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256 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2006. Last article published on 11/07/2025.

Lionel Baier • Director

Interview: Lionel Baier • Director

After the East, the West

The filmmaker talks about the origins of Longwave and Swiss cinema(s) in general.  

11/09/2013

Olivier Père leaves Locarno for Arte France Cinéma

After directing three editions of the Swiss film festival, Olivier Père is now off to take over from Michel Reilhac at Arte France Cinéma  

27/08/2012 | Industry | France/Switzerland

Our Children

The fifth feature-length film of Belgian director Joachim Lafosse continues the director’s exploration of limits and fractured families.  

06/07/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Nicolas Wadimoff • Director

Bank secrecy and revolutionaries

The Genevan filmmaker tells Cineuropa about making Operation Libertad, his fake documentary selected for the Directors' Fortnight.  

11/05/2012

Operation Libertad

A daring film, selected for the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, traces the destiny of young Swiss revolutionaries in the late 1970s.  

11/05/2012 | Films | Reviews

Sister

After her debut in Cannes, Ursula Meier confirms her talent with a masterful social film starring young actors Kacey Mottet Klein and Léa Seydoux. Special Jury Award in Berlin.  

12/04/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Ursula Meier • Director

Swiss cinema at its peak

Cineuropa met the French-Swiss director awarded in Berlin for Sister 

22/03/2012

Sister: a young Sisyphus in the Swiss Alps

Ursula Meier’s second feature film Sister opened the Berlinale’s fifth day, with the image of a 12-year-old boy, bundled up and overloaded, who goes forth in life as if wearing ski boots, with...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Switzerland/France

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher • Director

"Great things can be born out of a crisis"

Analysis of Corpo Celeste, selected in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2011, the debut narrative feature by a young Italian director trained in documentary filmmaking.  

02/12/2011

Corpo Celeste

What lies behind the stranglehold of Catholicism in southern Italy. A realistic, sensitive and subtle debut feature unveiled at Cannes.  

02/12/2011 | Films | Reviews

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