Family stories in Buenos Aires
The Doc Buenos Aires Film Festival will screen nine current Swiss film productions which deal with family stories.
16.10.2013
The 13th Documentary Film Festival in Buenos Aires (Doc Buenos Aires, October 17-26, 2013) will present nine current Swiss productions in a programme called “Perspectiva suiza.” The programme focuses on family stories and is comprised of the following films: “Hello Stranger” by Thomas Ammann; “Karma Shadub” by Ramòn Giger and Jan Gassmann; “La clé de la chambre à lessive” by Frédéric Florey and Floriane Devigne; “Ma mère s'appelle Forêt” by Rachel Noël; “Nwa-Mankamana” by Laurence Favre; and “Vaters Garten” by Peter Liechti. Furthermore, three films by Jean-Marie Straub are also on the festival programme: “Un conte de Michel de Montaigne”; “La madre”; and “Schakale und Arabe”. Straub’s films are regularly screened in Argentina. Film director Thomas Ammann and film producer Eugenia Mumenthaler (“La clé de la chambre à lessive”) will personally present their respective films to the festival audience in Buenos Aires.
Perspectiva suiza
The “Perspectiva suiza” programme in Buenos Aires is part of the collaboration between the Argentine festival and SWISS FILMS, the promotion agency. Film productions from Switzerland have been in the spotlight at this festival since 2010. Doc Buenos Aires is the most important platform for documentary films in Argentina and deliberately limits its selection to 40 films.
Zurich, October 16, 2013