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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.
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.
Art of the reel: new director of Cinémathèque Suisse talks film heritage
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Vinzenz Hediger lays out his mission: protect a world‑renowned archive, embrace forgotten formats, and bring Swiss film heritage to audiences across the country.
‘Enjoy Your Stay’ at the Berlinale: a tale of exploitation in Alpine ski resorts
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Undocumented Filipino migrant workers who slave away as cleaners in luxury Swiss ski resorts are given a voice in a new film created by a Swiss–Filipino duo.
Swiss filmmaking duo follow Kurt Cobain’s afterlife to cheers in Rotterdam
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Kim Allamand and Michael Karrer created an experimental film that also seduces a general audience. It premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival.
Swiss arts outlook for 2026: the perks of inequality
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From record inheritances to Gulf power plays, 2026 promises to be a year when money talks louder than ever in the cultural arena.
Swiss filmmakers take on virtual reality to draw viewers into ecstasy and exile
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Domenico Singha Pedroli and Patrick Muroni ask what cinema becomes when audiences no longer watch from a distance but step inside the story.
Neutrality under fire: the enduring power of Park Chan-wook’s DMZ thriller
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Busan Film Festival celebrates the Korean film with Swiss focus that raised legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook to cinema royalty.
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.
Fifty years of the Lausanne Collection de l’Art Brut: between raw and rose-tinted
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The Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne is turning 50 – and is marking the occasion with an exhibition, taking visitors back to the early days, when art created in psychiatric clinics went unseen for a long time.
When Swiss traditional customs offer up a mirror to the ridiculous
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French photographer Charles Fréger has produced images that reflect Swiss winter rites while posing questions about the present-day.
One size does not fit all: Zurich architects reevaluate Modernism’s legacy
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Le Corbusier never rests in peace: two professors from ETH Zurich discuss how to reframe the forgotten narratives and exclusions that lie beneath Modernist architecture.
Swiss arts outlook for 2026: the perks of inequality
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From record inheritances to Gulf power plays, 2026 promises to be a year when money talks louder than ever in the cultural arena.
Spiders, puppets and avatars explore Zurich’s digital ‘Museum of the Future’
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Visitors can plunge into a medieval battle, step into the world of a spider, and even engage with an uncanny avatar that mirrors their own identity.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: a ‘true German artist’ who found peace in Switzerland
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Nearly a century after a solo exhibition that Kirchner curated himself in Bern, the Swiss capital is revisiting that show – with some help from the German chancellor.
The extraordinary destiny of a former Swiss police officer who became an artist
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The astonishing journey of Philippe Jaccard, an ex-cop turned artist, whose rediscovered works are on display in Brussels.
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A critic survives the four-season journey to the premium art fair in Hong Kong, Basel, Paris and now Miami Beach. Here are his takeaways.
Swiss filmmakers take on virtual reality to draw viewers into ecstasy and exile
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Domenico Singha Pedroli and Patrick Muroni ask what cinema becomes when audiences no longer watch from a distance but step inside the story.
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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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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.
Opera takes the United Nations: a message from the Holocaust to a world in disarray
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The Emperor of Atlantis, an opera composed in a concentration camp in 1943, was re-staged in Geneva this month as one half of an ambitious two-part production.
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.
Fifty years of the Lausanne Collection de l’Art Brut: between raw and rose-tinted
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The Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne is turning 50 – and is marking the occasion with an exhibition, taking visitors back to the early days, when art created in psychiatric clinics went unseen for a long time.
Art of the reel: new director of Cinémathèque Suisse talks film heritage
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Vinzenz Hediger lays out his mission: protect a world‑renowned archive, embrace forgotten formats, and bring Swiss film heritage to audiences across the country.
When Swiss traditional customs offer up a mirror to the ridiculous
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French photographer Charles Fréger has produced images that reflect Swiss winter rites while posing questions about the present-day.
The Swiss chalet kit: a little-known success story of the Industrial Age
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Between 1850 and 1920, the Swiss chalet enjoyed its golden age, embraced first by aristocrats and later by the bourgeoisie.
‘Enjoy Your Stay’ at the Berlinale: a tale of exploitation in Alpine ski resorts
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Undocumented Filipino migrant workers who slave away as cleaners in luxury Swiss ski resorts are given a voice in a new film created by a Swiss–Filipino duo.
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Swiss palaeontologist Jacques Ayer has been appointed by the government of Benin as managing director of four new public museums that will showcase Beninese art, culture and history.
Swiss filmmaking duo follow Kurt Cobain’s afterlife to cheers in Rotterdam
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Kim Allamand and Michael Karrer created an experimental film that also seduces a general audience. It premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival.
One size does not fit all: Zurich architects reevaluate Modernism’s legacy
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Le Corbusier never rests in peace: two professors from ETH Zurich discuss how to reframe the forgotten narratives and exclusions that lie beneath Modernist architecture.
Swiss arts outlook for 2026: the perks of inequality
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From record inheritances to Gulf power plays, 2026 promises to be a year when money talks louder than ever in the cultural arena.
Spiders, puppets and avatars explore Zurich’s digital ‘Museum of the Future’
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Visitors can plunge into a medieval battle, step into the world of a spider, and even engage with an uncanny avatar that mirrors their own identity.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: a ‘true German artist’ who found peace in Switzerland
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Nearly a century after a solo exhibition that Kirchner curated himself in Bern, the Swiss capital is revisiting that show – with some help from the German chancellor.
The extraordinary destiny of a former Swiss police officer who became an artist
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The astonishing journey of Philippe Jaccard, an ex-cop turned artist, whose rediscovered works are on display in Brussels.
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A critic survives the four-season journey to the premium art fair in Hong Kong, Basel, Paris and now Miami Beach. Here are his takeaways.
Swiss filmmakers take on virtual reality to draw viewers into ecstasy and exile
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Domenico Singha Pedroli and Patrick Muroni ask what cinema becomes when audiences no longer watch from a distance but step inside the story.
Neutrality under fire: the enduring power of Park Chan-wook’s DMZ thriller
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Busan Film Festival celebrates the Korean film with Swiss focus that raised legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook to cinema royalty.
Works of Swiss artist Giacometti in Paris headed for new, grander museum
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The Giacometti Museum is set to open in 2028 on the Esplanade des Invalides in central Paris, a prestigious location for an artist who spent most of his life working in a modest studio.
Decolonising and listening: a Swiss curator discusses the São Paulo Biennial
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Anna Roberta Goetz talks to Swissinfo about the inclusion of voices from the Global South in an exhibition that challenges the racial elitism of the Brazilian art scene.
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The Swiss calendar is packed with bizarre and often alarming traditions. Is there room for Halloween? Yes, say delighted children and pumpkin-sellers.
Swiss Bosnians process trauma of war at Sarajevo Film Festival
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Two documentaries delve into a violent history, rejecting the silence over the Bosnian War maintained by those who fled the former Yugoslavia and sought refuge in Switzerland.
Recognising Emma Jung’s exploration of the unconscious
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As early as 1911, the psychoanalyst and artist Emma Jung feared that she would be overhshadowed by her famous husband. Over a century later, she is being recognised.
Swiss silence, wartime shame, and one girl’s fight against patriarchy
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“Silent Rebellion”, the debut film by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, confronts the ghosts of Swiss complicity and conformity during the Second World War.
Eurovision Members to Vote on Whether to Exclude Israel
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The EBU will host an extraordinary general meeting in early November at which member broadcasters will vote on Israeli participation in the next Eurovision Song Contest.
Zurich orchestra gives voice to composer who can’t leave Iran
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Mehdi Rajabian’s music is banned in his homeland. In Zurich, an orchestra led by Swiss conductor André Bellmont will play some of his songs for the first time.
Behind the cranes, Jean-Stéphane Bron exposes the architecture of inequality
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The Swiss filmmaker talks about “The Deal” and “Le Chantier”, two films about power, labour and architecture that premiered in Locarno this year.
Art condenses the universe into tangible reality in Beijing
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As Switzerland and China mark 75 years of diplomatic relations with a year of joint cultural and tourism events, Beijing is hosting an exhibition celebrating the meeting of science and art.
The Swiss woman who fled the Nazis and changed Brazilian photojournalism
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A pioneer of photojournalism, Hildegard Rosenthal’s work reveals a São Paulo in transformation – and a legacy that continues to inspire.
Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker sets lo-fi love story in hi-tech future
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Damien Hauser’s ‘Memory of Princess Mumbi’ awed audiences at the Venice Film Festival by exploring the ethical and creative tensions of using AI in cinema.
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