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Switzerland


1717 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

Admissions in Switzerland remain stable

2011 was the year of sequels, with nine sequels out of the year’s Top 20 films  

23/02/2012 | Box Office | Switzerland

Max Hubacher to star in Bille August’s next film

The young Swiss comedian will star in Train de nuit pour Lisbonne (lit. Night Train for Lisbon), the next film by the Danish director of Goodbye Bafana  

23/02/2012 | Production | Switzerland

Sister: a young Sisyphus in the Swiss Alps

Ursula Meier’s second feature film Sister opened the Berlinale’s fifth day, with the image of a 12-year-old boy, bundled up and overloaded, who goes forth in life as if wearing ski boots, with...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Switzerland/France

Summer Games

The amorous awakening of two young adolescents. Sensitivity, sensuality and authenticity for a film selected at Venice and picked as Switzerland’s Oscar hopeful.  

13/12/2011 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher • Director

"Great things can be born out of a crisis"

Analysis of Corpo Celeste, selected in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2011, the debut narrative feature by a young Italian director trained in documentary filmmaking.  

02/12/2011

Corpo Celeste

What lies behind the stranglehold of Catholicism in southern Italy. A realistic, sensitive and subtle debut feature unveiled at Cannes.  

02/12/2011 | Films | Reviews

The Foster Boy rides high at Swiss box office

Directed by Markus Imboden, The Foster Boy has topped the Swiss box office since its release on November 3. This historical drama, which looks at one of the darkest chapters in Swiss history, has...  

28/11/2011 | Box Office | Switzerland

Melgar brings the “direct cinema” of Special Flight to Gijón

There are films that remain imprinted in viewers’ minds long after being watched. Swiss documentary Special Flight, by director Fernand Melgar, the son of Spanish immigrants, is one of those...  

25/11/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Dan Wechsler, Bord Cadre : "If you don’t open up, it is impossible to evolve"

Two minds, one philosophy: "Making and producing films with a powerful content in a European context". It is around this idea they have of cinema that Dan Wechsler (pictured) and Laurent Nègre set...  

18/11/2011 | Production | Switzerland

Interview: Milagros Mumenthaler • Director

"I don’t believe in forced dialogues to inform viewers"

Interview with a director brought up with both European and South American cultures, who triumphed at Locarno with Back to Stay 

24/10/2011

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