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Co-Production Boost and Sturdy Funding System Fuel a Healthy Crop of Swiss Films at Visions du Réel

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Those looking for homegrown talent and stories at the largest documentary film festival in Switzerland, Visions du Réel, will be spoiled for choice in 2025. This year’s edition, which runs April 4-13, features a whopping 31 Swiss productions or co-productions, including the festival’s opening film, Christian Frei’s “Blame.” Veteran Frei, the first-ever Swiss filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar back in 2002 for “War Photography,” stands alongside a crop of new talent in feature debuts such as Agostina Di Luciano and Leon Schwitter’s “The World Upside Down.” On the healthy crop of Swiss productions and co-productions this year, Charlotte Ducos, documentary and marketing strategies consultant at the country’s national agency Swiss Films, says it is “incredibly important to have Swiss films across the program and to have the opening film of the festival not only be Swiss but also a very expected title by a renowned filmmaker.” Ducos also emphasizes how 43% of Swiss films are currently co-productions, a testament to the importance of collaborating with their European neighbors such as Italy, Germany and Austria.
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Willem Dafoe on His First Venice Biennale Theater Program, With Whirling Dervishes and a Homage to Avant-Garde Icon Richard Foreman (That He Will Perform Himself)
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Theatre is Body – Body is Poetry” is the title chosen by Willem Dafoe for his first edition as artistic director of the Venice Biennale‘s International Theatre Festival, which kicks off May 31 with the European premiere of the revival of the Wooster Group’s “Symphony of Rats.” The lineup assembled by Dafoe for the fest – which runs through June 15 – stems from his own experiences and influences, and ranges from a Whose Who of big experimental theatre names such as the Odin Teatret, Italy’s Romeo Castellucci, Germany’s Thomas Ostermeier, and Switzerland’s Milo Rau, to emerging talents like Afro-Belgian multidisciplinary artist Princess Bangura who will present two solo shows: “Oedipus Monologue” and “Great Apes of the West Coast.” Dafoe speaks to Variety from Venice about assembling his lineup and deciding to personally participate with a homage to late great New York experimental theater guru Richard Foreman, who died in January. What are some of the discoveries that are part of your program? One is Davide Iodice’s “Pinocchio – What is a Person,” which I saw in Naples.
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TV On The Radio announce new 2025 European and UK tour dates
TV On The Radio have announced a collection of new tour dates across Europe and the UK this summer – see the full list of dates below.The Tunde Adebimpe-led band have taken to social media to announce five new shows in Europe and the UK this summer in between their previously announced festival run and side shows.The new dates will see them play shows in Athens, Lausanne, Berlin, Vienna and Manchester – you will be able to get tickets here beginning this Friday (March 28) at 10am local time.The five newly announced shows will take place in June between a slew of festival performances, with their Manchester show being held at the Albert Hall on June 27, before playing Glastonbury on June 28.JUNE05 – Zurich, Switzerland – Unique Moments06 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Barcelona08 – Athens, Greece – Lycabettus Hill Theater (NEW)11 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Docks (NEW)13 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound Porto14 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret15 – Wicklow, Ireland – Beyond the Pale Festival17 – Berlin, Germany – Astra (NEW)20 – Katowice, Poland – Tauron Nowa Muzyka22 – Lido di Camaiore, Italy – La Prima Estate25 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer (NEW)27 – Manchester, England – Albert Hall (NEW)28 – Sommerset, England – GlastonburyAUGUST15 – London, England – Gunnersbury Park 17 – Wales, United Kingdom – Green Man FestivalAmong the previously announced gigs they’ll play are a set at Primavera Sound in Barcelona this summer, and a slot supporting Khruangbin at their huge outdoor gig at London’s Gunnersbury Park in August.The tour and announcement of new dates come after a pretty big 2024 for TV On The Radio, who last year made a comeback and went on to re-release their debut album ‘Desperate Youth, Blood

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