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1751 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 12/11/2025.

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

Off Beat: Love and Other Drugs

The Swiss Panorama title Off Beat is director Jan Gassmann’s first fiction feature and his second effort to be showcased at the Berlinale after his 2007 documentary Chrigu. The 90-minute film is...  

18/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Panorama/Switzerland

Francophone Film Development Fund announces results in Berlin

The committee at the second session of the Francophone Film Development Fund announced its results on Monday in Berlin. The Fund, set up in May 2009 at Cannes, aims to contribute to the...  

16/02/2011 | Funding | Belgium/France/Switzerland/Luxembourg

Swiss films descend on Berlin

There are numerous Swiss productions and co-productions in the line-up at the 61st Berlinale, which runs February 10-20. Co-produced by Zurich-based Vega Film, Hungarian director Béla Tarr’s The...  

09/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Switzerland

Kummer appointed head of film at OFC

The job of Film Section head at the Swiss Federal Office for Culture didn’t remain vacant for long. As a replacement for Nicolas Bideau, who left his post on November 30, 2010, Jean-Frédéric...  

07/02/2011 | Institutions | Switzerland

Chair left empty for Panahi at Geneva’s FIFDH

Iranian filmmaker and critic of his country’s regime, Jafar Panahi is one of the jury members (along with film director Jean-Stéphane Bron, writer Jorge Semprun and others) of the 9th...  

28/01/2011 | Festivals | Switzerland

Four Swiss films get funding for European distribution

In collaboration with the Federal Office for Culture, film promotion agency Swiss Films grants an annual sum of €300,000 to support the foreign distribution of Swiss films. At the final funding...  

28/01/2011 | Distribution | Switzerland

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