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News September 2006
Roadmovie. Ein Kofferraum voller Schweizer Filme 2006-09-29 (German)
Finally adult and free? You wish! His father sees him as a future boss of the family-owned printing firm and his mother only wants the best for him. Sebastian can’t take it any more. On his eighteenth birthday he announces his departure to Geneva to work as an au pair in a family, looking after children and doing the household chores. To improve his French, of course! His father flips his lid, his mother is distraught. Only his sister Kathrin thinks her little brother is really cool...
2006-09-29 Permalink No comment
Ce film raconte les derniers jours de la compagnie d’aviation Swissair, le fameux grounding du 2 octobre 2001, ainsi que tout ce qui a conduit à cette catastrophe. Il rapporte aussi les répercussions de ces évènements sur le destin de Mario A. Corti, dernier PDG malchanceux de la prestigieuse compagnie, mais aussi sur celui de tous les sans-grade que Swissair a entraînés dans sa chute et qui ont ainsi tout perdu: emploi, maison et foi en la Suisse.
2006-09-29 Permalink No comment
DAS BOOT IST VOLL von Markus Imhoof am 1. Oktober auf SF1 2006-09-29 (German)
JEU – Bester Animationsfilm in Ottawa 2006-09-28 (German)
Cinéastes de Versoix au 29 septembre au 1er octobre 2006-09-28 (French)
No one knows the day or the hour. When illness strikes, accompanied by pain and physical decline, there we are, faced with death. The outlook on what remains of life appears dismal and full of anguish. How to spare oneself, and one’s closest family, slow agony? Switzerland is the only country in the world where associations, such as EXIT, quite legally provide suicide assistance to people at the end of their lives. Swiss Film Prize 2006: Best Documentary.
2006-09-27 Permalink No comment
A semi-fictional account of the experiences of PETER PAN author J. M. Barrie that led him to write the children's classic. In the movie, he befriends a young widow—and more importantly, her four sons—and their experiences together give him the ideas for a story about boys who do not want to grow up.
2006-09-26 Permalink No comment
Festival des französischen Films in Biel vom 27. September bis 1. Oktober 2006 2006-09-26 (German)
Romantic comedy with Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Devos and Denis Podalydes based on swiss-french prejudices. Thierry has not lived in Switzerland for many years, but now he has to return with his companion Sophie for his grandmother’s funeral. Unexpectedly, a large inheritance is offered to him on the condition that he appear capable, in the eyes of his uncles, of putting it to good use.
2006-09-25 Permalink No comment
Feature film prize for FRAGILE in Moncton (Canada)
At the 20th edition of the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, which ended on September 21st, the feature film FRAGILE received the La Vague TV5 prize for Best International Feature Film. The director of the film, Laurent Nègre, was in attendance at the festival and also presented his short film SCHENGLET to the audience preceding the main screening. (Swissfilms)
http://www.ficfa.com
2006-09-25 Permalink No comment
A BOUT DE SOUFFLE von Jean Luc Godard am 26. September auf BR3 2006-09-25 (German)
Switzerland closes the doors
A black day for Switzerland and for the swiss people. The politics of fear worked. Under the influence of the lies of a government that is taken aside by a right extremist party, the official Switzerland installs an institutional racism, a general ambiance of mistrust and an arsenal of repressive mesures against fugitives and people working and living in Switzerland and against people who help them. By this they close also the eyes to what is really happening in the world. And this will not stop. The right extremist parties have already found their next subject for their cultural crusade: the minarets. The progressive people now will have to resist, help where they can and prove that the official Switzerland is not the entire Switzerland.
2006-09-24 Permalink No comment
DEUX ETRANGERS EN VALAIS von Ursina Maurer und Miguel Brechet am 25. September in Zürich 2006-09-24 (German)
MONSTER'S BALL von Marc Forster am 25. September auf ORF 2 2006-09-24 (German)
GLAUSER HAT AUFGEHÖRT ZU SCHREIBEN von Peter Baumgartner als Premiere in Bern am 28.September 2006-09-24 (German)
AUX FRONTIERES DE LA NUIT de Nasser Bakhti en salle en Romandie 2006-09-23 (French)
SIAMO ITALIANI (THE ITALIANS) was 'the thunderbolt that rudely awakened Swiss cinema from the slumbers in which it had been since the end of the War'. Seiler's cameras descended from the lofty Alpine peaks into the streets of everyday life. Siamo Italiani marked an ideological and stylistic change in Swiss filmmaking and now cinema was to be seized upon as a critical tool and means of personal expression. Seiler revealed the Swiss as more than a nation that hid behind their banal defensiveness and hypocritical neutralism". 40 years later, Seiler visits the protagonists and makes a second film.
2006-09-22 Permalink No comment
FLAMMEN IM PARADIES von Markus Imhoof am 24. September auf SF1 2006-09-22 (German)
Abstimmung am 24. September 2006-09-21 (German)
Musicians Thomas Hösli and Ricardo Regidor aren’t exactly an ideal pairing. The former is still a punk, the latter a jazz pianist. God knows why they got together in order to produce German pop songs. A musical road movie of a very special kind, rich in melody and where every day power games are reflected by an ironic mirror image.
2006-09-21 Permalink No comment
LE FILMEUR de Alain Cavalier sur TSR2 le 22 septembre 2006-09-21 (French)
Solothurner Filmtage 2007 2006-09-20 (German)
VON WERRA von Werner Schweizer am 21. September auf SWR3 2006-09-20 (German)
In order to be able to do her work in a centre for the homeless, Antonia, a deaf nun, has to make the daily journey from her convent to the city by train. She encounters Mikas. A new exciting world opens up for Antonia because, like herself, Mikas is also deaf. These two people, so different from each other, are able to converse in their common language – sign language. Antonia and Mikas fall in love. However, what Antonia is not aware of is that Mikas is only pretending to be a circus artiste and has in fact come to Switzerland to make some ready cash as a pickpocket.
2006-09-19 Permalink No comment
BATTLES OF TROY de Krassimir Terziev (Suisse, Bulgarie) au Zinéma à Lausanne 2006-09-19 (French)
DER BERG von Markus Imhoof am 19. September auf SF1 2006-09-19 (German)
Trois court-métrages en salle à Vevey 2006-09-19 (French)
Le Montelly Film Festival cherche des court-métrages 2006-09-18 (French)
A love story set in the year 1803 in the Valais, which is under Napoleon’s rule at the time. Set against this historical background, an impossible and forbidden love between two farmers, the beautiful and timid Marthe and her cousin Théophile, who is the illegitimate result of his mother’s rape. Marthe is betrothed to marry his older brother but falls for Théophile. The couple are soon embroiled in a maelstrom of deceit, betrayal, jealousy and desperation. Their tumultuous love doomed in a century where severity rules and where the ruling landlords have control over the peasants’ lives.
2006-09-18 Permalink No comment
When Luc's father André suddenly pays him a visit for a few days, tensions run high. André's behaviour is increasingly unpredictable, ranging from confrontation to attempts at complicity. Will Milena, Luc's girlfriend, be able to ease the tension between the two men?
2006-09-18 Permalink No comment
An unusual and sprightly tale of modern Africa, Ashakara is a colorful blend of social, political and cultural elements wrapped up a thriller format. Set in Togo, West Africa, Ashakara is a modern African tale. An African doctor finds a curne to a deadly virus and decides to mass produce the drug at low cost in Africa. However, a pharmaceutical multinational does not want the doctor to succeed and sends an agent to Africa first to buy the drug then to destroy it. Mixing action, suspense, good humor, and a lucid depiction of the contemporary African continent, Ashakara entertains and educates all at once
2006-09-18 Permalink No comment
The DVD Installation THE VIRTUAL MANDALA of the Völkerkundemuseum in Zurich is a representation of the Book of the Dead.
2006-09-18 Permalink No comment
"But I can also just sit on a chair and dream that colors are floating by, and then the same board is purple, blue and green. This is related to the way I associate the idea of inner spaces with colour. The relationship of color and space is much more important to me than, for instance, it's connection with form or illustration. Obviously color and form are related but the meaning of form is secondary in this respect. Painting is always bound up with matter, and so, depending on your point of view, there's something bleak about it. (...)" (Adrian Schiess)
2006-09-17 Permalink No comment
Films au festival IMAGES à Vevey le lundi 18 septembre 2006-09-17 (French)
The filmic biography of the swiss avant-garde artist Heidi Bucher (1926-1993).
2006-09-16 Permalink No comment
Films au festival IMAGES à Vevey le dimanche 17 septembre 2006-09-16 (French)
Kurt Früh im Ortsmuseum Wiedikon 2006-09-15 (German)
MISSIONS CHEZ TITO + 60 ANS APRES de Daniel Künzi à Genève 2006-09-15 (French)
The diploma films 2005 of the swiss film school HGKZ Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich. 11 short films, with two films (FROHE OSTERN and STAILA CRUDANTA) nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2006, section best short film.
2006-09-15 Permalink No comment
The City of Tango seen with the rapid eye movement of a lifetime “tanguera”. Electronic music by Paris-based Replica Norma links tango nostalgia with the pace of the 21st century.
2006-09-15 Permalink No comment
Films au festival IMAGES à Vevey le samedi 16 septembre 2006-09-15 (French)
DAS FRÄULEIN von Andrea Staka au cinéma à partir du 20 septembre 2006-09-15 (French)
Films au festival IMAGES à Vevey le vendredi 15 septembre 2006-09-14 (French)
7 Lines for 5 Triangles 5 triangles is a documentary presentation of Felice Varini’s art installation at the Place de l’Odéon in Paris in 2003: a continuous line bent 7 times to form 5 triangles over the architectural space.
2006-09-14 Permalink No comment
Aigues-vertes is a village like most any other. Almost, that is. Its inhabitants are all mentally disabled. It would be simpler to build a wall between the two worlds; this film takes an opposing venture.
2006-09-13 Permalink No comment
LOVE MADE EASY von Peter Luisi ab 14. September im Kino 2006-09-13 (German)
Toronto honors Peter Mettler
At the 31st Toronto International Film Festival, taking place from September 7-16, 2006, a comprehensive showing of Canadian-Swiss director Peter Mettler’s work will be presented. In addition to the retrospective of nine of his films made between 1980 and 2002, a selection of photographs will be featured as well. On the occasion of this homage, the festival is releasing the book «Of this Place and Elsewhere: The films and Photography of Peter Mettler» by Jerry White, Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Alberta.
http://www.swissfilms.ch
2006-09-12 Permalink No comment
The painter Hans Witschi is irritating: With his unformed, blessed and blessing creatues, he is exploring the essence of the human being. The new paintings from Hans Witschi "Neue alte Menschen " (new old humand beings) are shown at the Gallery Stephan Witschi in Zurich from September 15th to October 28th.
2006-09-12 Permalink No comment
Festival IMAGES 06 du 14 au 17 septembre 2006-09-12 (French)
Two episodes of the famous criminal novels Maigret by Georges Simenon, directed by Claude Goretta and KJérôme Boivin.
2006-09-10 Permalink No comment
During the electoral campaogn of 1936, Léon Blum has been agressed by antisemite extremists. He wants to quit politics, but his wife Thérèse convinces him to stay to fight.
2006-09-10 Permalink No comment
OESCHENEN von Bernhard Giger am 10. September auf SF1 2006-09-09 (German)
QUE VIVA MAURICE DEMIERRE de Stéphane Goël en salle à partir du 9 septembre 2006-09-08 (French)
A group of actors making their way to Rome ends up going astray due to the fog, darkness, ice and their own feelings of guilt, becoming completely lost in the sibylline hills. It wouldn’t be possible to explain WERANGSTWOLF entirely even if you wanted to. That is its strength, presenting an open-ended event in an open space in a disjointed moment in time. The theatre texts attain a unique, imminent presence. Lies, freedom and the man in the machine; the alcoholic in A NIGHT'S SHELTER sees clearly, but is still imprisoned, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? reflects self-destruction, PROMETHEUS reminds us of the dawn of Man and is still utopian. In a liberating landscape, language tears time apart.
2006-09-06 Permalink No comment
CANNABIS - PROBIEREN GEHT ÜBER REGIEREN von Niklaus Hilber ab 7. September in den Kinos 2006-09-06 (German)
Filme von Jacqueline Veuve mit deutschen Untertiteln 2006-09-05 (German)
The western european films of Kieslowski: A box with LA DOUBLE VIE DE VERONIQUE and the trilogy TROIS COULEURS BLEU / BLANC / ROUGE (THREE COLORS BLUE / WHITE / RED).
2006-09-05 Permalink No comment
1934, Georges Mandel becomes minister of the post office in France. This is the moment for him to act. To act especially against the growing power of the nazis in Germany. He will pay with his life for his convictions. The film is an adaption of a novel by the presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy.
2006-09-04 Permalink No comment
After the successful film of Men Lareida we present a contemporary film about Jo Siffert. Jo Siffert war one of the only swiss to be internationally competitive in the automobile sport. This film was directed by Hugo Corpataux between 1969 and 1971.
2006-09-04 Permalink No comment
ZUM ABSCHIED MOZART von Christian Labhard im Kino 2006-09-04 (German)
Yves Yersin dreht einen Dokumentarfilm in einer Bergschule - Polemik 2006-09-03 (German)
Kulturschaffende sagen Nein zum Asylgesetz 2006-09-03 (German)
The legendary film about the zurich youth movement of the 80s is a pamphlet and a document at the same time of a liberation of an entire generation. Street battles, naked demonstrations, punk music, living autonomy: The Zurich movement said good bye to the protestant zwinglian bourgeoisie and asked for life, room and money, subito! The movement opened a big space for creativity and changed Zurich in many ways. In the today multicultural and event-oriented city we cannot imagine how it was before.
2006-09-03 Permalink No comment
An inventor makes an invention that already exists. In the county of Zurich, a worker invents in 1916 a car that can drive on any surface. He does not know the existence of tanks. One of the first big roles of Bruno Ganz
2006-09-03 Permalink No comment
The film takes place in Switzerland at a time when New Economy reaches this small – once so secure and safe – country. Erwin Graf leads a middle class life in a middle class town. He has a wife and a daughter and a job like everyone else. Suddenly he is sacked after twenty years of working for the same company. Erwin is shattered and decides to keep his unemployment secret. He hopes to find a new job in a few days and in the meantime pretends to go off to work each morning. Bettina Oberli has shown her new film DIE HERBSTZEILOSEN with a lot of success on the Piazza Grande at the Filmfestival Locarno
2006-09-03 Permalink No comment
At the 11th Hiroshima International Animation Festival, which ended on August 28, 2006, two Swiss animated films received awards: TARTE AUX POMMES by Isabelle Favez took home the Special Prize, while JEU by Georges Schwizgebel won the Special International Jury Prize. Three Swiss films participated in the festival’s international competition, which counts as among the most important events worldwide. A Special Program with 90 (short) films was dedicated to animated filmmaking “made in Switzerland.” http://www.urban.ne.jp
2006-09-02 Permalink No comment
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