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1526 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 26/03/2024.

Lisa Gertsch • Director of Electric Fields

Interview: Lisa Gertsch • Director of Electric Fields

“I wanted to weave all these stories into one big cosmos through subtle connections”

The Swiss director discusses her Max Ophüls Prize-winning feature debut, an episodic and poetic movie shot in black and white  

05/02 | Max Ophüls Prize 2024

Sophia Bösch • Director of Milk Teeth

Interview: Sophia Bösch • Director of Milk Teeth

“When the imagined world becomes real, that is an absolutely magical moment for me”

The Swiss-Swedish director unpicks her intriguing coming-of-age drama that unfolds in a mystical forest setting  

05/02 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

Interview: Damien Hauser • Director of After the Long Rains

“My movies are better when I don’t have a lot of control”

The Swiss-Kenyan director unpicks his third feature, in which the characters have to be practical about their dreams  

02/02 | IFFR 2024 | Harbour

Review: Journey of Shadows

Review: Journey of Shadows

Multimedia artist and animator Yves Netzhammer brings to life a peculiar yet thought-provoking 3D-animated tale of humanity pared down to its core  

02/02 | IFFR 2024 | Tiger Competition

Review: After the Long Rains

Review: After the Long Rains

Damien Hauser, just 21 years young, presents his third feature to date, a vibrant coming-of-age tale on leaving and returning home  

31/01 | IFFR 2024 | Harbour

Review: Milk Teeth

Review: Milk Teeth

Sophia Bösch’s debut feature film transports us to a dreamlike and dystopic-flavoured universe inhabited by fearful characters who are fighting for survival  

30/01 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

The Mother of All Lies triumphs at Geneva’s Black Movie Festival

The Mother of All Lies triumphs at Geneva’s Black Movie Festival

The documentary by Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir won the Critics’ Prize, while a Special Mention went to the fiction film Toll by Brazil’s Carolina Markowicz  

30/01 | Festivals | Awards | Switzerland

Review: 8 Days in August

Review: 8 Days in August

Samuel Perriard’s second feature film homes in on a family wrestling with long-repressed internal tensions which explode during a holiday in southern Italy  

29/01 | Solothurn 2024

Petra Volpe begins principal photography for Heldin

Petra Volpe begins principal photography for Heldin

The Swiss director is shooting a drama set in a hospital, starring German actress Leonie Benesch  

29/01 | Production | Funding | Switzerland/Germany

The Hearing and My Swiss Army triumph at the Solothurn Film Festival

The Hearing and My Swiss Army triumph at the Solothurn Film Festival

Victors at the most recent edition of the gathering include movies by Lisa Gerig and Luka Popadić, and Basil Da Cunha’s short film 2720  

29/01 | Solothurn 2024 | Awards

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