Striking presence of Swiss documentary films in Montreal

Swiss film productions will be screened in all four main competition sections: Nicolas Wadimoff's "Aisheen (Still Alive In Gaza)" and Jean-Stéphane Bron's "Cleveland Versus Wall Street" will be presented in the Shooting From the Hip programme, which features contentious, informative, and involved films that raise awareness about socio-political issues. Vadim Jendreyko's "Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten" (The Woman With The 5 Elephants) will be screened in the Kino Pen section, which showcases remarkable, personal, intuitive and aesthetic works. Daring themes and unprecedented approaches characterise the DocTape section, in which Kaleo La Belle's film "Beyond This Place" will compete. Finally, the two films devoted to the dream of space travel - "Space Tourists" by Christian Frei and Richard Dindo's "The Marsdreamers" - will be screened in the EcoCamera section, which explores our environment from deep within the earth and to the ends of the universe in search of ecological and scientific causes.

More than a hundred films from all over the world will be screened at the RIDM in Montreal. The festival was founded in 1998 by Canadian cineastes to create a forum for documentary filmmaking to promote the emergence of new points of view and present unique perspectives. Several Swiss film productions have been honoured with awards at this festival: "Que sera?" by Dieter Fahrer won the Audience Prize in 2004; "Shake The Devil Off" by Peter Entell won the Editing Prize in 2007; and the Grand Prize went to "La Forteresse" (The Fortress) in 2008.

Zurich, November 9, 2010