2024-01-26 11:11:27
In addition to the Swiss co-production “Gloria!”, selected for the Golden Bear, six other Swiss films will be screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in different categories, Swiss Films announced on Friday. The festival, which lasts ten days, begins on February 15.
For “Gloria!”, the young Italian actress and singer Margherita Vicario stepped behind the camera. Ticino actress Jasmin Mattei is also part of the cast.
The film, set in a girls’ boarding school in Venice at the end of the 18th century, tells the story of Teresa, a young woman who challenges those around her by developing a new genre of music.
“Glory!” de Margherita Vicario. [Tempesta srl]
Opening of the Solothurn Days
In 2023, the Swiss feature film “Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste” and “Le grand chariot” were in the running for a Bear. Among the thirteen Swiss films and co-productions selected in all categories, Lausanne resident Jenna Hasse won a special mention in the Generation Kplus category for her first feature film, “L’amour du monde”.
For this 2024 edition, “Les paradis de Diane” by Genevan Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann, screened at the opening of the Solothurn Film Festival, was selected in the Panorama category. Immediately following the birth of her first child, Diane abandons her companion and newborn in a Zurich hospital to disappear in a Spanish city.
>> To see: a 7:30 p.m. topic dedicated to the film “Les paradises de Diane”
“Les paradises de Diane”, a feature film regarding motherhood co-directed by Carmen Jaquier from Geneva and Jan Gassmann from Zurich, opens the 59th Solothurn Film Festival / 7:30 p.m. / 2 min. / January 17, 2024
“Shikun”, a Swiss, Israeli and French co-production selected in the Berlinale Special category, is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros”. Franco-Swiss actress Irène Jacob stars in this film, which tells the story of the emergence of totalitarian thinking on the edge of the Beersheba desert in Israel.
A film screened at Sundance
Berliners will also be able to see “Reinas”, a Swiss-Peruvian-Spanish co-production, in the Generation Kplus selection. This film traces the journey of a girl and her mother who plan, in 1992, to leave Peru for the United States. This third feature film by director Klaudia Reynicke has just been screened at Sundance, the American independent film festival.
In “Reas”, former prisoners reenact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison in a musical comedy. This Argentinian-Swiss-German co-production will be screened as part of Forum.
Several international co-productions
In a documentary titled “Techqua Ikachi. My Country – My Life”, dating from 1989 and digitally restored this year, the elders of the village of Hotevilla in Arizona describe their non-violent resistance once morest the oppression of the American government. It will also be screened as part of Forum.
Finally, still in this same category, we can discover the Italian-Swiss documentary “Il Cassetto Segreto”: while the house of her journalist father is emptied, a director follows the traces of her past in her birthplace.
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