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1533 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 24/04/2024.

French contingent heads to Locarno

Gallic production will be particularly in the spotlight at the 64th Locarno International Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday, August 3. Four films will indeed be shown in international...  

29/07/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland/France

New foundation for Swiss Francophone films

July 1 marked an important step in the development of Swiss cinema with the creation of the Swiss-French Film Foundation. Bringing together most of the state funding earmarked for French-language...  

27/07/2011 | Institutions | Switzerland

Locarno unveils very French line-up for 64th edition

France, Switzerland, USA, Romania and Japan: these are the five main countries represented at the Locarno International Film Festival, which will run from August 3-13. For its 64th edition – which...  

13/07/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Hansen-Love, Klotz and Ameur-Zaimèche in competition at Locarno

The arrival last year of Olivier Père (photo), the former Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selector, as artistic director of the Locarno International Film Festival seems to be a pulling point for...  

23/06/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland/France

Abel Ferrara to receive Locarno Leopard of Honor

New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara will be feted by the Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13) this year with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The enfant terrible of American cinema will receive the...  

25/05/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Co-production treaty signed

Swiss federal advisor Didier Burkhalter and Luxembourg’s Minister for Communications and the Media François Biltgen signed a co-production agreement between the two countries in Cannes on Sunday....  

16/05/2011 | Institutions | Switzerland/Luxembourg

Visions du Réel awards European films

At the end of Luciano Barisone’s first edition, the Visions du Réel Film Festival awarded its Grand Prize to Tatiana Huezo Sánchez’s Mexican feature The Tiniest Place, which also won the...  

14/04/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Barisone unveils his Visions du Réel

After last year’s departure of Jean Perret (director) and Gabriela Bussmann (assistant director and market manager), who had headed the event together for 16 years, it could be guessed that the...  

06/04/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Swiss Cinematheque prepares to be transformed

On March 29, the foundation was laid for the new Research and Archive Centre of the Swiss Cinematheque on the site it has occupied for many years in Penthaz, Vaud. The gradual destruction of the...  

05/04/2011 | Institutions | Switzerland

Waintrop heads his last Fribourg fest

“Celebration, rhythm and blood” will be the keynotes at the opening of the 25th FIFF – Fribourg International Film Festival (March 19-26). Under the influence of its artistic director the renowned...  

17/03/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

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