19/12/2008

Thanks to €82,000 in funding from the promotional agency Swiss Films and the Federal Office for Culture, audiences in different European countries, the US and Asia will next year be able to discover five Swiss narrative features and documentaries.

On January 13 , Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Christian Davi
interview: Fredi M. Murer
film profile] – which has already been released in numerous countries – will set out to conquer Greek audiences (Videorama), then Ursula Meier’s Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Thierry Spicher
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile] will hit Italian screens on January 30 (Teodora).

On February 13, Dominique de Rivaz’s Luftbusiness [+see also:
trailer
film profile] will hit theatres in Taiwan (AV-Jet Int.).

France will see the launch of Chrigu [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Jan Gassmann and Christian Ziörjen on March 4 (KMBO) and Lionel Baier’s Another Man [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lionel Baier
film profile] the same month (Epicentre). The latter film will also be released in Quebec (Axia Films) on March 13.

(Translated from French)