Swiss productions and co-productions are on the rise, driven in part by federal and regional funders that offer attractive opportunities for domestic and international filmmakers.
Quickly recovering from the impact of the pandemic, the local film industry has gotten off to another strong year with local films and international co-productions.
Elie Grappe’s Swiss-Ukrainian-French title “Olga” premiered at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, while unspooling in Locarno were Lorenz Merz’s “Soul of a Beast” and Swiss-international co-productions like Stefan Jäger’s “Monte Verita” and Laurent Geslin’s nature documentary “Lynx.” Venice saw such Swiss co-productions as “Ariaferma,” by Italian helmer Leonardo Di Costanzo, and Bolivian director Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento.” And opening this year’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) was Michael Steiner’s Swiss-German Taliban thriller “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead.”
The upswing in Swiss cinema is due in no small part to Zurich as a film location,...
Quickly recovering from the impact of the pandemic, the local film industry has gotten off to another strong year with local films and international co-productions.
Elie Grappe’s Swiss-Ukrainian-French title “Olga” premiered at this year’s Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, while unspooling in Locarno were Lorenz Merz’s “Soul of a Beast” and Swiss-international co-productions like Stefan Jäger’s “Monte Verita” and Laurent Geslin’s nature documentary “Lynx.” Venice saw such Swiss co-productions as “Ariaferma,” by Italian helmer Leonardo Di Costanzo, and Bolivian director Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento.” And opening this year’s Zurich Film Festival (Zff) was Michael Steiner’s Swiss-German Taliban thriller “And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead.”
The upswing in Swiss cinema is due in no small part to Zurich as a film location,...
- 10/3/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films.
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
- 8/9/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films.
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
The release of six Swiss films including Locarno premiere Monte Verità is being supported by the country’s ‘Back to the Cinema’ campaign organised by the exhibitors’ trade association ProCinema with Chf 500,000 backing from the Federal Office of Culture (Bak).
The aim of the initiative has been to help raise the visibility of up to 10 Swiss films which are each likely to attract more than 10,000 admissions throughout Switzerland as the cinemas reopen this summer.
Swiss distributors were invited to apply for support of...
- 8/9/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The Playmaker Munich, formerly known as Arri Media Intl., has picked up Stefan Jäger’s “Monte Verità,” which world premieres in August in the Piazza Grande section of the Locarno Film Festival. The historical drama, written by Kornelija Naraks and based on true events, focuses on Europe’s first eco-community.
Set in 1906, “Monte Verità” is centered on a group of society dropouts — including the writer Hermann Hesse — who search for a paradise and find it in Ascona, Switzerland. As well as their clothes, the free-thinking radicals strive to shed the mental corsets that constrict their minds. A young mother, Hanna Leitner, is drawn to the commune to escape her middle-class life. Torn between feelings of guilt toward the family she left behind and her fascination with a life of self-determination, Hanna discovers a passion for photography, and finds her own true voice.
The cast includes Maresi Riegner (“Egon Schiele”), Max Hubacher...
Set in 1906, “Monte Verità” is centered on a group of society dropouts — including the writer Hermann Hesse — who search for a paradise and find it in Ascona, Switzerland. As well as their clothes, the free-thinking radicals strive to shed the mental corsets that constrict their minds. A young mother, Hanna Leitner, is drawn to the commune to escape her middle-class life. Torn between feelings of guilt toward the family she left behind and her fascination with a life of self-determination, Hanna discovers a passion for photography, and finds her own true voice.
The cast includes Maresi Riegner (“Egon Schiele”), Max Hubacher...
- 7/9/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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