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In 2012, Switzerland toured film festivals

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- Swiss films were selected for all the world's most important festivals in 2012

At both international and Swiss film festivals in 2012, 116 films received about 258 awards and prizes worth a grand total of about 440,000 francs. Swiss productions notably were able to celebrate their premieres in the world's 12 most important festivals that are Berlin, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, Mar del Plata, Montréal, Park City (Sundance), San Sebastian, Shanghai, Toronto, Venice, and Warsaw.

Feature film Opération Libertad [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nicolas Wadimoff
film profile
]
 thus made an impression at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, while Tutti Giù [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
 and Annelie surprised festival-goers in Locarno and in Busan. As for Sister [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile
]
, which won a Silver Bear in Berlin, it is now representing Switzerland in the race for an Oscar - with real chances of a nomination. If one broadens the circle to include the 50 most important festivals in the world, one can see that 106 Swiss films were selected in their main sections (compared to 97 in 2011). These included 26 narrative features, 33 documentaries, and 47 short films, of which 18 were animation films.

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(Translated from French)

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