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1533 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 24/04/2024.

Switzerland will be the country of honour at next year’s Marché du Film in Cannes

Switzerland will be the country of honour at next year’s Marché du Film in Cannes

Following in the footsteps of India and Spain, Switzerland is set to be the guest country at the world’s biggest international film market  

07/12/2023 | Cannes 2024 | Marché du Film

Peter Luisi  • Director of Bon Schuur Ticino

Interview: Peter Luisi • Director of Bon Schuur Ticino

“I have realised that a lot of decisions that fall to the producer are extremely important for the creative process”

On the eve of the release of his newest opus, the director and producer discusses the process of making comedies on a reduced budget in Switzerland  

29/11/2023 | /Switzerland

Samuel Perriard • Director of 8 Days in August

Interview: Samuel Perriard • Director of 8 Days in August

“You’re together for 10-20 years, and then everything changes in just one or two days”

We met with the Swiss director at Lecce to talk about his film which was shot in Apulia and which revolves around a couple who call everything into question following a minor incident  

21/11/2023 | Lecce 2023

Review: White Flag

Review: White Flag

With his sophomore feature, Swiss-Mongolian filmmaker Batbayar Chogsom sheds light on the marginalisation of queerness in Mongolia  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: 2G

Review: 2G

Karim Sayad follows four former smugglers from Nigeria wrestling with a reality light on other options, and successfully captures the desperate poetry of their plight  

21/11/2023 | IDFA 2023

Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

Interview: Grazia Tricarico • Director of Body Odyssey

"We wanted to create the voice of the body"

The Italian director talked to us about what bodies are able to tell us, as well as her experience with the bodybuilding world and her artistic approach to it  

21/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Batbayar Chogsom  • Director of White Flag

Interview: Batbayar Chogsom • Director of White Flag

"In this film, nobody loses anything, but they do find something - their real selves"

The Mongolian director delves into his Tallinn Competition entry, which hinges on two young women trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads  

19/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | Competition

Review: Body Odyssey

Review: Body Odyssey

Grazia Tricarico’s debut is an overly ambitious tale about a forty-something bodybuilder obsessed with perfection  

17/11/2023 | Black Nights 2023 | First Feature Competition

Kilian Riedhof  • Director of Stella. A Life

Interview: Kilian Riedhof • Director of Stella. A Life

"We had to get viewers out of their comfort zone"

The director discusses his new film, inspired by the true story of a Jewish girl in Berlin who was ready to do anything to survive, including betraying her loved ones, during WWII  

13/11/2023 | Arras 2023

Series review: Les indociles

Series review: Les indociles

Directed by Delphine Lehericey, the series takes us to the heart of Jura, Switzerland’s most rebellious canton, whose disobedient and idealistic inhabitants aren’t afraid of anything  

09/11/2023 | Geneva 2023

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