Appellations Suisse

Created eight years ago by the Swiss Film Centre, the Locarno Film Festival and the film industry, the Appellations Suisse section is now well-established and greatly appreciated by the public. Since 2003 it has been under the aegis of SWISS FILMS, the national film promotion agency.  Appellations Suisse  offers the audience – the international specialists and film lovers gathered in Locarno – the opportunity to discover Swiss films that have obvious international potential. These are films which have attracted attention at major international festivals over the last twelve months, or have had a theatrical release. For this reason they cannot be screened in the official competition.
Appellations Suisse contributes to the wider distribution  of Swiss films that have international potential and highlights the quality of our national production. At Locarno, the ten films selected for this section complement the numerous films screened as premières in the Festival’s other sections, demonstrating the growing potential of Swiss film production.

See the Appellations Suisse 2010 selection in the attached PDF.

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