Hochschule Luzern (HSLU)

After spending the night together, a couple parts ways. Guided by the activities of the man's morning rituals, she travels into a dream accompanied by the rhythms of the morning train and finds herself alone once again.

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.

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.

In an insect food farm, millions of crickets are being bred, frozen, packaged, and fried. The ordinary, everyday process in the farm is a one-time catastrophe for the crickets and usually ends with their certain death. Nevertheless, one cricket survives and escapes.

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.

The bourgeoisie is having a celebration in a round room where eating, sipping, and dancing is followed by dancing, sipping and eating. This could go round and round forever.

One house, ten patients, forty employees and death. In the Hospice of Central Switzerland, exceptional situations meet everyday life, spirituality meets rationality and individualism meets institutional mechanisms. The film gently encounters an uncomplicated and intimate approach to dying.

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.

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

Above the home of the director's grandparents in Italy there’s an apartment that has been started to be built. (If there was a window right here, you would be able to see the sea). What would have happened if the director had grown up there instead of in Switzerland? The director deals with their own South Italian roots, being queer, longings and losses.

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.

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.

Erwin the weasel lives in a street light and has to make sure that the right light comes on at the right time all day long. One day, a little carelessness throws him off his rhythm and his whole daily routine goes awry.

Joakim, a young, compassionate caregiver working in a dementia ward, navigates the emotional toll of his work as he learns to accept the limits of his ability to help.

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.

In a hill-side village in Ticino, Rea wants to deliver a love letter to her crush. With her roller skates on, she rolls her way to her house. Before she can deliver the letter, however, it flies away downhill through the town. Rea embarks on a breakneck tumble through the village to catch the letter, dodging countless obstacles on the bumpy terrain of the old town streets, before finally delivering the letter.

In a cold bathroom, a woman is fighting a peculiar battle. She has a frog inside her, and it is demanding more and more space.

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.”

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!