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1682 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 13/06/2025.

Strong presence for Swiss cinema at Locarno

This year, the largest Swiss cinema event highlights national production, which is represented in every section of the 58e Locarno International Film Festival (3 to 13 August). Though the...  

22/07/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Nicolas Bideau : the new Mr. Swiss Cinema

Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, director of The Federal Office for culture (OFC), named Nicolas Bideau head of the cinema section. He succeeds Marc Wehrlin, who became Deputy Director of the OFC in April,...  

20/07/2005 | Institutions | Switzerland

Nineteen German (co-)productions in Locarno

Germany is well represented this year in competition for the 59th Locarno Film Festival(3-13 August). Indeed, Three Degrees Colder, Florian Hoffmeister's debut feature, was selected. This film,...  

19/07/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Triumph in Germany

No-one is a prophet in his own land, as the proverb goes, but even more so in Switzerland, it seems. Add very modest state aid, its tiny market, broken up into three distinct languages, losing its...  

19/07/2005 | Prices | Switzerland

Jean-Stéphane Bron shoots a drama

Having made three feature documentaries – Connu de nos services, La bonne conduite and Le génie helvétique – Mais im Bundeshuus, a political thriller very well received in France (winning over the...  

18/07/2005 | Production | Switzerland

Locarno 2005 is on!

On the 12th of July, Irene Bignardi, artistic director of the upcoming Swiss festival, revealed the programme for the 58th Locarno International Film Festival (3-13 August). Amongst the features...  

13/07/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Who's next in Locarno?

The Italian journalist Irene Bignardi having announced her intention to leave the Locarno International Film Festival after the 2005 edition (3-13 August), everybody wants to know who will be the...  

11/07/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

The Locarno Summer Film School

The sixth Summer Film School, which will take place in Locarno from the 31st of July to the 6th of August, is entitled 'The eye, the hand, and the machine: representing work in documentary...  

30/06/2005 | Documentary | Switzerland

Neuchâtel is fantastically European

The 5th Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) is taking place from the 28th of June to the 3d of July. This year, this event, created in 2000 to defend an unprejudiced approach...  

28/06/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Bignardi's last festival

This year's Locarno Film Festival (3d-13th August) will be the last festival for its director Irene Bignardi. “I will go back to being a spectator,' said the journalist at a presentation held...  

21/06/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

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