29/06/2015 - This year the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will be hit by a refreshing wave of Swiss films by young and promising directors

This year the Swiss productions that will be screened at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival stand out not only because there are so many (10 no less), but also because the people behind them (directors, actors and producers) are so young, and gifted with welcome originality and an open-minded view of the world. 

The international documentary competition brings us face to face with two filmmakers who are expert portrait painters of the human soul: the acclaimed and multi award-winning Brussels-based Swiss director Ursula Meier with Kacey Mottet Klein, Birth of an Actor and the younger Eileen Hofer who continues, with Horizontes [+see also:
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Representing the very young and promising Swiss film industry are two Romandie-born directors, Moïra Pitteloud, who was selected for the EFP Future Frames programme with her short film The Offer, and Christophe M.Saber in the Prague Short Film Festival Presents section with his film Discipline. Two leading representatives of two film schools, the ECAL in Lausanne and the HEAD in Geneva, which are establishing themselves as true hotbeds of talent. 

Last but by no means least is the hypnotic Chrieg [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)