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Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker sets lo-fi love story in hi-tech future

Damien Hauser revamps the tenets of Afrofuturism - a genre that centers Black history and culture and incorporates science-fiction, technology, and futuristic elements - by mixing indie filmmaking (low budgets, non-professional actors) with AI tools to create grandiose sceneries.

This content was published on Sep 7, 2025 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.

Bern Film Awards for two documentaries and one feature film

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Bern Film Awards go to two documentaries and one feature

This content was published on Sep 2, 2025 This year's Bern Film Awards honour documentaries about inheritance, the island of Stromboli and a feature film about a single mother.

Golden Leopard for Japanese film "Tabi to Hibi" at Locarno

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Japanese film Tabi to Hibi wins Golden Leopard at Locarno

This content was published on Aug 17, 2025 The Japanese film Tabi to Hibi by director Sho Miyake won the Golden Leopard, the top prize in the international competition, on the final day of the Locarno Festival.

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Swiss director Simon Edelstein’s triumphant return to Locarno, 50 years on

This content was published on Aug 16, 2025 This year the Locarno Film Festival paid homage to the influential Swiss director Simon Edelstein.

Jackie Chan will receive a honour Pardo prize for his career at Locarno. The festival will screen some early Jackie Chan films, like "Project A" (1983), pictured above with Chan in the center.

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How the Locarno Film Festival brought Chinese films to the West

This content was published on Aug 7, 2025 Over the past 75 years, some pivotal Chinese films and filmmakers have had their first encounter with international critics at Locarno.

Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" (1960) is probably the most well-known film among the selection curated for Locarno's retrospective this year.

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Locarno Festival sheds light on an under-appreciated era of British cinema

This content was published on Aug 6, 2025 Films restored by the British and the Swiss film archives illuminate a period of national reconstruction and cultural transformation.

Radu Jude is back: the Romanian director's anarchic version of "Dracula" is in the main competition of Locarno this year.

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Locarno Festival counters the somber mood of the world with art and comedy

This content was published on Aug 5, 2025 The Swiss film festival kicks off with a program reflecting the current pulse of the planet - and offers a roster of comedies celebrating art.

Scene of "Rapt" (1934), the first Swiss avantgarde film, directed by exiled Estonian author Dimitri Kirsanoff.

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Love letters and technology help restore pivotal Swiss film from ashes

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 "Rapt", shot in 1934 by an Estonian who fled the Bolshevik Revolution, has won a new lease of life after meticulous restoration.

Fortune Mbitounou and Kevin Ossol, protagonists of the documentary "Kevine and Fortune"

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Young filmmakers target Africa and hit Switzerland’s post-colonial legacy

This content was published on May 11, 2025 This year, the Visions du Réel Film Festival's national competition featured three Swiss documentaries set in Africa.

Scene of "Heldin" (Late Shift), by Petra Volpe, 2025

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Berlin Film Festival: the heroic ‘Late Shift’ of a Swiss nurse

This content was published on Feb 24, 2025 Swiss filmmaker Petra Volpe's tense drama, Late Shift, about hospital life seen through the eyes of a dedicated nurse, had its Berlin Film Festival premiere last week.

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