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Switzerland / 71 min

Okno / La fenêtre / The window
Camille Müller (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2012, 4’45”

A young boy doesn't like to stay in the streets and prefers to read stories at home, which make him dream. But one day he meets a girl his age and realizes that he is not at all like the hero of his book.

Moonstruck
Julia Maria Imhoof (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2010, 9’

Lucerne – San Gottardo – Genoa. A travelogue of a long journey on foot across a surreal world of drawings, photos and sounds with the moon becoming the final destination. A poetic film about being on the road and the relativity of arriving.

Bratec Zima / Brüderchen Winter / Little Brother Winter
Charlotte Waltert (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2011, 6’

Three children, Spring, Summer and Autumn, won't let their little brother Winter play along with them. So he has to find a way to make his sisters and brothers notice and worship him. And he does.

Bon Voyage
Fabio Friedli (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2011, 6’

Dozens of emigrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal: fortress Europe. When they arrive there after an exhausting journey, the confrontation with another brutal reality awaits them: the European handling of refugees.

Domovina / Heimatland
Loretta Arnold, Andrea Schneider, Marius Portmann, Fabio Friedli (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2010, 6’

Hausi, a Swiss patriot, leads an ordered and happy life in his humble home. Everything seems to be peaceful until the day a foreigner moves in next door and turns his world upside down.

Živalsko kraljestvo / Animal Kingdom
Nils Hedinger (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2010, 4’

Racoon, fox and bear watch documentaries about animals in their suburban flat. With time, however, the fox starts developing a strange behaviour.

Imago
Rebekka Keusch (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2010, 4’

Oscar breeds and collects butterflies and presents them pinned in his showcases. When his collection is complete, dramatic changes happen around Oscar and a strange destiny awaits him.

Plexo
Jan Anthamatten (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2009, 2’

An extraterrestrial millipede called Plexo is hunting for prey. The viewer, just as unknowing as the protagonist, accompanies Plexo on his foray and experiences the dramatic climax of the story with the resolution of this ironic situation.

Peng!
Alex Stoop (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2010, 7’

'peng!' tells the story of a man who dies. The death appears as a penguin which comes to take the man with him. The man doesn't realize his death, so the penguin tries to explain him by pantomime that he's dead and has to go with him.

Krištof / Chris
Anja Kofmel (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2009, 7’

A young woman recalls her childhood and her mysterious cousin. Through the innocent eyes of a child we are led into a dark and complex world of adventure, mercenaries and warfare.

Signalis
Adrian Flückiger (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2008, 5’

Erwin is a weasel that lives and works in a traffic light. His job is to switch the right light every day.

Prav na sredi / Zmitzt drin / Right in the Middle
Cecile Brun (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland, 2011, 5’

The present finds itself in a vacuum between past and future, a place where mountaintops disappear in the clouds. In the trip up the mountain, thoughts are liberated and go their own way into the clouds.

Jutranji vlak / Frühzug / Morning Train
Delia Hess (HSLU Luzern)
Švica/Switzerland. 2012, 5’

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.

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