Switzerland is about to take heart stage on the 2024 Cannes Movie Market, with the Alpine nation picked as this 12 months’s nation of honor on the Marché du Movie, which runs Could 14-22 alongside the Cannes Movie Pageant.
Nationwide movie promotion group Swiss Movies, along with the Swiss Federal Workplace of Tradition and Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR, will host a sequence of occasions highlighting Switzerland’s cinema tradition and the alternatives the nation provides for worldwide producers. Switzerland can even host the opening night time market celebration on Could 15 (fingers crossed they’re serving fondue).
Along with the Swiss productions and co-productions screening at this 12 months’s pageant — which embody Konstantin Bojanov’s The Shameless and Laetitia Dosch’s Who Let the Canine Chunk? in Un Sure Regard and Elena López Riera’s quick movie Las Novias Del Sur in Critics’ Week — Swiss-made productions shall be highlighted throughout the Marché’s 2024 program.
The Cannes Docs part will characteristic 4 documentaries-in-progress, and Goes to Cannes 5 fictional works-in-progress from Swiss skills. 5 up-and-coming Swiss producers will participate within the Producers Community this 12 months, two Swiss composers shall be a part of the 2024 Spot the Composer networking occasion, and the Swiss Arts Council, ProHelvetia, has picked 4 works by Swiss authors for the Marché’s Shoot the E book! pitching part for literary adaptation.
Audio system from the Locarno and Zurich Movie Festivals, the Cinémathèque Suisse, and ProHelvetia will take part within the Marché’s convention program.