03/02/2009

Flying the Swiss flag at the Berlin International Film Festival, actress Céline Bolomey (Vincent Pluss’ The Noise In My Head [+see also:
trailer
interview: Céline Bolomey
film profile], to be presented at the European Film Market) is sure to shine at Shooting Stars 2009, but cannot change the fact that local productions are thin on the ground at this year’s edition.

Besides the short Polar by Michael Koch, Switzerland will be mainly represented by two co-productions: Swiss director Sonja Wyss’ Dutch feature Winter Silence and the debut film Soundless Wind Chime, which was produced by Zurich-based production company Das Kollektiv and directed by Chinese filmmaker Kit Hung, who lives in Switzerland and Hong Kong.

(Translated from French)