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- An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- After watching a documentary about black widow spiders, Ella spots a connection between the cannibalistic spider species, that eats the male after mating, and a mysterious woman, whom her father has invited to a date that evening.
- When Jessy tells David she's pregnant, his fears of inadequacy as a man take hold. Frantic, he resorts to steroids. Within a short time, David becomes a threat to Jessy and the unborn child.
- Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.
- Shannet Clemmings, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by prejudice and discrimination as she wanders through the empty streets of a European city.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- Former telenovela star Pippa is in her forties and struggling to reestablish herself as an actress. Chasing after her dreams, she hurries from one audition to another, constantly being confronted with the role of the mother. After an unexpected meeting with her estranged daughter Luna, the role Pippa has been denying suddenly becomes her reality.
- A Swiss headmistress and politician deals with her son's radical attitude.
- Young wannabe novelist Dominique Piepermann sets out with a lively kebab vendor through a forgotten valley in the Swiss Alps where she comes face to face with love, loss and a Fiat Panda obsessed pimp.
- A woman is chained to a factory rooftop. A man offers to rescue her. Things are not always what they seem.
- On a hot summer day four groups sweat without realizing that the world is slowly ending.
- A peasant couple loses their farm. A couple of days later the farmer finds his wife naked in the stable and his world turns upside down.
- In 2014, the Winter Paralympic Games took place at the same time as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Following five Ukrainian athletes forced to adapt their personal and professional lives to the ongoing armed conflict, Pushing Boundaries is a pertinent reflection on the capacities of humans to push the boundaries between two countries, and those of their own body.
- They were killing nature, so she had to kill them.
- Irna seeks refuge in her own world with Elias, a rubber doll.
- In the midst of the vibrant medina of Marrakech, Samir longs for love and a better future. But his summer flirtations always end at the airport and he is left behind in a country with limited opportunities. When Samir really falls in love, he is faced with the decision of his life: should he listen to his sister and enter into a traditional marriage in Morocco or follow love and the dream of a better future in Europe?
- Ugago - an office designed to inspire innovation. Here you will meet motivated A.I. coworkers and Dave, the last human working there.
- Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd. He will once again show off his skills at a local talent show. The winner will get the heart of the lower middle class, as well as a generous prize money.
- Anna, Francesco, and the eight years old Giorgio can't afford a fancy holiday. Social pressure makes them fake a Bahamas vacation through photoshopped posts on social media. The deluge of likes/comments fuel an all-consuming dopamine rush.
- Jeanne, a young chef, has made it to a renowned star restaurant. With iron discipline she tries to convince her chef of her talent but fights against a merciless pecking order until she has to decide how far she wants to go for her career.
- In a single humiliating day, Silvia is fired from her job despite being a few years away from retirement, a policeman fines her during a traffic check, and the director of the church choir takes away her solo part. During the Ave Maria rehearsal, Silvia decides to endure in an act of silent resistance.
- Two siblings in a war, try to escape the brutal reality by making up a comic world.
- At a party teeming with young artists and bon vivants, the everyday, and yet the extraordinary, is happening. On their quest to experience love and life, they talk carelessly, risking everything, and dance on in the neon lights of the night... all together, and each by themselves.
- Late summer heats up the city where people search for their own form of love.
- Ivan meets Paolo, little Jonas meets Ida, another Jonas meets Sandra and Annina meets Jonas - in July, at a campsite by a river.
- Nadir, the father of an immigrant family, works as a cleaner in office premises in Zurich. Despite the tough nocturnal job, he is trying to integrate in Switzerland and to offer his son Babak a better future. One evening, he is confronted with the fact that his son is seeking refuge in the very form of religion he himself turned away from long ago.
- A poor orphan ends up in a high society until a pair of red shoes forces her to dance forever.
- The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers - as kind as they are exhausted - run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all. The Swiss documentary maker Nathalie Berger, a Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) graduate, casts a tender and curious look over her protagonists. Examining our relationship with old age, illness and the universal fear of dying, and gently probing into the matter of our individual and collective dreams, she interrogates the false promises of our contemporary society.
- "Josef finds a propeller hat and does everything he can to be able to fly with it." That's roughly the short film narrative of film student Claudius, who does everything in his power to finally shoot his graduation film. But making films isn't that easy, not to mention flying.
- Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. Therefore he isolates himself from the outer world. One day, when Lothar breaks his beloved toaster, he faces a dilemma.
- In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.
- A small airport in Switzerland. Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight. Natalie is waiting. For whom, she doesn't know yet. Two strangers, caught in a night with no morning.
- The ways of love are strange indeed. Sometimes they lead to the neighbours' patio roof or to the music stand of a piano in the university basement. Both Valentina and Sonnili are in an intimate relationship with an object. Even if the hurdles might look incomparable to those encountered by more traditional love stories, the core topics remain the same: intimacy, comfort and the idea that the world is a nicer place if you share it.
- Kosovo, 1998: When Dunja, a young Serbian woman, finds out that she's pregnant she decides to run away to her aunt in Switzerland.
- Teenage girl Sadie runs away with a much older man on a motorcycle. Between friendship and love, attraction, and misunderstanding, they develop an emotional connection.
- The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have swapped bodies. Lucie wants to abort an unplanned pregnancy, while Pierre longs for the experience of motherhood.
- Hausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to house arrest for six months. An ankle monitor called Percy assists him during his arrest. But one day he realizes with horror how far Percy goes in its function.
- Alice wants to study photography in Paris. She's waiting for the letter of admission of the art school. Her father takes no stock in her artistic aspiration. Anyway, father and daughter estrange increasingly - until the situation escalate.
- Bruno has a monotonous everyday life as a factory worker who suddenly gets out of line when his son appears in the factory to work there.
- I've made an essay film! I tried to answer the questions I have as a young adult. What does art mean to me? How is art connected to my family? And who am I in between? Using only home videos from my family, adding my improvised comment to it, a light essayistic film was born.