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Festivals / Switzerland


271 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 09/01/2019.

Impressive prize-winners at Visions du Réel

Switzerland’s unmissable Visions du Réel International Documentary Film Festival closed yesterday in Nyon, honouring a selection of original and fascinating works. This year, the different...  

30/04/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Freiburg celebrates world cinema

From March 14-21, the 23rd Freiburg International Film Festival (FIFF) will present productions from all four corners of the world. Since taking over as artistic director last year, French critic...  

13/03/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Geneva puts spotlight on human rights

Sponsored by high-profile figures – including Robert Badinter, Amos Gitaï, Barbara Hendricks, William Hurt, Ken Loach and Jorge Semprun – the 7th International Film Festival and Forum on Human...  

04/03/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Hidden Heart to screen in Tehran

After screenings at the Seville, Kassel and Saint Petersburg Film Festivals, Hidden Heart (Dschoint Ventschr) is set to be presented at the 27th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran...  

30/01/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Diversity of Swiss production in spotlight at Solothurn

Vincent Pluss’ The Noise in My Head yesterday opened the 44th Solothurn Film Festival (January 19-25). The event will unveil the best of local production and host a retrospective of Swiss-Canadian...  

20/01/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

The Friend wins over San Francisco

Winner of the Swiss Film Prize 2008, Micha Lewinsky’s The Friend is to receive the Maurice Kanbar Award for Best First Feature at the 14th Berlin & Beyond Festival in San Francisco (January...  

12/01/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Festival success for Swiss films in 2008

With 52 films presented at major international festivals in 2008 (11 features, 12 documentaries and 29 shorts), Swiss film recaptured the good form of 2006 and scooped 136 awards worth a total of...  

08/01/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Vendôme pays homage to Ursula Meier

Swiss-French director Ursula Meier will be in the spotlight at the 17th Vendôme Film Festival (December 5-12), which is dedicating one of its five retrospectives to her. Works to be shown include...  

04/12/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

La forteresse scoops honours at Florence and Montreal

Fernand Melgar’s La Forteresse (“The Fortress”) has so far garnered almost 20,000 admissions in French-speaking Switzerland, where it was released in September. This amounts to a record...  

25/11/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

Far From the Villages vies for honours at Amsterdam

Swiss-French director Olivier Zuchuat’s Swiss documentary Far From the Villages is among the 17 titles selected to screen in the prestigious Joris Ivens Competition at the 21st Amsterdam...  

18/11/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

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