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Switzerland


1716 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 21/08/2025.

Make way for the Robber Girls

Swiss director Carla Lia Monti has finished shooting her first feature film Robber Girls (Räuberinnen), a very loose adaptation of the Friedrich Schiller play The Robbers, which in turn inspired...  

05/06/2008 | Production | Switzerland/Luxembourg

Two Swiss features at Brooklyn Festival

The 11th Brooklyn International Film Festival – which is being held in New York from May 30-June 8 – has selected two Swiss features to screen in competition: Fulvio Bernasconi’s Out of Bounds...  

30/05/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

Swiss filmmaker receives Student Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles have awarded the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Student Film to Reto Caffi for his film short Auf der Strecke, which was made at the...  

27/05/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Echoes of Home lauded in Italy

Winner of the Quartz for Best Documentary at the 2008 Swiss Film Awards, Stefan Schwietert’s Echoes of Home also won over the jury at the 56th Trento International Festival of Mountain,...  

06/05/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss director honoured in Schwerin

After Bettina Oberli (North Wind) in 2005, Stina Werenfels (Going Private) in 2006 and Oliver Rihs (Black Sheep) in 2007, once again a young Swiss filmmaker has won the German television...  

06/05/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss documentaries out in force at Munich

The international selection for the 23rd Dok.Fest Documentary Film Festival in Munich (May 1-7) includes seven Swiss films. Among the 13 competition titles are Shake The Devil Off by Peter Entell...  

30/04/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

Shake the Devil Off honoured at Nashville

Shake the Devil Off by Swiss director Peter Entell (produced by Show and Tell Film) has won the Best Documentary Award at the 39th Nashville Film Festival (April 17-24). The film recounts the...  

30/04/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Home to screen in Critics’ Week

After the selections of Cannes’ prestigious sections were unveiled, it became clear that Ursula Meier’s new film Home had not been selected for any of the line-ups. In the end, the International...  

29/04/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Switzerland

Swiss perspectives on Russia screened at Toronto

Swiss features Letter to Anna by Eric Bergkraut (P.S. Productions) and The Mother by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov (Les Films Hors-Champ) are screening in competition at the Hot Docs...  

17/04/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

Visions du Réel focuses on European documentaries

The Visions du Réel International Film Festival (Nyon, April 17-23) – a mecca for documentary film lovers – continues its exploration of the genre in all its forms across its numerous sections,...  

15/04/2008 | Festivals | Switzerland

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