Alan Mattli has been writing consistently about cinema, in German and in English, both on his own blog FacingTheBitterTruth.com and for a variety of predominantly Swiss publications, such as Frame and Maximum Cinema. He is also writing his doctoral thesis in English Literature.
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Art, activism, and family legacy flow through a Swiss mountain pass
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A new documentary about British-Swiss artist Bryan Cyril Thurston makes a nuanced case for the power of art as a form of environmentalist activism.
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A new film about Ernst Schrämli, a Swiss soldier executed for treason during the Second World War, illustrates the shifting public consensus about Switzerland’s fraught wartime politics.
Alice Diop shares her views on the future of cinema on a grand tour of Switzerland
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The award-winning French filmmaker spoke to SWI swissinfo.ch about the need to pay attention to an overlooked past and a disenfranchised present.
The Swiss film harvest for 2024: taking stock of migration and the right to protest
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The 59th Solothurn Film Festival, a showcase of what's to come in 2024, highlighted immigration and protest. Will Switzerland heed the call?
‘Las Toreras’ grabs Spanish-Swiss tragedy by the horns
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Swiss artist Jackie Brutsche tells a story of art and reconciliation in a documentary about a suicide that tore a Spanish-Swiss family apart.
Documentary shows the concrete reality of Le Corbusier’s Indian utopia
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A new film about Chandigarh, the Indian city planned by star architect Le Corbusier, raises questions about cultural imperialism.
Radu Jude and the joys of making a cinema masterpiece
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Interview with Romanian director Radu Jude, whose film Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World won a Special Jury Prize in Locarno.
What chansonnier Mani Matter can (still) tell us about Switzerland
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Mani Matter, one of German-speaking Switzerland’s most popular musicians, died exactly 50 years ago. What’s behind his continuing popularity?
Swiss myths fall apart at the Zurich Film Festival
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From a portrait of ‘national painter’ Albert Anker to a fascist-hunting Heidi, the ZFF offers unconventional approaches to Swiss history.
Waiting as an act of resistance: six films by Nicolas Wadimoff
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A DAFilms online programme on Swiss filmmaker Nicolas Wadimoff opens new perspectives on Palestine, Swiss leftism, and the radicalism of patience.
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Can a new cinematic adaptation of Jeremias Gotthelf’s 1842 novella The Black Spider help it break through internationally?
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