“Getting television and cinema to meet, a view on contemporary fiction with an international reach and
primarily valuing the artistic quality of the work.”
Leo Kaneman, artistic director of the Festival
ELSA ZYLBERSTEIN, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
This year the international jury will be presided by the French actress Elsa Zylberstein and composed with the
Belgian actress Déborah François (The Child, The Page Turner), the director Patrick Grandperret
(Meurtrières), the Swiss actor Jean-Luc Bideau, the Swiss scriptwriter Claude Muret (Les petites fugues), the
Franco-Iranian director Emily Atef (Molly’s Way, Special Jury Award at the 2006 Mar del Plata Film Festival) and
the German producer Max Wiedemann (Das Leben der Anderen, Public’s choice award at the 2006 Locarno
Film Festival).
THE INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL COMPETITION
The selection grows in diversity with fourteen feature films including works from Iran (Goodbye Life by Ensieh
Shah-Hosseini), Japan (Analife by Kenji Goda) or from the Netherlands (Diep by Simone Van Dusseldorp). The
American film Choking Man by Steve Barron will be screened in international premiere. Cinéma Tout Ecran will
present two Swiss features: Denis Rabaglia’s Don’t Panic (world premiere) for the opening of the Festival, a film
with Frédéric Diefenthal and Natacha Koutchoumov, who also plays in Lionel Baier’s new film, Comme des
voleurs – (A l’Est).
INTERNATIONAL SERIES, COLLECTIONS & LONG DRAMAS
After 24, The 4400, The L-Word and My Name is Earl that were presented in international or world premiere,
Cinéma Tout Ecran will this year play the international premiere of Shark, a series produced by 20th Century Fox,
starring James Woods and directed by Spike Lee; Sable Noir with Hélène de Fougerolles and Claude Perron; a
German series, Türkish für Anfänger; and this year’s landmark series Nos archives secrètes. The mini-series
selection includes Giovanni Falcone, a RAI production with a score by Ennio Morricone, Sartre, l’âge des
passions by Claude Goretta with Denis Podalydès and Anne Alvaro, René Levesque, about the prominent
politician who founded the Parti defending the independence of Quebec, and Answered by Fire, an Australian
mini-series with Isabelle Blais and David Wenham.
REGARDS D’AUJOURD’HUI
Taking over from the former Perspectives selection, this section comes as a confirmation of fiction’s role as a
major observer of reality. It will also be an opportunity to discover talented directors like Teresa Villaverde with
Transe (Italy/Russia/France/Portugal), starring Robinson Stévenin (Little Lili), Jo Sol with El Taxista Ful (Spain)
and Nia Dinata with Berbagi Suami (Indonesia).
THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS SELECTION
This year as usual the international competition will be doubled up by the must-see Short Films Nights at the
Rialto Cornavin multiplex. The selection includes Swiss films together with films coming from all over the world
(Taiwan, Australia, Spain, United States…) and featuring major actors like Patrick Chesnais and Christine
Boisson. Off the competition a special program composed with the works of the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School
from Israel will be played.
SWISS SKILLS: SWISS FILMS 06
Under the patronage of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and SSR SRG - Idée suisse
Cinéma Tout Ecran will honor the Swiss films with both the professionals and the public on Friday, November 3rd,
a day devoted to conferences and to Swiss audiovisual productions. The agenda includes a roundtable on the
theme Cinema – Television: what are the challenges? with Nicolas Bideau, Head of the Cinema Section at the
Federal Office for Culture, but also the Work in Progress, a unique forum intended at convincing international
producers to invest in promising Swiss film projects. Television and cinema Swiss films will be screened the whole
day through, and the screening of Lionel Baier’s Comme des voleurs – (A l’Est) will close the event.
SUMMER 2006 IN PALESTINE: REGARDS DE CINEASTES
Blank card to the Palestinian Filmaker’s Collective.
MAJOR FILM DIRECTORS ON SMALL SCREEN, TRIBUTE TO KEN LOACH
Cinema Tout Ecran is paying tribute to Ken Loach after the last years’ tributes to David Cronenberg, Atom
Egoyan, John Frankenheimer, Stephen Frears and Paul Verhoeven. In Ken Loach’s honour, some of the films
that he made for television and that were never showed outside the UK will be presented, and the CAC Voltaire
will take over after the Festival with a selection of his best cinema films.
THIS YEAR’S TRIBUTES
TV5 MONDE, the international and French speaking channel, will be honored this year. A selection of Frenchspeaking films will be presented, among them two Canadian productions: René Lévesque, a mini-series starring
Pascale Bussières (When Night is Falling) and Pure laine, a series directed by Jean Bourbonnais. For the first
time at the Festival TV5 organizes a writing contest intended at supporting a French-speaking author.
The French-speaking Swiss production company POINTPROD. The French-speaking communities are further
honored with three works presented by Pointprod: Nos archives secrètes (international premiere, a TSR, SF,
TSI co-production), Sartre, l’âge des passions by Claude Goretta (Jem Productions, a Pointprod co-production)
and Don’t Panic by Denis Rabaglia (world premiere).
THE SWISSPERFORM AWARD
Within the Swiss television films competition, this award will reward the best Swiss television work.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
The Maison des Arts du Grütli will be an exchange platform for the audiovisual professionals. This year Cinéma
Tout Ecran organizes two conferences on the following themes: Can the critic kill or save a film? organized by
the FIPRESCI, and The new forms of audiovisual content delivery. A Master Class with Amos Gitaï is also on
the agenda.
THE GENEVA SELECT MARKET
The international market for film and television is organized in collaboration with Swiss Films, and represents a
‘not to be missed’ appointment for the promotion of Swiss fiction.
VERTICALIMAGE
Departing from the until now inevitably horizontal frame, Verticalimage proposes a frame-based reflection on
images-films with a contest of “vertical” films played in a 9/16 format.
CINEMATOU-ENFANT FESTIVAL
In association with Cinéma Tout Ecran, this Festival proposes films, workshops, animations and discussions for
kids from 3 years. More than 20 international animation short films will be presented within the competition, and
play workshops on animated images will be organized. A jury of children will award the TSR prize to the best
animation film.
Cinématou–enfant, October 28 to Novembre 5, 2006, Les Grottes theatre
Artistic direction: Matilda Tavelli and Lani Weber, +41 22 734 11 84, info@cinematou.ch, www.cinematou.ch
CINEMA TOUT ECRAN is the first feature film festival in Switzerland who benefits from support by the European Union
Media Plus Programme. Such support from the Media Plus Programme strengthens Switzerland’s place on the
cinematographic map in Europe.
Official partners: Ville de Genève, Etat de Genève, Office Fédéral de la Culture, Loterie Romande, SRG SSR idée
suisse, TSR, Programme MEDIA , TV5, Arte, la Tribune de Genève, Manotel Hotel Group Geneva, Fonction: Cinéma,
Swissperform, Swissfilms, EuroInfo, Aéroport International de Genève
Media partners: France Culture, Ecran Total, Euronews, Léman Bleu, Radio Lac, Couleur 3
www.cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Press manager:
Adrian Stiefel, adrian@cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Press agents:
Pierre–Yves Walder, pywalder@cinema-tout.ecran.ch
Isabelle Vuong, isabelle.vuong@cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Sophie Eigenmann, sophie@cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Caroline Sutter, caroline@cinema-tout-ecran.ch
Maison des Arts du Grütli
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