Aurelio Ghirardelli

A parrot has gone missing in a dreary Swiss suburb. While its owner is on her quest to recapture the bird, the parrot's longing for freedom seems to increasingly rub off on humans and animals, who feel trapped in their daily routines.

The reserved Julia has traveled to Vienna, especially to surprise her sister Johanna at her art performance. Johanna has rented a room for her feminist performance, hired two musicians and invited everyone she knows. However, the vernissage apparently turns into a miserably unsuccessful evening, which might bring the two siblings closer together again.

The airport, a melting pot of various symptoms of our times. In this sanitised place, the promise of beautiful faraway destinations contrasts with the omnipresence of procedures and controls. A scene of transience and nostalgia, where globalisation meets solitude. Against a backdrop of complex machinery, the social strata interweave and the destinies of the protagonists overlap.

The ways of love are strange indeed. Sometimes they lead to the neighbours’ patio roof or to the music stand of a piano in the university basement. Both Valentina and Sonnili are in an intimate relationship with an object. Even if the hurdles might look incomparable to those encountered by more traditional love stories, the core topics remain the same: intimacy, comfort and the idea that the world is a nicer place if you share it.

Once upon a time O is haunted by a reoccurring nightmare and goes for a walk in the woods. O knows about the eerie tales of this particular forest but could not be bothered. O meets a monster called Love. As the weather changes and and a storm arises O falls for a motoprince. The Morning after, O wakes up and vomits a dead butterfly.

An Albanian family struggles to stay afloat and integrate in Switzerland. In the process, the learning disability of the youngest family member puts the family to an additional test. The parents lack the time and money to support her in school. The older sister, who is still a child herself, takes over the responsibility and puts her needs in the background.