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1534 articles available in total starting from 12/08/2002. Last article published on 25/04/2024.

Sister

After her debut in Cannes, Ursula Meier confirms her talent with a masterful social film starring young actors Kacey Mottet Klein and Léa Seydoux. Special Jury Award in Berlin.  

12/04/2012 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Ursula Meier • Director

Swiss cinema at its peak

Cineuropa met the French-Swiss director awarded in Berlin for Sister 

22/03/2012

Emotions and transition at Visions du Réel

Switzerland’s largest documentary film festival, an important event in Europe, will be held from April 20 to 27 in Nyon. Here is the programme so far.  

20/03/2012 | Festivals | Switzerland

A rain of Quartz on Swiss cinema

Despite an overwhelming presence of Germanic films among those nominated for the 2012 Quartz awards, it was Latin cinema that made its mark when the awards where announced on March 17.  

19/03/2012 | Awards | Switzerland

Night Train departing from Switzerland

Danish director Bille August is shooting his new film starring Jeremy Irons, Martina Gedeck and Bruno Ganz in Switzerland and Portugal - Night Train to Lisbon is based on the bestselling novel by...  

16/03/2012 | Production | Switzerland/Portugal/Germany

Miss Massacre

Michael Steiner is to direct a horrific comedy about a national beauty contest  

27/02/2012 | Production | Switzerland

Alemanic cinema sweeps Quartz nominations

Swiss German cinema largely dominates the nominations for Switzland's cinema awards to be handed out on March 17 in Lucerne  

27/02/2012 | Awards | Switzerland

Admissions in Switzerland remain stable

2011 was the year of sequels, with nine sequels out of the year’s Top 20 films  

23/02/2012 | Box Office | Switzerland

Max Hubacher to star in Bille August’s next film

The young Swiss comedian will star in Train de nuit pour Lisbonne (lit. Night Train for Lisbon), the next film by the Danish director of Goodbye Bafana  

23/02/2012 | Production | Switzerland

Sister: a young Sisyphus in the Swiss Alps

Ursula Meier’s second feature film Sister opened the Berlinale’s fifth day, with the image of a 12-year-old boy, bundled up and overloaded, who goes forth in life as if wearing ski boots, with...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Switzerland/France

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