Our culture coverage highlights fine arts and cinema, offering a Swiss perspective on internationally relevant themes and debates.
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American author turns Bern into a stage for murder mysteries
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Kim Hays talks about her crime series “Polizei Bern”, which explores Switzerland’s dark past and taboos creeping under the peaceful capital city.
Don’t think small: first Swiss Netflix series, ‘Winter Palace’ sets tone of what’s to come
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Streaming platform co-productions such as Winter Palace will become a regular feature in the future. What’s in it for the Swiss entertainment industry?
Poor, cold and rebellious: the Swiss Jura shows its rich imagination in films
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In its 60th edition, the Solothurn Film Festival highlighted films about the Jura region – a place of Swiss separatism, linguistic divides, economic hardship, and nostalgia.
From Dada to Concrete Art: when Zurich was a modernist battleground
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A new book about the pioneers of Concretism fills a gap in the history of the most internationally influential Swiss art movement of the 20th century.
Beyond Godard’s shadow: in search of the evasive Anne-Marie Miéville
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The Swiss filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville is perhaps best-known as Jean-Luc Godard’s partner in life and art. Her films are now gaining new attention at festivals.
Swiss film exposes xenophobia as weapon against the working class
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Filmmaker Samir’s new documentary about Italian immigrants is a tale of xenophobia, resilience, and a call to avoid past prejudices.
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Fabrice Aragno collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard in the last 20 years of his life. He tells SWI swissinfo.ch what it’s like to make films after Godard’s death.
Jean Tinguely’s whimsical contraptions return to Milan for centenary showcase
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A major exhibition in Milan opens the celebrations for the centenary of Jean Tinguely with 40 sculptures produced between the 1950s and 1990s by the pioneer of kinetic art.
The man from Shanghai: Marco Müller keeps sowing the future of cinema
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The former director of the Locarno Film Festival is fostering a new generation of Chinese filmmakers, who may soon turn China into the largest film industry in the world.
Art, activism, and family legacy flow through a Swiss mountain pass
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A new documentary about British-Swiss artist Bryan Cyril Thurston makes a nuanced case for the power of art as a form of environmentalist activism.
Unique Brazilian Modernism art exhibition takes over Swiss capital
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An unprecedented exhibition in Bern seeks to insert 20th century Brazilian art into the grand narrative of “global modernism”.
Don’t think small: first Swiss Netflix series, ‘Winter Palace’ sets tone of what’s to come
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Streaming platform co-productions such as Winter Palace will become a regular feature in the future. What’s in it for the Swiss entertainment industry?
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Swiss Film Selection
We offer a selection of Swiss films chosen from the Swiss streaming platform Play Suisse to our international audience. These films are subtitled in English and are productions or co-productions of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), to which SWI swissinfo.ch also belongs.
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Swiss true crimes: the Wohlen double parricide
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A documentary film about the dramatic double murder case involving the married couple Peter and Ursula Breitschmid, instigated by their adopted son.
Swiss true crimes: the car park murderer who shocked Switzerland
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A documentary film about Caroline H, a serial pyromaniac who violently murdered two women, and almost killed a third, in Switzerland in the 1990s.
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The story of a Geneva family with four kids who gave up everything to open a patisserie in Tokyo without knowing the industry or the language.
Rebels in the snow: a history of Swiss snowboarding
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A journey through 40 years of Swiss snowboarding culture, with the pioneers, punks and pop stars who triggered a revolution in winter sports.
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Rita Christen is exceptional. The first female president of the Swiss Mountain Guide Association is one of only 40 or so female guides in Switzerland.
Award-winning Swiss author and scholar Peter von Matt dies aged 87
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The Alemannic writer and former professor of German literature Peter von Matt died on Monday in Zurich at the age of 87, following a long illness.
American author turns Bern into a stage for murder mysteries
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Kim Hays talks about her crime series “Polizei Bern”, which explores Switzerland’s dark past and taboos creeping under the peaceful capital city.
In Switzerland more people are being referred to electrical therapies or psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Are there similar approaches where you live?
