Tribute to Peter Liechti and Swiss cineastes in La Rochelle
The 38th International Film Festival in La Rochelle (July 2-11, 2010) will offer its cinephile audience a closer look at Peter Liechti’s filmmaking and the opportunity to meet with the winner of the European Film Award - Prix Arte 2009.
01.07.2010
Jean-Louis Porchet's short film "Les yeux de Simone", which premiered on the Piazza Grande in Locarno in 2009, and the portrait film "Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense" by Benny Jaberg and Pascal Hofmann which premiered at the Berlinale, will also be presented at this film festival on the Atlantic coast which is completely devoted to auteur films. In conjunction with an homage to Kazakh director Sergei Dvortsevoy, the festival will screen the film "Tulpan", a coproduction by Cobra Film in Zurich with Germany. In addition, six animation films produced at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (HSLU) will be screened in a children's programme, including Jadwiga Kowalska's film "Tôt ou tard", which won the Quartz 2009.
With support from SWISS FILMS, the promotion agency, the festival will showcase eight films by Peter Liechti in La Rochelle. Apart from the film "The Sound Of Insects”, which was honoured with the European Film Award and already screened in La Rochelle last year, other films will highlight the broad artistic range of the Swiss filmmaker: the fiction film "Marthas Garten" (1997), the two documentary films "Hans im Glück" (2003) and "Signers Koffer" (1995), the music film "Kick That Habit" (1989), the experimental films "Théâtre de l'espérance" (1987) and "Senkrecht/Waagrecht" (1985), and the essay film "Tauwetter" (1987).
Zurich, July 1, 2010