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

Will You Marry Us? scoops Golden Lion at Hachenburg

The Grand Prize at the 3rd Hachenburg Film Festival (September 6-12) was awarded to Micha Lewinsky’s Swiss film Will You Marry Us?. This is the talented director-screenwriter’s second feature,...  

17/09/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Munich Film Museum pays homage to Klopfenstein

The Munich Film Museum is hosting an important retrospective on Swiss director Clemens Klopfenstein. From September 17-December 9, 18 films by this whimsical auteur with a caustic sense of humour...  

15/09/2009 | Events | Switzerland

Hugo In Africa honoured at Venice

At the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Swiss-Italian director Stefano Knuchel’s documentary Hugo In Africa was awarded the Golden Bisato for Best Director by the independent jury of film...  

14/09/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Rist spins a psychedelic tale with Pepperminta

Out in Swiss cinemas from September 10 and currently competing at Venice in the Horizons section, Pepperminta is the first film made for the big screen by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, known...  

09/09/2009 | Releases | Switzerland

Marie Leuenberger picks up award at Montreal

The Best Actress award at the 33rd World Film Festival (August 27 – September 7) has gone to Marie Leuenberger. In Will you marry us?, a comedy on marriage scripted by Micha Lewinsky and produced...  

08/09/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Animated film festival Fantoche set to draw crowds

Switzerland’s most important animated film showcase, the 7th Fantoche International Animated Film Festival is taking place in Baden from September 8-13. Previously biennial, with 25,000 filmgoers...  

07/09/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Locarno 2010 plan spotlight on Lubitsch

Olivier Père, who has taken over from Frédéric Maire as artistic director of the Locarno International Film Festival, has not been resting on his laurels. Only three days after he took up the...  

07/09/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

She, a Chinese picks up Golden Leopard at Locarno

The prize-winners at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival, which was held from August 5-15, for the last time under the artistic direction of Frédéric Maire, were announced on Saturday. In...  

17/08/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

Györik’s mysterious Valley a hit at Locarno

Eraldo Baldini’s “rural gothic” has arrived in Ticino: The Valley by Mihály Györik, presented at the Piazza Grande at Locarno (where, screening “at home” it nearly got a packed house of 8,000...  

12/08/2009 | Festivals | Italy/Switzerland/Hungary

Berta scoops Ticino Film Prize

At the Locarno Film Festival, the first Ticino Film Prize was awarded on August 11 to Swiss DoP Renato Berta. This prize, worth €20,000, honours the work of Ticino-born artists who have...  

11/08/2009 | Festivals | Switzerland

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