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Italy / Switzerland


131 articles available in total starting from 20/07/2009. Last article published on 14/08/2025.

Review: Lubo

Review: Lubo

VENICE 2023: Franz Rogowski plays a Yenish nomad in Switzerland of 1939 in Giorgio Diritti’s film, which directs our attention towards theories advocating the elimination of difference  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Review: The Palace

Review: The Palace

VENICE 2023: The most dreaded film in Venice this year, by Roman Polanski, turns out to be very revealing, consciously or not  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: Essential Truths of the Lake

Review: Essential Truths of the Lake

The latest feature film by the brilliant Filipino director Lav Diaz depicts the torments of a lieutenant obsessed with a mysterious, unsolved case  

06/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Review: Aller Tage Abend

Review: Aller Tage Abend

Swiss director Felix Tissi’s film is a sardonic yet wholly compassionate reflection upon the themes of growing old, death, love and friendship  

13/07/2023 | Films | Reviews | Switzerland/Italy

The final clapperboard slams on Gloria! by Margherita Vicario

The final clapperboard slams on Gloria! by Margherita Vicario

Filming has concluded in Switzerland on the actress and singer's directorial feature debut, which tells the story of a group of rebellious musicians in Venice in the late 18th century  

22/06/2023 | Production | Funding | Italy/Switzerland

Review: Chutzpah – Something on Modesty

Review: Chutzpah – Something on Modesty

In an attempt to manage a personal crisis, Monica Stambrini places her own life at the centre of a documentary, reflecting upon herself and the confines of privacy  

19/06/2023 | Biografilm 2023

Review: La chimera

Review: La chimera

CANNES 2023: Alice Rohrwacher gets back to marginalised characters with a touch of Etruscan mystery, by way of a dowser-esque stranger who joins forces with a gang of grave robbers in 1980s Italy  

25/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Pure Unknown

Review: Pure Unknown

Valentina Cicogna and Mattia Colombo explore the importance of a dignified burial, a right for which forensic anthropologist Cristina Cattaneo continues to fight  

25/04/2023 | Visions du Réel 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Visions du Réel title Pure Unknown

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Visions du Réel title Pure Unknown

Valentina Cicogna and Mattia Colombo's documentary, bowing in the international competition, zooms in on an anatomic pathologist in her fight to secure every person’s right to identity  

24/04/2023 | Visions du Réel 2023

Review: Peripheric Love

Review: Peripheric Love

Swiss director Luc Walpoth invites us to relax into an authentic kind of tenderness which steers successfully clear of sentimentalism  

23/01/2023 | Solothurn 2023

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