Films include Samir’s Baghdad In My Shadow and Bettina Oberli’s The Wind Turns.
International co-productions garnered the lion’s share of the production support paid out by Switzerland’s new incentive scheme Film Investment Refund Switzerland (Pics) in its first year of operations.
Speaking during this week’s Locarno Festival (which runs 2 - 12 August), federal councilor Alain Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, revealed that 53% of the $6.2m (CHF6m) allocated in support between July 2016 and June 2017 had gone to nine international co-productions with Switzerland.
The co-productions supported included:
Bettina Oberli’s first French-language feature film The Wind Turns, produced by Rita Productions with France’s Silex Films and Belgium’s Versus Production (co-producer of Locarno Festival Piazza Grande film Lola Pater)Samir’s London-set Baghdad In My Shadow (pictured), produced by Dschoint Ventschr with Germany’s Coin Film and the UK’s Ipso Facto Productions - with Filmcoopi and Nfp handling...
International co-productions garnered the lion’s share of the production support paid out by Switzerland’s new incentive scheme Film Investment Refund Switzerland (Pics) in its first year of operations.
Speaking during this week’s Locarno Festival (which runs 2 - 12 August), federal councilor Alain Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, revealed that 53% of the $6.2m (CHF6m) allocated in support between July 2016 and June 2017 had gone to nine international co-productions with Switzerland.
The co-productions supported included:
Bettina Oberli’s first French-language feature film The Wind Turns, produced by Rita Productions with France’s Silex Films and Belgium’s Versus Production (co-producer of Locarno Festival Piazza Grande film Lola Pater)Samir’s London-set Baghdad In My Shadow (pictured), produced by Dschoint Ventschr with Germany’s Coin Film and the UK’s Ipso Facto Productions - with Filmcoopi and Nfp handling...
- 8/4/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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