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

Swiss directors band together for Bande à Part

Directors Ursula Meier (Home), Jean-Stéphane Bron (My Brother Is Getting Married), Frédéric Mermoud (Partners) and Lionel Baier (Another Man) have created the production company Bande à Part Films...  

14/12/2009 | Production | Switzerland

Brothers lauded at Amiens

Swiss director Igaal Niddam’s Brothers was awarded the City of Amiens Prize at the 29th Amiens International Film Festival (November 13-22). Produced by Swiss company Troubadour Films, this...  

26/11/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Liechti picks up Grand Prize at Montreal

At the 12th Montreal International Documentary Film Meetings (November 11-21), Swiss director Peter Liechti received the highest honour, the Camera-Stylo Grand Prize, for The Sound of Insects....  

25/11/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Meier’s Home presented in avant-premiere in New York

Selected as the Swiss title in the nomination race for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Swiss-French director Ursula Meier’s debut feature for the big screen, Home, is being released...  

23/11/2009 | Distribution | Switzerland

Wave of Swiss films hit France

From mid-November, several Swiss films are hitting screens in France. November 11 saw the release of Séverine Cornamusaz’s harsh film Animal Heart, adapted from Noëlle Revaz’s novel Rapport Aux...  

13/11/2009 | Distribution | Switzerland/France

Swiss docs honoured in Eastern Europe

Vadim Jendreyko’s documentary The Woman with the 5 Elephants won the DEFA Sponsoring Prize (worth €4,000) at Germany’s 52nd DOK Leipzig - International Documentary and Animated Film Festival...  

03/11/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Six Swiss films get export funding

With support from the Federal Office for Culture, film promotion agency Swiss Films has granted a total of €81,400 for the foreign distribution of six Swiss films. Sums totalling €25,000 and...  

02/11/2009 | Distribution | Switzerland

Cinema, TV and multimedia at Geneva

Since its creation in 1995, the Cinéma Tous Ecrans Festival in Geneva has been exploring audiovisual art in all its forms – from TV series to cinematic features and multimedia productions for the...  

30/10/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Mermoud’s Partners honoured in Chicago

At the 45th Chicago International Film Festival (October 8-22), Swiss director Frédéric Mermoud’s debut feature Partners won the Gold Plaque in the New Directors competition. Partners deals with...  

20/10/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

The Fortress honoured in Japan

Fernand Melgar’s subtle documentary The Fortress, which takes a critical look at the treatment of refugees in Switzerland, received an Award of Excellence at the 11th Yamagata International...  

16/10/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

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