In search of homegron talent and stories at the biggest documentary film festival Switzerland, Vision du reelThe choice will be spoiled in 2025. This year’s version, which runs on 4–13 April, includes 31 Swiss productions or co-constructions, including the “Blame” of Christian Freei, the initial film of the festival. Veteran Frei stands with a new crop of new talent in a feature debut such as Freondi, the first Swiss filmmaker, Agrostina D. Luciano and Leon Schit’s “The World Upside Down”, the first Swiss filmmaker to be nominated to the Oscar for “War Photography” in 2002.
This year, on healthy crop of Swiss production and co-production, Charlotte Ducos, advisor to documentary and marketing strategies in the country’s national agency Swiss Films, says that it is “incredibly important for Swiss films in the program and the opening film of the festival is not only Swiss, but also a very required title by a famous filmmaker. Ducos also emphasizes how 43% Swiss films are currently co-producing, which is a will for the importance of collaborating with its European neighbors such as Italy, Germany and Austria. Last year, Switzerland Kan’s Marche du film was the country in focusing in another potential booster.
Freei praised the support available to filmmakers in his country, saying he is “deeply grateful to the subsidy system established in Switzerland”. It was thanks that the director raised enough to spend the necessary time on such an ambitious project, as Kovid -19 condemn his condemnation of misinformation. “I was able to do so without speculating on the box office or commercial interest,” he highlighted.
Financing-war, Switzerland provides various sources of funding at national and regional levels and from private sector. The main avenue film investment refund is Switzerland (PICS), which is mainly focused on Swiss-International Co-Upset and is administered by the Federal Office of Culture. If a project shoots for at least five days in the country, then 20-40% of the eligible film refunds PICS amid film production expenses.
“Sons of Ikaras” (courtesy of Vision du Rail)
With the subjects that are with AI’s relationship with human creativity to modern paternity and happiness, Swiss movies in this year’s vision do watches in the world of Du Rail yesterday, today and tomorrow to show national talents through classic journalism investigation, hybrid doco-fiction, and first-person stories. With such a title, Diversity A handful of movies have been selected to watch out, which you can find below:
“Dos,” dir. Christian free
FREI, who made history as the first Oscar – – – – -one to the Swiss filmmaker, returns to see Du Rayel as a controversial in 2002, with his disgusting investigation of photography of war: In 2002: a deepest diver in a wave of misunderstanding, which replaces the scientists fighting the heads and then the social form of the sir and then the Kovid -19 Pandan. Passes The initial film of the festival, “Blame”, conducts significant investigation into the relationship between politics, science and media. Rise and Shine handles the sale of the world.
“World upside down,” Dir. Agostina di luciano and leon schwitter
This Swiss-Argentinian co-produce tap in magical realism, mysticism and popular folklore, which is to mix the documentary and the story as it follows the residents of a small village located in the rural areas of Argentina. It is there that Omar, a village big and a farmer, sees a strange light in the sky. Curious, he goes out on a curious journey with his grandson, such as Roxen and Lily Buenos Aires create a holiday home for a family, where they make a search that will open a way for new forms of knowledge. Indox handles the sale of Films Festival.
“Sky wide” (courtesy of Vision du Rail)
“Compared to the sky,” Dir. Velerio jalongo
Veteran Italian filmmaker Jalongo, whose work has played widely on festivals such as Venice and Rome and who has collaborated with the choice of Brendon Gleison and Valeria Golino, returns to see Du Rayel with a film how AI interacts with human emotion and creativity. The “wider -by -sky” scientific laboratories and artists studios question the AI ​​and people working close to the intersection of neuria: Can AI positively shape the future of humanity?
“Colostrum,” Dir. Sayaka Mizuno
Mizuno’s 2016 mid-length documentary “Kawasaki Kirin” won the Prix Do Jury in Vision Do Rail for the most innovative Swiss film of all competitive classes. She returns to the festival with “Colostrum”, a look at the relationship between a farmer and his seasonal volunteer in Swiss Alps, a thirty woman in the city, who is emotional about animal welfare and ecology. The film is involved in the differences of characters to find their generalities, as well as pay tribute to traditional farming rhythm. The sale of strangers films handles the sale of the world.
“Dads,” Dir. David May
After the screening of his feature debut “Les Grands Traveers” in 2017 in Vision du Reel, May has returned to the festival with a close look at modern paternity. The film follows four fathers or fathers, as they talk around paternity through expectations, fear and taboo, such as questions about abandonment, upbringing daughters, and ending harmful masculine stereotypes.
“Sons of Ikaras,” Dir. Daniel Cammany
On his third feature documentary, Karmani shares his family story personally: the director is European, and his brother is Cuba, his father left West Germany in the 1970s and settled in Cuba after years to avoid the ghosts of fascism and finally years later. In “Sons of Ikaras”, the filmmaker left for North America in search of his family, eventually struggling to join his reserved father. Through the film, Kermény handles old wounds and finds a place to tell a visual story where the words would fail.
