Young voices, visual poetics and new money shape Locarno 2026
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The 2026 Locarno Film Festival paired coming-of-age stories with bold cinematic experimentation, while record industry attendance signalled growing private investment in independent film.
Changing everything, changing nothing: Locarno Festival keeps offbeat at 79
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The Locarno Film Festival opens its 79th edition preserving the event’s singular cinephile identity while navigating a changing film landscape.
Swiss drama unmasks the country’s invisible working poor
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The Swiss film ‘A Happy Family” premiered in Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and took the Best Actress award for Anna Schinz.
Swiss co-produced African masterpiece ‘Tilaï’ revived in Cannes
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A newly restored version of Idrissa Ouedraogo’s ‘Tilaï’, a milestone in Burkinabe cinema, was back this year in Cannes, where the film won the Grand Prix in 1990.
Hypnotic documentary lays bare Persian Gulf’s climate inequality
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Following lonely souls enduring the Gulf’s deadly temperatures, Jacqueline Zünd’s “Heat” depicts a dystopia we mistake for the future.
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The documentary “En Terrain Neutre” (Neutral Ground) puts the spotlight on Swiss neutrality in a comic road movie that comes as voters weigh enshrining the principle in the Constitution.
Friendship between Indian filmmaker and Swiss-based historian comes alive on film
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Filmmaker Amit Dutta uses the career of ethnographer and art historian Eberhard Fischer to explore tensions between ethnography, colonial legacies, and balanced views of India’s traditions.
A Swiss celebration of Sergei Loznitsa lays bare the battlefront of Ukrainian cinema
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Born in Belarus, raised in Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation. So why is he so controversial at home?
A queer filmmaker in Switzerland captures the divide on her visit home to China
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Yue Ran explores her complicated relationship with her mother – in the context of family tensions over Ran’s sexuality and China’s recent property crisis.
New Swiss foundation to catalogue Jean-Luc Godard’s film archive
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The Jean-Luc Godard Foundation aims to preserve and share the archive of the 2022-deceased director, who left behind works scattered worldwide and the thorny matter of film rights.
Adam Szymczyk brings an art world mindset to Swiss architecture
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The curator has taken over at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel – a “museum with no objects”, where ideas flow freely.
From graffiti on trains to the global art scene: Nicolas Party’s pastel revolution
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With exhibitions across three continents in 2026, the Swiss artist reflects on a visual language that bridges graffiti, pastels, art history and mural-making.
Jiajia Zhang’s art turns Shanghai into a mirror of modern urban life
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The Chinese-born, Zurich-based artist showed “Domestic News”, her first solo exhibition in the US, at the Swiss Institute in New York.
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Departing director Nina Zimmer reflects on her future in Vienna and her role in reshaping Switzerland’s approach to Nazi-looted art.
Flicker, form, future: how Swiss design learned to move
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A New York exhibition brings to life pioneering films from the Basel School of Design, linking analogue experimentation to today’s visual language.
Liste Art Fair: how Art Basel’s ‘younger sister’ became a launchpad for the next generation
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Born as a fringe alternative, Liste has evolved into a support system for young galleries worldwide, proving that not every successful art fair has to play by the market’s rules.
Bührle’s troubled art collection is squashed together in new Zurich show
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As the Swiss biggest art museum takes on the provenance research of many of the paintings, it has also opened a new exhibition – the third since the museum first displayed the artworks in 2021.
Uli Sigg wants to help Chinese people ‘view their own art.’ Simple, right?
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Over three decades, Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman and former diplomat, amassed thousands of contemporary Chinese works. Ai Weiwei calls him “my maker”.
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Echoes from the Indian Ocean: Swiss stories of the 2004 tsunami
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This Swiss docufiction tells the stories of people whose lives were devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Swiss true crimes: the child serial killer Werner Ferrari (part 2/2)
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This two-part documentary film looks back at the police investigation into the shocking story of Switzerland’s infamous child serial killer.
Swiss true crimes: the child serial killer Werner Ferrari (part 1/2)
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This two-part documentary film looks back at the police investigation into the shocking story of Switzerland’s infamous child serial killer.
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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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For decades the country’s exporters focused on adding value, but US tariffs and the strong franc are now hitting them harder.
Dying with dignity, living with freedom: Denis Côté on ‘Nobody’s Violence’
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In his latest film, premiered in Locarno, Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté follows a woman who delivers assisted death to strangers.
When a former Swiss foreign minister turns her hand to acting
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At a recent theatre event in Zurich, prominent cast members – with the help of a voting audience – took on the question of Switzerland’s global role.
Ana Vaz’s ‘Hanabi’ seeks lucidity in the aftermath of nuclear catastrophe
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The nuclear disaster at Fukushima is the focus of the Brazilian director’s film, which won a Special Jury Mention at the Locarno Film Festival.
Young voices, visual poetics and new money shape Locarno 2026
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The 2026 Locarno Film Festival paired coming-of-age stories with bold cinematic experimentation, while record industry attendance signalled growing private investment in independent film.
Brazil in Locarno: ‘The Riverbank’ sets Recife’s mangroves against the gospel of power
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Debut filmmakers Enock Carvalho and Matheus Farias turn a queer romance into a haunting exploration of faith, politics and Brazil’s cinematic margins.
From Lucerne to La Catedral glory: the global rise of a Swiss wrestling icon
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Claudio Castagnoli built a global career in a sport that barely registers in Switzerland. He tells Swissinfo how a trip to Mexico sparked his passion for the ring.
From film princess to animal queen: the many kingdoms of Isabella Rossellini
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She spoke to Swissinfo about growing up as the daughter of film royalty, her fascination for animal behaviour and ageism in the beauty industry.
Adam Szymczyk brings an art world mindset to Swiss architecture
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The curator has taken over at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel – a “museum with no objects”, where ideas flow freely.
Changing everything, changing nothing: Locarno Festival keeps offbeat at 79
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The Locarno Film Festival opens its 79th edition preserving the event’s singular cinephile identity while navigating a changing film landscape.
Swiss drama unmasks the country’s invisible working poor
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The Swiss film ‘A Happy Family” premiered in Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and took the Best Actress award for Anna Schinz.
From graffiti on trains to the global art scene: Nicolas Party’s pastel revolution
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With exhibitions across three continents in 2026, the Swiss artist reflects on a visual language that bridges graffiti, pastels, art history and mural-making.
Jiajia Zhang’s art turns Shanghai into a mirror of modern urban life
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The Chinese-born, Zurich-based artist showed “Domestic News”, her first solo exhibition in the US, at the Swiss Institute in New York.
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Departing director Nina Zimmer reflects on her future in Vienna and her role in reshaping Switzerland’s approach to Nazi-looted art.
Flicker, form, future: how Swiss design learned to move
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A New York exhibition brings to life pioneering films from the Basel School of Design, linking analogue experimentation to today’s visual language.
Liste Art Fair: how Art Basel’s ‘younger sister’ became a launchpad for the next generation
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Born as a fringe alternative, Liste has evolved into a support system for young galleries worldwide, proving that not every successful art fair has to play by the market’s rules.
Swiss co-produced African masterpiece ‘Tilaï’ revived in Cannes
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A newly restored version of Idrissa Ouedraogo’s ‘Tilaï’, a milestone in Burkinabe cinema, was back this year in Cannes, where the film won the Grand Prix in 1990.
Kurt Hirschfeld: late applause for a forgotten man
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Under Kurt Hirschfeld’s influence, the Schauspielhaus Zürich gained unprecedented political and artistic significance. A documentary now turns the spotlight on the Jewish theatre pioneer.
Zurich city theatre, a sanctuary and sign of resistance, turns 100
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During the Second World War, the theatre became one of the most important places of refuge for persecuted artists from German-speaking countries.
Bührle’s troubled art collection is squashed together in new Zurich show
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As the Swiss biggest art museum takes on the provenance research of many of the paintings, it has also opened a new exhibition – the third since the museum first displayed the artworks in 2021.
Blatten: ‘We lost everything, but not the joy of making music’
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A year after a landslide destroyed the Swiss village of Blatten, the Fafleralp Blatten music society embodies the determination to regain a semblance of normality and to look to the future with optimism.
Hypnotic documentary lays bare Persian Gulf’s climate inequality
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Following lonely souls enduring the Gulf’s deadly temperatures, Jacqueline Zünd’s “Heat” depicts a dystopia we mistake for the future.
Uli Sigg wants to help Chinese people ‘view their own art.’ Simple, right?
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Over three decades, Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman and former diplomat, amassed thousands of contemporary Chinese works. Ai Weiwei calls him “my maker”.
Switzerland reflects on challenges of coexistence at Venice Art Biennale
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At the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Switzerland has chosen to grapple with one of its founding myths: coexistence.
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The documentary “En Terrain Neutre” (Neutral Ground) puts the spotlight on Swiss neutrality in a comic road movie that comes as voters weigh enshrining the principle in the Constitution.
Friendship between Indian filmmaker and Swiss-based historian comes alive on film
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Filmmaker Amit Dutta uses the career of ethnographer and art historian Eberhard Fischer to explore tensions between ethnography, colonial legacies, and balanced views of India’s traditions.
A Swiss celebration of Sergei Loznitsa lays bare the battlefront of Ukrainian cinema
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Born in Belarus, raised in Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation. So why is he so controversial at home?
A queer filmmaker in Switzerland captures the divide on her visit home to China
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Yue Ran explores her complicated relationship with her mother – in the context of family tensions over Ran’s sexuality and China’s recent property crisis.
Human rights film festival mirrors uncertain future for International Geneva
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This year’s Geneva’s International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights reflected a crisis at home –the defunding of the UN.
Lausanne’s new MAF museum puts women artists centre stage
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Switzerland’s first Musée Artistes Femmes (MAF) opened in Lausanne on March 4, a museum dedicated exclusively to showcasing works by women.
