How Swiss films performed worldwide in 2024
Published: Monday, Dec 23rd 2024, 11:20
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"Davos 1917" was the most expensive Swiss series to date and many Swiss co-productions attracted more than 100,000 people to the cinemas. This is what Switzerland's 2024 film and series year looked like.
The film "Le procès du chien" by French-Swiss director Laetitia Dosch has already recorded 130,000 admissions in France alone. The largely Swiss-produced courtroom comedy is the most internationally successful Swiss film of the past year, as the Swiss Films Foundation wrote in its annual review.
However, other co-productions in which Switzerland was also involved recorded even more admissions in 2024: "La chimère" by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (245,000), "Sidonie au Japon" by Élise Girard (241,000), "Gloria!" by young Italian actress and singer Margherita Vicario (215,000) and "Le théorème de Marguerite" by French director Anne Novion (134,000). The biopic and historical drama "Stella. A Life" about the Jewish woman Stella Goldschlag, who denounced her fellow sufferers in the Berlin underground during the Second World War (127,000).
Swiss Film described this as a good result to the Keystone-SDA news agency. In 2022 and 2023, only three co-productions per year would have recorded more than 100,000 admissions worldwide.
The path of "Reinas"
Klaudia Reynicke's film "Reinas", a Swiss-Peruvian-Spanish co-production, did not make it onto the shortlist for the Foreign Oscar. However, the film by the Swiss-Peruvian director, who lives in Lugano, was a success at the Berlinale, where it won the grand prize in the Generation Kplus competition. It also won the Audience Award at the Locarno Film Festival.
In addition to films, Switzerland has also been producing series this year, a fact that Swiss Films pointed out in its annual review. The Swiss-German series "Davos 17" is the most expensive Swiss production to date. It was sold to more than 20 countries. Swiss-American actress Dominique Devenport plays the lead role in this historical spy drama.
The fourth and final season of the German-Swiss crime comedy "Tschugger" was released as a feature-length film in Swiss cinemas in the fall and has so far attracted 90,000 viewers. It will be available on Netflix and Sky in Austria, Germany and Switzerland from 2025.
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Presence at festivals worldwide
Switzerland was this year's guest country in Cannes at the Marché du Film, a platform for the international film industry. The event takes place as part of the Cannes Film Festival. Four Swiss productions were presented there as world premieres in 2024, including the successful film "Le procès du chien".
The animated film "Sauvages" by Valais director Claude Barras, which was also shown in Cannes, also screened in competition at the Annecy International Festival of Animated Film (France) and was subsequently shown in Locarno and at the BFI London Film Festival.
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