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

1 Day wins at Montreal

On September 3, the jury of the Montreal World Film Festival awarded its Best Director Prize to Switzerland’s Jacob Berger for his third feature for cinema 1 Day. Screened as a world premiere at...  

05/09/2007 | Awards | Switzerland

Composer Peter Scherer wins award

The Fondation Suisa, Swiss Society for Author’s Rights of Musical Works, has awarded its Film Music Prize to Swiss composer Peter Scherer for the original score of the fantastic thriller Marmorera...  

31/08/2007 | Awards | Switzerland

Fribourg gets new artistic director

French film critic Edouard Waintrop has been appointed the new artistic director of the upcoming 22nd Fribourg International Film Festival (March 1-8, 2008). He will take over from Martial...  

30/08/2007 | Festivals | Switzerland

Swiss co-productions at Venice

Two minority co-productions and one animated short will be flying the Swiss flag from tomorrow at the 64th Venice Film Festival (August 29-September 8). International competition is hosting...  

28/08/2007 | Festivals | Switzerland

Three world premieres at Montreal

Six Swiss features and co-productions will screen at the 31st Montreal World Film Festival (August 23-September 3). The international competition section is hosting Jacob Berger’s 1 journée (Vega...  

22/08/2007 | Festivals | Switzerland

Brandauer and Koch to star in Swiss film

Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer (Mephisto) and Germany’s Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others) will star in the upcoming Swiss production Das Verhör des Harry Wind (“The Interrogation of Harry...  

21/08/2007 | Production | Switzerland

Television films more popular than features

A study by the Swiss Statistics Office (Office fédéral de la statistique) on the broadcasting of Swiss films on television has been published in German and French. According to this new research,...  

20/08/2007 | Television | Switzerland

Huppert to star in Home

Principal photography on Home, the feature debut by the young Swiss-French director, Ursula Meier, began on July 30 in the Bulgarian town of Skalitsa. Written by Antoine Jaccoud and Raphaëlle...  

17/08/2007 | Production | Switzerland

Japanese film wins Locarno Golden Leopard

The official jury of the 60th Locarno International Film Festival, presided over by Irène Jacob and whose members included Walter Carvalho, Saverio Costanzo, Jia Zhang-ke, Romuald Karmakar and...  

16/08/2007 | Festivals | Switzerland

60th Locarno Film Festival opens its doors

The 60th Locarno International Film Festival opens this evening with Vexille, a Japanese CG animation film by Fumihiko Sorin, which will be shown on a giant screen on the Piazza Grande. No less...  

01/08/2007 | Festivals | Switzerland

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