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

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

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.

Milagros Mummenthaler at the latest Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), in October.

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Milagros Mumenthaler: a filmmaker crossing currents between Switzerland and Argentina

This content was published on Nov 16, 2025 Milagros Mumenthaler's latest film heralds a triumphant return after a nine-year absence.

Formally, the two Koreas are still at war until today: a South Korean officer facing his North Korean counterpart in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between the two countries in a scene of "Joint Security Area".

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Neutrality under fire: the enduring power of Park Chan-wook’s DMZ thriller

This content was published on Nov 9, 2025 Busan Film Festival celebrates the Korean film with Swiss focus that raised legendary filmmaker Park Chan-wook to cinema royalty.

The filmmaker poses with the orchestra of the National Infantry Academy during the shooting of "Time to the Target", Mansky's latest film.

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Zurich honours Vitaly Mansky: documenting power, memory and the Russian Empire

This content was published on Nov 5, 2025 Zurich is showcasing a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Russian-Ukrainian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky.

Irvin Mujčić in The Boy from the River Drina

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Swiss Bosnians process trauma of war at Sarajevo Film Festival

This content was published on Oct 27, 2025 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.

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