeky thief and so begins an exciting chase through the forest.

    • Family
    • Fantasy
  • by Lena von Döhren

    The little bird enjoys the blossoms of his maple tree high above the ground. All of a sudden, a mysterious humming sound sends the little bird on a journey to a magical world of flowers and bees. However, the red fox is not far away and tries to catch the little bird. Little does the red troublemaker know that a rather unpleasant surprise awaits him at the beehive.

    • Family
    • Comedy
    • Adventure
  • by Lena von Döhren

    It’s summer. High above in a tree, the little Bird cherishes and nurtures the green leaves of his home. Suddenly a hungry caterpillar sets out to eat the appetizing leaves. The little Bird manages to lure away the glutton and an adventurous journey begins.

    • Fantasy
    • Family
  • by Lena von Döhren

    A single yellow leaf hangs on the bare branch. A gust of wind blows and it begins to float through the white winter forest. In joyful pursuit, a little bird takes off into a breathtaking flight. In the meantime, a fiery red fox licks its lips in anticipation.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Germans

    2019 Adults 7 min

    by Melanie Carolin Wigger

    Living trough the air raids of the German Luftwaffe 1940, the little boy Paul tries to exp- lain to himself what’s happening to the city during the nights he’s taking shelter down in the London Underground.

  • The Fox and the Bird

    2018 4+ 12 min

    by Sam Guillaume, Fred Guillaume

    A solitary fox finds itself improvising fatherhood for a freshly hatched baby bird. Two paths cross and a family is formed, until fate reminds each of the life it is meant to lead.

    • Fantasy
    • Drama
  • The Five Minute Museum

    2015 Adults 5 min

    by Paul Bush

    Through the wonders of film technology the artefacts can be displayed at 24 images a second, thereby allowing the triumphs of human endeavour to be seen even in far corners of the land, by the bedridden, the infirm and the lazy.

  • The big brother

    2011 7+ 6 min

    by Jesús Pérez & Elisabeth Hüttermann

    A children‘s film about the fun and cruelty among children. Two cartoon characters develop a life of their own, in the combination of pixilation and classic animation. They humiliate and mock the third unfinished figure; but their temporary superiority shifts, as he turns out to be their big brother.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Non-narrative
  • The Battle of San Romano

    2017 Adults 2 min

    by Georges Schwizgebel

    A movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th Century; The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Banquet of the Concubine

    2012 Adults 13 min

    by Hefang Wei

    China, in the year 746, the Tang dynasty, the most rich/blooming period of the country history. The emperor, Li, beholds a court of numerous concubines, the most precious is Yang. The emperor is preparing a grand banquet in her honor. But on the day, the emperor Li is seeing someone else, and he completely forgets about Yang’s banquet…

  • SELFIES

    2018 Adults 4 min

    by Claudius Gentinetta

    In a veritable firework display of digital self-portraits, hundreds of quaint, embarrassing and dreadfully disturbing selfies were arranged in a unique short film composition. Single photos, artistically reworked, consolidate to form a ghastly grin that outshines the abyss of human existence.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Sauna

    2021 Adults 4 min

    by Lara Perren, Anna Lena Spring

    Ava enters the sauna for the first time. She is overwhelmed by the nudity, her thoughts, and the physical sensations. The other guests go about their routines. With the rising heat Ava starts to relax. Finally, she melts away and dissolves into complete ecstasy.