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Françoise Deriaz


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

Goretta to receive Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement

At the 2010 Quartz Swiss Film Awards ceremony, an Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement will be presented to Claude Goretta by actor Jean-Luc Bideau on March 6 in Lucerne. An emblematic figure...  

26/02/2010 | Awards | Switzerland

Chessex brought to big screen

Producers Yves Gasser (Switzerland) and Marie-Laure Reyre (France) are involved in director Francis Reusser and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière’s project – which has been in the pipeline for two...  

25/02/2010 | Production | Switzerland

Interview: Romed Wyder • Director

Online films Marketing: the Widget lobby extends the scope

22/02/2010

Swiss works on show at Solothurn

Having served as an unbeatable showcase for Swiss cinema over the past 45 years, the Solothurn Film Festival (January 21-28) kicks off today, with Confederation president Doris Leuthard in...  

21/01/2010 | Festivals | Switzerland

Complices

A cleverly mixed cocktail of thriller, love and juvenile prostitution, Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud’s film infuses the genre with impressive human depth  

14/01/2010 | Films | Reviews

Brothers lauded at Amiens

Swiss director Igaal Niddam’s Brothers was awarded the City of Amiens Prize at the 29th Amiens International Film Festival (November 13-22). Produced by Swiss company Troubadour Films, this...  

26/11/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Liechti picks up Grand Prize at Montreal

At the 12th Montreal International Documentary Film Meetings (November 11-21), Swiss director Peter Liechti received the highest honour, the Camera-Stylo Grand Prize, for The Sound of Insects....  

25/11/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Meier’s Home presented in avant-premiere in New York

Selected as the Swiss title in the nomination race for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Swiss-French director Ursula Meier’s debut feature for the big screen, Home, is being released...  

23/11/2009 | Distribution | Switzerland

Swiss docs honoured in Eastern Europe

Vadim Jendreyko’s documentary The Woman with the 5 Elephants won the DEFA Sponsoring Prize (worth €4,000) at Germany’s 52nd DOK Leipzig - International Documentary and Animated Film Festival...  

03/11/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Six Swiss films get export funding

With support from the Federal Office for Culture, film promotion agency Swiss Films has granted a total of €81,400 for the foreign distribution of six Swiss films. Sums totalling €25,000 and...  

02/11/2009 | Distribution | Switzerland

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