Swiss Films in Locarno Wednesday August 9th

8.8.2006

The 59th International Filmfestival INFORMIERT: THE REPETITION OF THE FILM "FELTRINELLI" SET ASIDE 9.8.2006 CINECENTRO RIALTO 1 16.30

9h00 La Sala Cinéastes du Présent
LA TRADUCTRICE de Elena Hazanov
Ira, a young Russian, lives in Geneva and has never really got to know her motherland. She is taken on as a translator by the lawyer defending an alleged boss of the Russian mafia. The girl is soon fascinated by this powerful and educated man who seems to read her mind. The boss, if such he is, begins to manipulate her,
dragging her into a world both unknown and dangerous. When the girl realizes she has been manipulated, it may be too late, since danger often lurks where least expected. This is the second full-length feature from Geneva filmmaker Elena Hazanov, who was in the video competition at Locarno in 2001 with OTHELLO, LA TRAGEDIE ET LA FARCE and in the Leopards of Tomorrow sidebar the same year with INT. HOTEL NUIT.

11h00 Kursaal Semaine de la Critique
DAS ERBE DER BERGLER - ALPINE SAGA de Erich Langjahr
(Hirtenreise ins dritte Jahrtausend)

11h00 La Sala Appellations Suisse
THE SHORT LIFE OF JOSÉ ANTONIO GUTIERREZ de Heidi Specogna
Raised on the streets of Guatemala, Gutierrez was one of 300'000 soldiers sent to the war in Iraq by the US Army in March 2003 and he was the first soldier to die for the Allied Forces, an American hero. Gutierrez had enlisted in the US Army because he was promised an American citizenship.

11h00 L'altra Sala Léopards de demain Compétition Suisse 2
BECKENRAND de Michael Koch
JULES-AIMÉ PÉCLARD, DISTILLATEUR D'ESPRIT DE CLOCHER de Grégoire Mayor (A table / A l'arrière)
COUPÉ COURT de Hugo Veludo
FEDERER ET MOI de Robin Hersch
NOUVEL ORDRE de Ausonio Tavares de Sousa, Gregory Bindschedler, Jean-Daniel Schneider
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER de Andrea Oki

11h00 Forum
Open Doors 2006: Connecting Cinema From South-East Asia.

14h30 Rialto 1 A propos du Cinéma
RIVIERA COCKTAIL de Heinz Bütler

18h30 Otello Ascona Compétition internationale
DAS FRÄULEIN de Andrea Staka
Following her debut at Locarno in 2002 in the Leopards of Tomorrow section, Andrea Staka returns with her first full-length fiction feature. With rare sensitivity, the film describes the complex situation of former Yugoslav citizens who have settled in Zurich, looking at both their everyday life in Switzerland and at the memory of a recent past, often tragic, often denied. In her film, Staka has produced a moving portrait of three generations of women, taking a searching look at people who live far from their homes, either because they were forced to leave them or because they no longer have a homeland.

18h30 La Sala Cinéastes du Présent
QUE VIVA MAURICIO DEMIERRE de Stéphane Goël
In 1979 in Nicaragua the dictatorship of the Somosa family was overthrown. Many European militants were enthusiastic about the revolution and rushed to support the movement. They included the Swiss Chantal and Maurice Demierre. In 1986, however, Maurice was brutally murdered in an ambush laid by counterrevolutionaries. Twenty years later, Chantal decides to return to Nicaragua to see again the places and the people with whom she shared years of struggle and solidarity, and to take part in a theater production based on those events. The film traces the experiences of a whole generation of militants who suddenly came to grips with the reality of the revolutionary struggle and the drama of a peasant populace who for more than a decade believed a fairer world was possible.
(Sur les traces des pharaons noirs, Le poison - Le crime de Maracon, Campagne perdue)

19h00 Palavideo Play Forward
ALIAS de Aldo Runfola (court-métrage)

21h30 Piazza Grande
QUALE AMORE de Maurizio Sciarra
Maurizio Sciarra, Golden Leopard winner in 2001 with ALLA RIVOLUZIONE SULLE DUE CAVALLI (OFF TO THE REVOLUTION IN A 2CV), is back in the Piazza Grande this year with his latest film, some scenes of which were shot in nearby Lugano. Freely adapted from Leo Tolstoy's novel The Kreutzer Sonata, the film recounts the events that drive a young man to kill his wife, a famous pianist who gave up her career for love. After serving part of his jail sentence in Switzerland, the man is traveling to the U.S. where he is to meet his children for the first time.

22h00 Rialto 1 Appellations Suisse
VITUS de Fredi M. Murer
Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: He has hearing like a bat, he plays the piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopaedias at the age of five. No wonder his parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him. They want Vitus to become a pianist. However, the little genius prefers to play in the workshop of his eccentric grandfather (Bruno Ganz). He dreams of flying and of a normal childhood. Finally, with one dramatic leap, Vitus takes control of his own life
(Vollmond, Höhenfeuer)

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