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21 articles available in total starting from 08/09/2003. Last article published on 09/05/2019.

Wehrlin gets back to film matters

Nicolas Bideau, resigning head of the Film Section at the Federal Office for Culture (OFC), will leave his post in October. However, no call for applications has been launched yet to find a...  

23/07/2010 | Institutions | Switzerland

Swiss Cinémathèque turns 60

Paris’ Swiss Cultural Centre is hosting a special programme from December 10-14 to celebrate the anniversary of the Swiss Archives (which are among the largest in the world), but there are no...  

26/11/2008 | Institutions | Switzerland

Maire leaves Locarno Fest for Swiss Cinémathèque

Appointed in October 2007 to succeed Hervé Dumont, Vinzenz Hediger (39) has decided to step down as director of the Swiss Cinémathèque in Lausanne (see news). The official reason given is that the...  

06/06/2008 | Institutions | Switzerland

Swiss Cinémathèque gets new director

Swiss German teacher, professor, historian and film critic Vinzenz Hediger (38) will take over in August 2008 from Hervé Dumont as head of the Swiss Cinémathèque in Lausanne. He currently teaches...  

29/10/2007 | Institutions | Switzerland

An open-air studio

A film commission founded in 1999 and a member of the International Association of Film Commissioners (AFCI), Film Location Switzerland promotes Switzerland as a location for foreign films - a...  

21/06/2006 | Institutions | 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

Ruth Waldburger leaves the presidency of the GARP

Founded in 2001 to establish relationships between partners, the Authors, Directors and Producers Group (GARP) has been presided over until now by Ruth Waldburger (Vega Film), who notably produced...  

12/05/2005 | Institutions | Switzerland

New President for the ARF/FDS

Genevan filmmaker Romed Wyder replaces his Alemannic colleague Matthias von Gunten at the head of the Swiss Association of Screenwriters and Film Directors (ARF/FDS), while the vice-presidency was...  

25/04/2005 | Institutions | 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

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