Swiss cinema at Montréal
Eight Swiss films and co-productions are showing at the 29th Montreal World Film Festival, running from the 26th August to the 5th September. Co-production between Austria, Luxembourg, UK, Germany and Switzerland (T&C Film, Zurich), Headsman (Le Bourreau) from Swiss director Simon Aeby is screened in international competition. In the First Films World Competition appear Fragile by Laurent Nègre (Bord Cadre Films, Genève), KussKuss by Sören Senn, winner of the Babelsberger Medienpreis at Potsdam, as well the Rumanian-Swiss co-production Ryna [+see also:
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film profile] by Ruxandra Zenide (Navarro Films and Pacific Film, Genève). And Terra Incognita by Peter Volkart (Reck Film, Zurich) participates in the international competition for short films.
The section Documentaries of the world presents Coca - La colombe de Tchétchénie by Eric Bergkraut and Brasileirinho by Finnish filmmaker Mika Kaurismäki, produced by Swiss Marco Forster, two films with world premieres at the Berlin Festival. Co-production between Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Switzerland (PCT Cinéma & Télévision, Martigny), Belhorizon from the Belgian director Ines Rabadan is selected in the section Focus on World Cinema.
(Translated from French)
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