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DISTRIBUTION Switzerland

Six Swiss docs set out for foreign lands

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With support from the Federal Office for Culture, promotion agency Swiss Films allocates an annual sum of €230,000 for the foreign distribution of Swiss films. At its latest funding allocation session, six Swiss documentaries and their six European distributors were selected.

Les Films du Losange was granted €25,000 for the French release of Jean-Stéphane Bron’s Cleveland Versus Wall Street [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Stéphane Bron
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, while Hevadis Films received €5,000 for French distribution of Dominique Margot’s Toumast – Guitars and Kalashnikovs.

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In Germany, €5,000 went to Rapid Eye Movies for the release of Stascha Bader’s Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae; €10,000 to Arsenal Filmverleih for Peter Guyer and Norbert Wiedmer’s Sounds and Silence; and €8,000 to Kool Filmdistribution for Christian Frei’s Space Tourists [+see also:
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film profile
]
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Meanwhile, Sabine Gisiger and Beat Häner’s Guru – Bhagwan, His Secretary and His Bodyguard will be released in Germany, where Pandora Film was granted €15,000, and in Austria, where Polyfilm received €5,500.

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