Hochschule Luzern (HSLU)

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.

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.

A young woman living in a bustling metropolis has recently started a long-distance relationship. She feels lost and alone in her new situation, her emotions swinging between melancholy, frustration, hope and excitement.

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.”

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Karin and Herbert have re-converted their house to its original state of the 1930ies. Dina sells original clothing from the 1950ies, and Mario gets people dancing with Swing music. Four very different personalities who have found their freedom between the now and then, and their joy in reviving the past in the present.

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.

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.

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.

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.