Peter Luisi in competition in Chicago
For the first time in years, Switzerland will have a film screened in competition again at the Chicago International Film Festival, this time with Peter Luisi’s film “Boys Are Us,” which will celebrate its world premiere.
10.10.2012
Peter Luisi’s most recent fiction film “Boys Are Us” will celebrate its world premiere with a screening in competition at the 48th Chicago International Film Festival (October 11-25, 2012). With “Boys Are Us,” the Swiss-American director who studied in California, will present his work in which a teenage romance is told from an extraordinary narrative perspective.
Swiss filmmaking present in Chicago
Also present at the longest-running competitive festival in North America together with “Boys Are Us” are two coproductions: Ursula Meier’s “Sister” and Joachim Lafosse’s “À perdre la raison” (coproduction: Box Productions, Lausanne), both of which are up for an Academy Award nomination from Switzerland and Belgium, respectively. The two short animation film productions produced by Hélium Films Lausanne – “Monsieur l'assassin X” by Lynn Devillaz and Antonio Veiras as well as “Chambre 69” by Claude Barras – round off the strong Swiss presence in Chicago.
Zurich, October 10, 2012