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Françoise Deriaz


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

Freiburg celebrates world cinema

From March 14-21, the 23rd Freiburg International Film Festival (FIFF) will present productions from all four corners of the world. Since taking over as artistic director last year, French critic...  

13/03/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Home triumphs at Swiss Film Awards

Winning Best Feature, Best Screenplay (Ursula Meier and Antoine Jaccoud) and Best Emerging Actress (10-year-old Kacey Mottet Klein), Meier’s debut feature, Home, swept up nearly a third of the...  

10/03/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Red carpet rolled out for Swiss Film Awards

On Saturday, March 7, all eyes will be on the 12th Swiss Film Awards. For the first time, Swiss public television will roll out the red carpet for the most prestigious awards ceremony in...  

05/03/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Geneva puts spotlight on human rights

Sponsored by high-profile figures – including Robert Badinter, Amos Gitaï, Barbara Hendricks, William Hurt, Ken Loach and Jorge Semprun – the 7th International Film Festival and Forum on Human...  

04/03/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Five festivals launch Doc Alliance

March 1 sees the launch of Doc Alliance, a new online video-on-demand portal for feature-length documentaries, which can be found at www.docalliancefilms.com. Five leading European documentary...  

27/02/2009 | VoD | Europe

Swiss likely to remain in Media

This month, the agreement relating to Switzerland’s membership of the Media Programme (see news) will be debated in Parliament. For Swiss film professionals, the outlook suddenly turned bleak...  

27/02/2009 | Media Programme | Switzerland

Actress Anne-Marie Blanc dies

Anne-Marie Blanc – an emblematic figure of Swiss film – has died at the age of 89. Having played Gilberte Montavon – symbol of brave little Switzerland driving back the German enemy at the heart...  

26/02/2009 | People | Switzerland

Exhibitors say no to restrictive leasing (2)

Click here to read the first part of this article. Professionals in the sector – brought together under the banner of ProCinema, a Swiss association of film exhibitors and distributors – quickly...  

23/02/2009 | Exhibitors | Switzerland

Exhibitors say no to restrictive leasing (1)

Swiss exhibitors and distributors find themselves faced with the major changes wrought by the arrival of digital projection. But neither those concerned nor the Federal Office for Culture...  

23/02/2009 | Exhibitors | Switzerland

Francophone producers join forces

Swiss producer Pierre-André Thiébaud (PCT Film and Television, Martigny and Geneva), French producer Isabelle Mathy (Pétrouchka France), and Belgium’s Isabelle Truc (Iota Production) and Denis...  

20/02/2009 | Production | Switzerland

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