Six films from Switzerland at Filmfest München
The Swiss highlights this year at the 28th Filmfest München are the documentary films “Cleveland Versus Wall Street” by Jean-Stéphane Bron and “Bödälä – Dance The Rhythm” by Gitta Gsell. The festival in the capital of Bavaria runs from June 25 to July 3, 2010.
23.06.2010
Urs Odermatt's fiction film "Mein Kampf", an Austrian-German-Swiss coproduction (Hugofilm, Zurich) will be screened in the New German Cinema programme at the festival in Munich. Two short animation films "Die Kinder im Mond" by Ursula Ulmi and "Pink Nanuq" by Jeanine Reutemann, presented in the festival's children's programme, round off the strong Swiss presence at the largest German film festival next to the Berlinale.
Jean-Stéphane Bron's "Cleveland Versus Wall Street", which premiered in "The Directors' Fortnight" section in Cannes, addresses the question of accountability in reference to the economic crisis triggered by subprime mortgage loans by depicting a staged trial in which the participants are real victims. The film "Bödälä" by Gitta Gsell is a cinematic rapprochement of traditional and modern forms of step dancing. It won the Audience Prize in Solothurn and has already been seen by more than 18,500 viewers in the German-speaking region of Switzerland.
Zurich, June 23, 2010