All Switzerland articles
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NewsMira Nair, festival favourites among Geneva 2026 lineup
The festival will open with Canadian filmmaker Leah Nelson’s animated debut Tangles
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Reviews‘A Happy Family’ review: A single mother struggles against an unforgiving system in unbalanced Swiss drama
Jan-Eric Mack’s feature debut features a strong performance from co-writer Anna Schinz
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NewsAI concerns, consolidation and embracing risk: six talking points from the Zurich Summit
Health of the pre-sales market, need for social media, and future of the Oscars all under discussion.
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News‘Love, After All’: first trailer for Andreas Dresen’s Zurich Film Festival drama
EXCLUSIVE: Dresen’s feature follows a couple who have been married for 40 years.
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NewsAnna Kendrick in Zurich on the challenge of acting angry in ‘Babies’
“I would ask to do three takes in a row where I’m angry,” said Kendrick in Zurich.
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News‘Tenzing’ star Tom Hiddleston yodels in Switzerland at Zurich opening
Hiddleston pays tribute to his wife, actress Zawe Ashton – “the sun rises and sets with her.”
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NewsAfrica’s Realness Institute selects four screenwriters for AuthenticA Series Lab
EXCLUSIVE: Participants hail from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Cameroon.
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NewsZurich film festival heads talk “tectonic shifts” in film and festival landscape
Christian Jungen and Reta Guetg on highlights of this year’s festival, which kicks off on September 24 with the European premiere of Everest drama Tenzing
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News‘Eurotrash’, ‘Blood Money’ world premieres, ‘Ink’, ‘Bunker’ join Zurich lineup
Festival adds 12 Gala titles including Jordan Firstman’s Cannes hit ‘Club Kid’.
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NewsZurich film festival unveils opening night film
Biopic recounts the story of Himalayan Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay.
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NewsSwitzerland enters Palestine doc ‘Who Is Still Alive’ as 2027 international feature Oscar submission
The film won the Cinema & Arts award in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori sidebar last year.
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NewsAndreas Dresen’s ‘Love, After All’, and Doris Dörrie’s ‘How Can I Help?’ to world premiere at Zurich 2026
The films by the German directors will screen as part of the Gala programme.
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NewsUganda, Somalia and Ghana projects share top prize at Locarno’s Open Doors
Locarno Pro’s co-production and talent development programme is currently focused on 42 countries in Africa.
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NewsLocarno film festival protest sees huge shroud unfurled with names of 60,000 killed in Gaza
Peaceful protest took place shortly before a sold-out Piazza Grande screening of Olivia Wilde’s ’The Invite’, which is being attended by over 8,000 people.
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FeaturesOlivia Wilde explains why she fought for cinema release over a streaming deal ‘bribe’ for ‘The Invite’
Speaking at Locarno Film Festival, Wilde said the industry has been mistaken in believing that comedies now only work on the small screen and not in cinemas.
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FeaturesLegendary producer Joni Sighvatsson on working with David Lynch: “He was very single-minded”
Sighvatsson was honoured at the Locarno Film Festival ahead of a Piazza Grande screening of Lynch’s 1990 Palme d’Or winner ’Wild At Heart’.
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NewsSwitzerland’s ‘Lex Netflix’ investments rose 25% in 2025
Broadcasters and streamers invested $24.6m (CHF19.9m) in local Swiss production.
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NewsLocarno launches cash rebate to attract film and TV productions
The fund will operate for an initial three-year period and has launched with an annual budget of $74,000 (CHF60,000).
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NewsLocarno pays tribute to Isabella Rossellini as festival kicks off with ‘The Green Eyes’ premiere
Artistic director Giona A Nazzaro led round of applause for two of his Locarno predecessors who died this year, Moritz de Hadeln and Lili Hinstin