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08/03/2022 - The festival is getting ready to shine a light on works not yet showcased or seen in Switzerland on the occasion of its 36th edition

08/03/2022 - The festival is getting ready to shine a light on works not yet showcased or seen in Switzerland on the occasion of its 36th edition

Critic Max Borg reflects on the international standing of the Swiss film scene, following Switzerlands guest appearance at the Festival Lumière.

In 2020, Switzerland’s SRG SSR invested nearly €30 million in the production of national films 31/05/2021 - By signing the Pacte de laudiovisuel, the TV channel conglomerate has committed to promoting independent Swiss films that would otherwise not be financed through the country’s relatively small market Eden für Jeden by Rolf Lyssy, which was one of the most successful productions completed with funding from the Pacte de laudiovisuel in 2020 Since 1996, the SRG SSR TV cha...

This content was published on February 21, 2021 - 12:45 February 21, 2021 - 12:45 SDA-Keystone/ac The movie is based on a book by Michelle Halbheer and chronicles a girls love for her drug-addicted mother in Zurich in 1995. The young girl invents a fictional world to escape her mothers addiction. It was made on a budget of CHF3.1 million and managed to draw around 330,000 cinema fans across the country despite Covid-19 restrictions.  External Content PLATZSPITZBABY Trailer from AscotElite on...

A still from Needle Park Baby.   Two films, set in two countries, explore in depth the ties between a single parent and child Fascinating are the parallels that one can sometimes draw between works by filmmakers from two different countries and cultural milieus. At the centre of both Uberto Pasolini’s Nowhere Special, set in Northern Ireland, and Pierre Monnard’s Needle Park Baby, set in Switzerland, is a single parent and the relationship with a young child, who both are set to lose. A...

film profile]) runs a small-scale trout farm in a secluded valley nestled in the Jura mountains (in the village of Seehof, to be specific). It’s exhausting work and the days feel never-ending. Judith is raising her daughter Milla on her own, a curious and creative child who’s full of life and who knows the nature around them better than anyone. Standing alongside the mother-daughter duo we find Gabriel, Judith’s devoted assistant who is looking to rebuild a life for himself following his...