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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Helen Mirren is set to star as celebrated author Patricia Highsmith in new movie Switzerland, whose plot will mirror one of the Tom Ripley novels for which the American novelist was most famous. Filmmaker and celebrated music video director Anton Corbijn, whose credits include…

French filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub, who was one half of the radical, arthouse filmmaking duo Straub-Huillet with his late wife Danièle Huillet, has died at the age of 89 in Switzerland. Straub, who hailed from the industrial northeastern French city of Metz, moved to Paris as a student in the…

Zsuzsi Bánkuti Appointed Head Of Locarno’s Open Doors Zsuzsi Bánkuti has been appointed as the new head of the Locarno Film Festival's project and talent incubator Open Doors. The 20-year industry initiative runs during the festival and supports filmmakers in regions where producing independent movies is particularly…

Switzerland has selected Michael Koch's Swiss-German language feature A Piece off Sky as its candidate for the best international film category of the 2023 Oscars. Set in a remote mountain village, the drama revolves around the against-the-odds-love story between a local woman and an outsider farmhand, who is struck…

UPDATED with video: This year's International Oscar entry for Switzerland, My Little Sister, follows a woman who has largely given up on her ambition to be a playwright and returns to Berlin to look after her twin brother, a famous actor with a terminal illness. It is directed by long-term collaborators and…

EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Eldorado, Markus Imhoof's documentary that has been chosen by Switzerland to represent the country in this year’s Foreign Language Oscar race. Imhoff was Oscar-nominated in 1981 for his drama The Boat Is Full — like Eldorado its focus was the plight of…

In the final two games of Round 16 of the World Cup, Sweden will face off against Switzerland while Colombia will go toe-to-toe (literally) against England. As we inch closer to the Fourth of July, many will be celebrating the holiday by watching these matches live Tuesday. The Sweden vs. Switzerland match takes place…

Getting its bid in early, Switzerland has selected The Divine Order to represent it in the Foreign Language Oscar race. Directed by Petra Volpe, the period drama about the fight for equal rights for women has sold more than 300,000 tickets at home. In April, it played the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the…

Nearly five years in the making, director Samir’s 2 1/2 hour-plus feature documentary Iraqi Odyssey puts his multi-generational family under the lens as they’ve relocated around the world. While many Iraqis have dreamed about building a modern society after their independence in the 1950s, they’ve encountered…

Based on a new report on the impact of unauthorized downloads, Switzerland seems to be saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The study, released by the Federal Department of Justice and Police, has concluded that piracy doesn't have a negative economic impact on the nation and contends that the current…

LOS ANGELES – District Attorney Steve Cooley said today that although Switzerland refused to return Roman Polanski to California for sentencing, extradition will be sought if the fugitive is arrested elsewhere. "I am deeply disappointed that the Swiss authorities denied the request to extradite Roman Polanski,"…

Swiss Reject U.S. Extradition Of Polanski UPDATE: Roman Polanski is on his way back to France. The AP is reporting from Bern, Switzerland, that the Swiss government declared Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski a free man today after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977…