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A queer filmmaker in Switzerland captures the divide on her visit home to China

Between Sichuan, Paris and Zurich: clashes of identity, family taboos and the housing crisis.

This content was published on Apr 19, 2026 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.

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New Swiss foundation to catalogue Jean-Luc Godard’s film archive

This content was published on Mar 22, 2026 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.

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Swiss cinema admissions fall to lowest level in half century

This content was published on Mar 16, 2026 Swiss cinema admissions hit a 50-year low in 2025, mainly due to fewer US films.

Vinzenz Hediger, the new director of the Swiss Film Archive, at the research and archiving centre in Penthaz, close to Lausanne. He took up his post last November.

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Art of the reel: new director of Cinémathèque Suisse talks film heritage

This content was published on Mar 14, 2026 Vinzenz Hediger lays out his mission: protect a world‑renowned archive, embrace forgotten formats, and bring Swiss film heritage to audiences across the country.

A drama set on the peaks of global capitalism: "Enjoy Your Stay" premiered at Berlin International Film Festival.

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‘Enjoy Your Stay’ at the Berlinale: a tale of exploitation in Alpine ski resorts

This content was published on Feb 28, 2026 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.

"First Days" picks up where "Last Days", Gus van Sant's 2005 film, ends: the after-death.

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Swiss filmmaking duo follow Kurt Cobain’s afterlife to cheers in Rotterdam

This content was published on Feb 21, 2026 Kim Allamand and Michael Karrer created an experimental film that also seduces a general audience. It premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival.

Edna Politi was the first Israeli who made a feature documentary about Palestinian refugees ("For the Palestinians", 1974). Later she focused on the music and composers of the 20th century.

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Solothurn honours Edna Politi, a filmmaker shaped by exile, memory and resistance

This content was published on Jan 23, 2026 Politi is the first non-Swiss to be chosen as guest of honour of the Solothurn Film Days.

Opening day of Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais last October: the French capital became the most exclusive venue of the world's leading art fair, but the money and the glitter are flowing to the Persian Gulf.

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Swiss arts outlook for 2026: the perks of inequality

This content was published on Jan 2, 2026 From record inheritances to Gulf power plays, 2026 promises to be a year when money talks louder than ever in the cultural arena.

Documenting Sri Lankan artifacts stored in Basel: it was just supposed to be a research for an art project that became a film that became a diplomatic conundrum.

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Sri Lankan artist challenges Swiss museums over looted heritage

This content was published on Nov 27, 2025 The documentary Elephants & Squirrels exposes Switzerland’s uneasy reckoning with its colonial entanglements.

Scene of "Rave", Patrick Muroni's VR film.

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Swiss filmmakers take on virtual reality to draw viewers into ecstasy and exile

This content was published on Nov 21, 2025 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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