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

Fredi M. Murer shoots Vitus

Fredi M. Murer the rare is back. Now 65 years old, the German-speaking Swiss filmmaker who filmed the masterpiece Höhenfeuer,Golden Leopard at the Locarno Festival in 1985, the anti-nuclear...  

22/04/2005 | Production | Switzerland

Swiss documentaries across the Atlantic

The documentary Coca – The Dove from Chechnya (Coca – Die Taube aus Tschetschenien) which premiered in Berlin (at the young directors’ Forum) and was shown recently (19th April) at the Swiss...  

21/04/2005 | Festivals | Switzerland

Montecinemaverità passes the buck to the fund ‘Visions South-East’

Last March, Jean Perret (director of the Festival ‘Visions du Réel), Martial Knaebel (director of the Fribourg Festival) and Walter Ruggle (director of the distribution company Trigon Film)...  

11/04/2005 | Institutions | Switzerland

Hurly-burly at the Federal Cultural Office

Since the 1st of April, the Swiss Federal Cultural Office (OFC) has a new director, Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, who was finally promoted after fifteen years as the director of the National Library. The...  

06/04/2005 | Institutions | Switzerland

Unity is Strength

Since the start of the new year, the three main organisations in charge of promoting Swiss cinema have been joined together in a single entity for a tree year test period. The Swiss Film Centre,...  

19/01/2004 | Promotion | Switzerland

Michael Koch: star in Berlin

The young actor will be representing Switzerland at the "Shooting Star 2004" event, promoted by EFP. After his early theatrical career, Koch has now moved into cinema, starring in Ready, Steady,...  

19/01/2004 | Actors | Switzerland

Swiss Docs in Helsinki

As a tribute to the great tradition of documentary making that Finland shares with Switzerland, the Helsinki Festival of documentary films, Doc Point, (January 15-18, 2004) is putting on a...  

19/12/2003 | Festivals | Switzerland

Nomination for Little Girl Blue

The film by the young director from Zurich, Anna Luif, called Little Girl Blue was released in Swiss German cinemas on November 13 and it has now been nominated as Best Film at the 2004 Swiss Film...  

18/12/2003 | Films | Switzerland

The Swiss Film Awards

The Soleure screenings, an event that features this year’s Swiss productions, will be the venue for the ceremony of the Swiss Film Awards, as has been the case since 1998. There are 15 films and 6...  

12/12/2003 | Nominations | Switzerland

Swiss documentaries in Germany

The push to distribute Swiss films has born fruit. The strong presence of Swiss documentaries in Germany shows the success of the support system for foreign distribution introduced in 2003 by the...  

09/12/2003 | Distribution | Switzerland

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