Movies: Hochschule Luzern Hslu

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 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!...

A portrait based on objects. The filmmaker goes in search of traces of her deceased sister. In the process, fragmented memories meet material things. A journey into a world in which absent people are also allowed to be present....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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...

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

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 liberate...

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...

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A Swiss patriot lives an orderly and satisfying life within his modest four walls. Everything seems harmonious until the day a foreigner moves in next door....

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....

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 o...

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 betwee...

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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 uncom...

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