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

Three Swiss nominees for German Critics’ Award

Having previously won a Golden Bear at Berlin and the German Cinematography Award for Fatih Akin’s Head-On, DoP Rainer Klausmann will vie for the German Critics’ Award with Soul Kitchen, by the...  

08/01/2010 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss film gets €1.1m in extra funding

In 2010, the Federal Office for Culture will have a budget of €30.8m for film funding, i.e. €1.1m more than in 2009. Unexpected in a financial crisis, this small increase, agreed to by Parliament,...  

22/12/2009 | Funding | Switzerland

First Federal Law for Culture

For the first time in its history, Switzerland has equipped itself with a law for the promotion of culture, but no funds to give it substance. And for a good reason: the financial commitment of...  

18/12/2009 | Legislation | Switzerland

Switzerland officially rejoins MEDIA Programme

The Federal Council has finally ratified the agreement cementing Switzerland’s membership of the MEDIA Programme, to which it was temporarily admitted in 2007 (see news). To convince European film...  

17/12/2009 | MEDIA Programme | Switzerland

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

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