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1715 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 18/08/2025.

Interview: Carlos Leal • Actor

A first surprise role

Hip-hop singer turned actor, Carlos Leal has just snapped up a Swiss Film Award – and a ticket to the Shooting Stars in Berlin – for his part in Snow White by Samir  

22/02/2006

Interview: Samir • Director & producer

Vilified rebellion

Encounter with a multi-faceted filmmaker, who is totally dedicated to the advent of a world that is more poetic and more just and who has created a piece of fiction that is both atypical and colourful  

22/02/2006

Snow White

With a beautiful fairytale of love, ballasted by hip-hop and cocaine, Samir surprises and challenges, in depicting the attraction of superficiality and the scorched earth of drug-taking  

22/02/2006 | Films | Reviews

Murer back among the big boys

Berlin Film Festival Director Dieter Kosslick personally paid tribute to Fredi M. Murer with a Bronze Bear on February 16, also in acknowledgment of the return of the great Swiss German filmmaker,...  

17/02/2006 | Berlinale 2006 | Switzerland

Good fortune smiles on Carlos Leal at Berlin

Shooting Stars, which closed on February 13 at the Berlin Film Festival, was particularly rewarding for Swiss actor Carlos Leal (see interview). Not only has he found agents in Italy (Officini...  

16/02/2006 | Berlinale 2006 | Switzerland

A record-breaking animated film

Boasting a €19.3m budget, animated film Max & Co (working title) by brothers Samuel and Frédéric Guillaumewill be the most expensive animated film ever produced in Switzerland, and is among the...  

10/02/2006 | Production | Switzerland

Fiction takes the baton

Although the seventh art from Switzerland is often represented by its documentaries, three fiction features are on the bill at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, which begins today....  

09/02/2006 | Berlinale 2006 | Switzerland

Admissions fall, but Swiss cinema climbs!

The receipts for tickets sold in Switzerland last year were 140 million euros against 163 million in 2004. A catastrophic drop of 14 %, which the Swiss association of exhibitors and film...  

24/01/2006 | Box Office | Switzerland

Fragile opens and Gambit in competition at Sarrebruck

Garlanded with the Swiss Cinema Prize for Best Supporting role last Wednesday attributed to Marthe Keller, Fragile (Bord Cadre Films, Geneva) was chosen to kick-off the 27th Max Ophüls Prize at...  

23/01/2006 | Festivals | Switzerland

A denominated Eugen rewarded

Handed out last night at the Soleure Days, the Swiss Cinema awards rewarded My name is Eugen by Michael Steiner (Kontraproduktion) in the category Best fiction film . In choosing this best-seller...  

19/01/2006 | Award | Switzerland

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