“La petite chambre” and five further Swiss films in Palm Springs

The feature film “La petite chambre” (The small room), which Switzerland officially submitted as a candidate for a nomination for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, is among the 39 film productions from all over the world that will be presented in the Awards Buzz programme at the 22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival.

04.01.2011

The feature film “La petite chambre” (The small room), which Switzerland officially submitted as a candidate for a nomination for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, is among the 39 film productions from all over the world that will be presented in the Awards Buzz programme at the 22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival. The festival, held from January 6 to 17, 2011, barely two weeks before the nominations for the Academy Awards are announced, is considered an excellent showcase for drawing the Academy members’ attention to foreign films in the running for an Oscar nomination. Apart from the feature film debut by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, the director duo from the canton of Vaud, the Palm Springs Festival will also screen films by two other young Swiss directors: Katalin Gödrös’ family drama “Songs Of Love And Hate” and the German-Swiss coproduction “Satte Farben vor Schwarz” (Colours In The Dark) by Sophie Heldman.

In addition, three documentary film productions and coproductions will mark the particularly notable Swiss presence in Palm Springs this year: screened in the True Stories section will be the films "Nel giardino dei suoni" (In The Garden Of Sounds) by Nicola Bellucci, "David Wants To Fly" by David Sieveking - coproduced by Dschoint Ventschr, Zurich - and "Le quattro volte" by Michelangelo Frammartino - a coproduction by Ventura Film, Ticino.

Attending the festival in Palm Springs are the directors of "La petite chambre" (The little room) Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, together with Katalin Gödrös, who was born in Zurich and attended the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, and Nicola Bellucci, the Basel-based Italian director and cinematographer.

Zurich, January 4, 2011

 

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