email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

FESTIVALS Switzerland

Swiss perspectives on Russia screened at Toronto

by 

Swiss features Letter to Anna [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Eric Bergkraut (P.S. Productions) and The Mother by Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov (Les Films Hors-Champ) are screening in competition at the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, whose 15th edition is being held in Toronto from April 17-27.

Dedicated to Russian journalist Anna Politovskaïa, who was murdered in Moscow in October 2006, Letter to Anna is currently on the programme at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon. The film also recently won the Vaclav Havel Prize, awarded by the writer and former president of the Czech Republic at the 10th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague (see news).

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

The Mother – which is a portrait of a Russian woman who lives in the country with her nine children – picked up the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) Television Award at the 50th Dok Leipzig Festival (see news) last November and was nominated for the Quartz for Best Documentary at the 2008 Swiss Film Awards.

Two minority co-productions are also on the Toronto Hot Docs line-up: Memory Books [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by German director Christa Graf (Snake Films) and Shadow of the Holy Book [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
by Finnish director Arto Halonen (Dschoint Ventschr).

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

(Translated from French)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy