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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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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