Filmreakter Quickies

When the filmmaker moved to Zurich in 2020 she found herself confined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Isolated in her new apartment she discovered the city through super-8 footage from the 70th, left behind by her parents. She gets insight into bits of her parent’s life during the small period of their life spent in Zurich some 50 years ago. In “A propos de Zurich”, the filmmaker talks to her mother asking questions about choices in life and womanhood. As soon as the lockdown eases, the filmmaker grabs her camera and makes her way out to the city with the aim to join her mother on the other side of town.

A lockdown rom-com about a woman reconnecting with her ex-girlfriend.

April 2020. Theatres are closed, artists unemployed. The premiere of ” Auf hoher See“, popular author Eugen Schmidt-Brandhauser’s long awaited play, has been cancelled due to the pandemic. The Burgtheater Berlin has commissioned Corinna Anselm-Burger to direct the play on Zoom. A worldwide premiere! On board are Corinna’s husband, the famous actor Andreas Burger, as well as arthouse film star Gladys Wanderscheid. Martin Tauber will have to build a digital design - a challenge for Corinna’s favourite stage designer. But all of them share the excitement of finally being able to work again!

My gran is 90 and lives in a care home. My son is 4 months old and has never met his great-grandmother. The pandemic has come between them. Will the two ever get to meet?

Uită-te la mine is a personal short film capturing fleeting moments between 4 generations, 1 birthday behind Plexiglas and 2 family photos.

Ziad, a young Syrian has left his country during the war ten years ago. He misses his old life and is very excited to have his brother visiting him. Ziad wants to show his brother how life in Europe is but he has to face the dark truth about his past and what has happened to him back home.

After feeling betrayed by her best friend, ten-year-old Jacqueline isolates herself a little more each day during the school’s morning break.

Over 8 billion animals are currently living on our planet - next to 8 billion human beings. This experimental short brings these two worlds together and juxtaposes the sorrows of two young immigrants stuck in Luxembourg with the mysterious existence of a series of animals left behind in a zoo closed because of pandemic lockdowns.

A mysterious illness takes hold of Sylvie’s husband Rosch. The next morning he is no longer the same.

A young girl jumps on a trampoline in a playground as the innocent and free girl she is today, whilst audios play in the background of women of different ages and nationalities tell their stories of abuse and body-shaming.

Jonathan wakes up in his kitchen. Chip, a 16 year old punk, explains to Jonathan that he has passed away and welcomes him to the afterlife.

A Thai expat lives in Amsterdam, far away from her family and her roots. Because of the pandemic, she has not seen them in almost two years. Her only connection to home are daily conversations with her older sister.

Cara and Clara experience both a different but similar kind of confinement in which there is only one possible encounter: facing the situation and themselves.

After being the victim of a scam, a calm and introverted young man discovers the dark pleasures of revenge.

When a wine connaisseur serves a bottle of cheap wine his guests have brought, it turns out it just might be the world’s most undrinkable.

In the tradition of the B-Movie horror genre, “Virophage” tells the story of a mad scientist and his unorthodox approach to save the world from a deadly virus outbreak. Because the end justifies the means he isn’t his above experimentation on all kinds of living or dead specimens.

« Pool » is a documentary showing multiple perspectives in the pandemic year 2020. « even if you can’t travel, you can still take a journey on the inside ».

A concise and poetic short film, in which a man scrolls through his head through the words, a life that turns in circles. In his aimless race, his words carry him within himself in ramblings between anger and brutality, nostalgia and helplessness. It is at the turn of an encounter with a majestic, almost mystical animal, that man understands that he must deviate from his trajectory to find to see himself differently, to glimpse another chosen one, something that is not in front of him. him, but off the path he has traced until then.