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Françoise Deriaz


134 articles available in total starting from 06/08/2003. Last article published on 17/03/2011.

Interview: Samir • Director & producer

Vilified rebellion

Encounter with a multi-faceted filmmaker, who is totally dedicated to the advent of a world that is more poetic and more just and who has created a piece of fiction that is both atypical and colourful  

22/02/2006

Snow White

With a beautiful fairytale of love, ballasted by hip-hop and cocaine, Samir surprises and challenges, in depicting the attraction of superficiality and the scorched earth of drug-taking  

22/02/2006 | Films | Reviews

Murer back among the big boys

Berlin Film Festival Director Dieter Kosslick personally paid tribute to Fredi M. Murer with a Bronze Bear on February 16, also in acknowledgment of the return of the great Swiss German filmmaker,...  

17/02/2006 | Berlinale 2006 | Switzerland

Good fortune smiles on Carlos Leal at Berlin

Shooting Stars, which closed on February 13 at the Berlin Film Festival, was particularly rewarding for Swiss actor Carlos Leal (see interview). Not only has he found agents in Italy (Officini...  

16/02/2006 | Berlinale 2006 | Switzerland

French-speaking cinema at Namur

Despite fluctuations in its production, French-speaking Swiss cinema has always occupied pride of place at the Namur international French-speaking film Festival (Belgium). It will do once more for...  

23/09/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Stampede for the film by Michael Steiner

Released on the 15th September in German-speaking Switzerland (70 % of the 7,4 million of the country’s inhabitants), Mein Name ist Eugen (My Name is Eugene) by Michael Steiner, which has already...  

22/09/2005 | Releases | Switzerland

Winter without a fire in the hunt for the EFA

Already awarded the the swiss Cinema Prize for 2005, the Prix Cinemavvenir for best fiction film at the Venice Festival in 2004 and various other awards, Winter without a fire has been nominated...  

21/09/2005 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss short films on the verge of the Oscars

Considered to be a trampoline toward Oscar nominations, the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films retained three Swiss short films in competition for its 11th edition, which takes...  

20/09/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Frédéric Maire to head Locarno

Succeeding the Italian cinema critic Irene Bignardi as artistic director of the Locarno International Film Festival , as well as assistant Teresa Cavina, Swiss Frédéric Maire, also a film critic,...  

16/08/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Nicolas Bideau : the new Mr. Swiss Cinema

Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, director of The Federal Office for culture (OFC), named Nicolas Bideau head of the cinema section. He succeeds Marc Wehrlin, who became Deputy Director of the OFC in April,...  

20/07/2005 | Institutions | Switzerland

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