International passport for four Swiss films
With support from the Federal Office for Culture, promotion agency Swiss Films backs the foreign distribution of Swiss productions and has an annual budget of €210,000 for this purpose.
The expert committee, which met in March, decided to back the German release of Denis Rabaglia’s Marcello Marcello [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and Wolfgang Panzer’s The Big Cat [+see also:
trailer
film profile]. Their German distributors, Senator Film and Central Film, have received €25,000 and €12,000 respectively.
Vadim Jendreyko’s
trailer
film profile] will be released in France and Austria thanks to €12,000 in funding for Nour Films and €5,000 for Stadtkino Wien.
Finally, €7,000 has been granted to Atlantis Entertainment for the Czech launch of Frédéric Mermoud’s Complices [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Frédéric Mermoud
film profile] (“Accomplices”).
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