All Switzerland articles – Page 5
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NewsParaguay’s ‘Encina’ is the big winner at Locarno’s Open Doors 2024
Paz Encina’s film is about a couple living in exile and waiting for news of their disappeared son.
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Reviews‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review
A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy
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FeaturesLocarno 2024 line-up guide: Piazza Grande and International Competition titles
The festival runs August 7-17.
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NewsNorwegian horror ‘Handling The Dead’ is awarded best film at Switzerland’s Neuchâtel festival
The fantasy film festival is a launchpad for key title into the Swiss market.
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NewsSpanish comedy horror ‘The Coffee Table’ brews up key deals for MPM Premium (exclusive)
The film stars David Pareja and Estefania de los Santos as a couple with a table that changes their lives.
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Reviews‘Savages’: Annecy Review
Claude Barras follows My Life As A Courgette with an eco-animation set in Borneo
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NewsLocarno to honour ‘My Life As A Courgette’ director Claude Barras
Swiss animator will present his latest film Sauvages at the festival.
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Reviews‘Dog On Trial’: Cannes Review
Laetitia Dosch directs and stars in this Swiss legal comedy with more bark than bite
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NewsIn pictures: Swiss Films and the European Film Academy Cannes panel
Leading European film strategists and creatives discussed how to build a successful campaign for the European Film Awards.
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FeaturesHow Switzerland is embracing its role as a vital international production partner
Switzerland is the country in focus at the Cannes market this year.
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News'The Gentlemen' director to make true crime action-comedy ‘The King Of Sting’ for Silver Reel
Adapted from 2010 novel ‘The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw.’
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NewsJessica Hausner to chair international competition jury of 2024 Locarno Film Festival
Leading Austrian filmmaker returns to Swiss festival having won its short film prize back in 1997.
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FeaturesSwiss filmmaker puts ChatGPT to the test in AI-scripted feature ‘The Last Screenwriter’
Made as an experiment, director Peter Luisi says the not-for-profit feature reveals how “scarily good” AI can be in filmmaking.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Anja Fröhner (Switzerland)
Fröhner is head of programme and guests at Zürich Film Festival.
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NewsSwiss doc ‘The Landscape And The Fury’ leads Visions du Réel 2024 winners
Further winners included Kamal Aljafari’s ‘A Fidai Film’ in Burning Lights.
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Reviews‘The Landscape And The Fury’: Visions du Reel Review
The fragility of life in the Bosnia and Herzegovina borderlands is challenged by the arrival of refugees in this immersive Visions du Reel winner
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NewsVisions du Réel 2024 presents industry prizes worth €50,000
The Iran-born French filmmaker Mehran Tamadon won €20,000 for ‘The Last Days Of The Hospital’.
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Features“My films are cut through with the need to resist the violence of our times,” Alice Diop tells Visions du Reel audience
“My aim is to find the right format for the film I want to make,” said the French filmmaker of documentaries and ‘Saint Omer’.
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Features12 documentary talents with first films at Visions du Réel
Screen profiles some of the up-and-coming directors with films at the Swiss documentary festival.
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FeaturesVisions du Reel’s Emilie Bujès on why the festival is a platform for new documentary talent
The Swiss film festival runs in Nyon from April 12-21.