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Thomas Gassmann

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  • Little Miss Fate

    2020 Adults 8 min

    by Joder von Rotz

    Little Miss Fate lives in a world driven by fate. When the opportunity arises, she slips into the role of the world leader. Unintentionally she crea- tes a monster, which greedily wants to suck up all the love of the world. Overwhelmed by the rapid development, she loses control.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Black and White

    2020 7+ 5 min

    by Jesús Pérez, Gerd Gockell

    An animated children’s film about tolerance towards strangers. The proverbial “black sheep” is mobbed out of the herd, but only the courageous outsider can save the herd from great disaster.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • 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
  • 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.

  • Letting Go

    2019 Adults 7 min

    by Cécile Brun

    Gurgling dough runs through laughing eyes past father and horizon. An intimate moment, so simple. Through the base of the pan into the world. Lost hands. Lost touches. And trying to grasp what is not tangible.

  • KIDS

    2019 7+ 9 min

    by Michael Frei

    An animated short exploring group dynamics. How do we define ourselves when we are all equal?

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Coyote

    2019 Adults 10 min

    by Lorenz Wunderle

    A coyote loses his wife and children from an attack of wolfs. Anguished from human emotions he‘s trying to process the experience. Besides grief and delusion, evil takes up more and more space.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Concrete

    2018 16+ 8 min

    by Aira Joana, Luca Struchen, Nicolas Roth & others

    Troubled by the changes he’s going through, a restless backpacker seeks his place in the world. As he experiences a mysterious encounter in a concrete building, he hopes to have finally found such a place.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Proxy

    2017 Adults 6 min

    by Haidi Marburger, Nina Hoffmann, Ramon Arango

    A grieving mother uses left behind data to create a replica of her dead son. Her longing wish to have him back seems fulfilled, but soon the child must realize the limits of his artificial existence.

  • Perfect Town

    2017 16+ 4 min

    by Anaïs Voirol

    In search of perfection a city obeys blindly to selection.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Ooze

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Kilian Vilim, Vilim Kilian

    In his everyday life, an elevator boy is confronted with the loneliness and the “up and down” of his service. When he tries to attract the attention of his guests, he makes a very different, gloomy encounter with himself.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Living Like Heta

    2017 16+ 6 min

    by Bianca Caderas, Isabella Luu, Kerstin Zemp

    Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly peculiar house full of curious rooms and endless corridors. Her entire life consists of carefully planned and conducted routines. When the latter get thrown into disarray, Heta‘s world begins to crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Immersion

    2016 16+ 3 min

    by Lalita Brunner

    An indoor pool seems fun at on the outside, but things get complicated when one has undressed. Tommy finds his peace as soon as he accepts his condition and immerses in it. He is gliding through the sweaty water. Contrasting colours, sophisticated split screens and geometric plays of forms.

    • Drama
    • 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
  • Ruben Leaves

    2015 16+ 5 min

    by Frederic Siegel

    On his way to work, Ruben is haunted by obsessive-compulsive thoughts; is the front door locked? Is the stove really turned off? As Ruben’s creative mind is invaded by increasingly absurd scenarios, reality and imagination begin to merge…

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Ivan’s Need

    2015 Adults 6 min

    by Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter

    Ivan is obsessed with the incredible softness of the dough. When kneading, he gets lost in intensive daydreams, not accepting that sooner or later the master baker will turn every wonderfully elastic dough into horribly crispy bread. Until he sees Alva’s looooong breasts.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • A place I’ve never been

    2015 16+ 5 min

    by Adrian Flury

    By sourcing multiple digital images of the same place from different archives this experiment in film makes use of frame by frame montage to discover hidden forms, patterns and references thereby giving new meaning to the prevailing redundancy of these pictures.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Plug & play

    2013 Adults 6 min

    by Michael Frei

    Plug & Play is an award-winning short film and game for your digital device. Explore the feelings of anthropoid creatures that go beyond sexuality and reproduction: love. Plug & Play is a surreal play with plugs.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Bon Voyage

    2012 16+ 6 min

    by Fabio Friedli

    Dozens of people climb an old truck for the wild journey through the desert and the ocean. Not everybody achieves Europe, where an ambiguous end is waiting.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental