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

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

The Little Room wins biggest Quartz

With two top awards going to The Little Room, in addition to a win for Cleveland Versus Wall Street in its category, the directors from French-speaking Switzerland claimed first place at the 14th...  

14/03/2011 | Awards | Switzerland

Coveted Swiss Quartz awards to be announced tomorrow

On Saturday, March 12 in Lucerne, the winners of the 2011 Quartz Swiss Film Awards will be announced. For the moment, only the Honorary Award laureate has been revealed: producer Marcel Hoehn (T&C...  

11/03/2011 | Awards | Switzerland

Interview: Béla Tarr • Director

Simple and pure

Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr won the Silver Bear at the 2011 Berlinale for his latest film, The Turin Horse. He speaks about his poetics and why he intends to stop making films  

04/03/2011

The Turin Horse

A radical and terrifying journey towards the end of the world in the last film in Hungarian maestro Béla Tarr's career. An outstanding work that won the Silver Bear at Berlin  

04/03/2011 | Films | Reviews

Cinema and human rights in Geneva

There is no doubt the debates will be lively at the 9th Film Festival and International Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), which opens tomorrow in Geneva against the backdrop of the “Arab spring”....  

03/03/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Switzerland signs new trilateral co-production treaty

As guest of the Berlin International Film Festival, Swiss Head of Parliament Bundesrat Didier Burkhalter signed a new agreement between Switzerland, Germany and Austria, which will extend the...  

23/02/2011 | Legislation | Switzerland

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