Those who are looking for talents and local stories at the largest documentary festival in Switzerlandand Do de Rail visionsIt will be spoiled for selection in 2025. This year, which works from 4 to 13 April, includes 31 Swiss production or joint production, including the opening film of the festival, “Blame Christian Free”. Veteran Free, the first Swiss movie director ever standing to be nominated for the Academy Award in 2002 for “War Photographhy”, along with a set of new talents in its first appearance such as Agostina Di Luciano and Leon Schwitter entitled “The World Uppled DowN”.
In the health crop of Swiss products and joint production this year, Charlotte Docus, documentary strategies and marketing strategies at the Swiss National Agency films in the country, says, “It is very important that you have Swiss films throughout the program and have the opening movie of the festival not only Swiss but also by a very famous movie maker.” Ducos also emphasizes how 43 % of Swiss films are currently making common productions, and it is a testimony of the importance of cooperation with their European neighbors such as Italy, Germany and Austria. Last year, Switzerland was the country that was focused on in Marché Du in Cannes, which is another possible reinforcement.
Frei praised the support available for filmmakers in his country of origin, saying that he was “very grateful for the support system we created in Switzerland.” Thanks to this, the director raised enough to spend the necessary time in an ambitious project such as condemning the wrong information in Covid-19. “I managed to do this without having to predict the box office or commercial attention.”
Funding, Switzerland provides various sources of financing at the national, regional and private levels. The main street is the investment of films, the recovery of Swiss funds (PICS), which focuses mainly on the Swiss international joint production and is managed by the Federal Culture Office. PICS relaxes between 20 to 40 % of qualified film production expenses if the project is called at least five days in the country.
“ICARUS Sons” (with the permission of VISIONS du Réel)
Through the topics ranging from the relationship of artificial intelligence with human creativity to the problems and joys of modern paternity, Swiss films look at the visions of this year to yesterday’s world, today and tomorrow through classic press investigations, hybrid novel, and novels of the first person to present the best national talent. With such wealth of addresses, diverse She chose a handful of movies to search for, which you can find below:
“Blame”, Deir. Christian Free
Free, who made history as the first Swiss director nominated for an Academy Award with the investigation he achieved in the 2002 photography of the DOC war, returns to the visions de Rail with the presence of controversy in a proposal: a deep diving in a wave of misleading information that has transformed scientists who fight the spread of the descent and medical materials in the social metropolis. The opening film of the festival, “Blame”, presents a vital investigation into the relationship between politics, science and the media. Rise and Shine holds the world’s sales.
The world upside down, Deir. Agostina Di Luciano and Leon Schwitter
This Swiss joint production drains magical realism, mysticism and folklore to mix the documentary and imagination because it follows the inhabitants of a small village located in the Argentine countryside. There, Omar, who is a great village and farmer, is witnessing a strange light in the sky. Curiously, he begins a curiosity trip alongside his grandson, just like Roxanan and Lily is a vacation home in Boinens Aires, where they discover that opens a way to new forms of knowledge. Indox Films Handles Festival sales.
“Wide than heaven” (with the permission of the visions de Rail)
“Wide than heaven,” monastery. Valerio Gallongo
Veteran Italian director Galongo, who played his work widely in festivals such as Venice and Rome, who collaborated with the likes of Brendan Glyon and Valeria Golino, returns to visions de Rail with a movie looking at how AI interacts with human emotion and creativity. “The Sky” showcases scientific studios and artists with those who work near the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience to ask the question: Can AI form the future of humanity positively?
“Poor”, monastery. Siaka Mizono
“Kawasaki Keirin” in Mizuno 2016 won 2016 with a PRIX DU jury in Visions du Réel for the most innovative Swiss films of all competitive sections. She returns to the festival with “Laa”, which is a look at the relationship between farms in the Swiss Alps and his seasonal volunteer, a thirty woman from the city, who is passionate about the welfare of animals and ecummy. The film enlarges the characters’ differences to find its common denominators, as well as honoring the rhythms of traditional agriculture. Stranger sales treat global sales.
“Parents”, monastery. David Mai
After showing his first “Les Grandes Traversées” in VISIONS du Réel in 2017, Maye returned to the festival with a closer look at modern paternity. The film follows four fathers or fathers speaking through expectations, concerns and taboos about paternity, such as questions about giving up, raising girls, and perpetuating harmful masculine stereotypes.
“Icarus sons,” monastery. Daniel Kimini
In his third documentary, Kermény goes personally by sharing his family’s story: European director and his brother Kobe, where their father left West Germany in the seventies to escape fascist ghosts and finally settle in Cuba after years. In the movie “Sons of Icarus”, the director goes to North America in search of his family, and finally struggles to communicate with his reserved father. Through the film’s broker, Kermény finds space to repair old wounds and novel a visual story where words fail.
