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Solothurn 2025

10 articles available in total starting from 16/12/2024. Last article published on 04/02/2025.

Nicola Bellucci • Director of Quir

Interview: Nicola Bellucci • Director of Quir

"Quir depicts a whole range of bodies, because the body is a political object"

The director explains what it meant to him to meet a community which has chosen to turn pain into joy and how filming bodies can become a political act  

04/02 | Solothurn 2025

Maria Nicollier • Director of Road’s End in Taiwan

Interview: Maria Nicollier • Director of Road’s End in Taiwan

“I wrote the script while travelling”

The Swiss director explains why she decided to shoot her film in Taiwan and what were the challenges of having actors with very different personalities working together  

04/02 | Solothurn 2025

Immortals and Quir reign supreme in the Solothurn Film Festival

Immortals and Quir reign supreme in the Solothurn Film Festival

The winners of the festival’s 60th edition include Maja Tschumi and Nicola Bellucci’s titles, alongside Nikola Ilić’s short film Exit Through The Cuckoo’s Nest  

31/01 | Solothurn 2025 | Awards

Review: Quir

Review: Quir

With courage and bucketloads of affection, Nicola Bellucci’s new feature portrays characters on the edge who are struggling to survive in a world which would rather forget them  

29/01 | Solothurn 2025

Review: When We Were Sisters

Review: When We Were Sisters

Lisa Brühlmann's second feature is about adolescence but also about the difficulty of growing up in a world of adults that is about to explode, overwhelmed by emotions that have become uncontrollable  

29/01 | Solothurn 2025

Review: Iceman

Review: Iceman

Corina Gamma tells the incredible story of the life of famous explorer Konrad Steffen, who mysteriously disappeared amongst the polar ice to which he was viscerally connected  

29/01 | Solothurn 2025

Review: Road’s End in Taiwan

Review: Road’s End in Taiwan

Maria Nicollier chooses Taiwan, its lush nature and its contradictions, as the setting for her film, a family road movie led by three brothers who nevertheless don’t know each other  

28/01 | Solothurn 2025

Review: Tarantism Revisited

Review: Tarantism Revisited

Anja Dreschke and Michaela Schäuble transport us to the heart of Apulia where dancing becomes a form of catharsis, allowing scores of women to liberate themselves from the pain of everyday life  

28/01 | Solothurn 2025

Review: Norma Dorma

Review: Norma Dorma

Lorenz Suter tackles the topic of parenthood, cannily playing with the concepts of reality and fiction, the difficulties of everyday life, and the desire to escape to reassuring parallel worlds  

28/01 | Solothurn 2025

The Solothurn Film Festival announces its 60th edition line-up

The Solothurn Film Festival announces its 60th edition line-up

Thomas Haemmerli's Die Hinterlassenschaft des Bruno Stefanini will open this year’s event, which is set to foreground the new generation of filmmakers and the theme of legacy  

16/12/2024 | Solothurn 2025

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