Chavirer by Elie Grappe and Pauline Guéna receives an SSA grant.
THE CONSTRUCTION SITE in cinemas!
Bande à part Films is delighted to announce the theatrical release of THE CONSTRUCTION SITE, the new documentary by Jean-Stéphane Bron.
A film at the heart of an extraordinary construction site, where cinema, architecture and the world of work intersect.
Come and discover the film in the presence of the director:
– Wednesday, May 6 at 8 PM — Cinéma Bio, Carouge
– Thursday, May 7 at 6:30 PM — Rex, Fribourg
– Friday, May 8 at 6 PM — Cinésion, Sion
– Saturday, May 9 at 5:30 PM — Grain d’Sel
– Saturday, May 9 at 8 PM — Pathé Les Galeries, Lausanne
– Sunday, May 10 at 5 PM — Scala, La Chaux-de-Fonds
– Sunday, May 10 at 6:15 PM — Apollo, Neuchâtel
I think you should be here at the Semaine de la Critique!
Bande à part Films is delighted to announce the selection of I Think You Should Be Here, a short film co-directed by Anna-Marija Adomaitytė and Elie Grappe, for the 2026 Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. The film will be presented as part of the Special Screenings – Short Films.
Produced by Bande à part Films and co-produced with CIE A M A and Micro Climat, I Think You Should Be Here is a 12-minute Swiss-French short film.
Congratulations to Anna-Marija Adomaitytė, Elie Grappe, and to all the film’s artistic and technical teams!
Little by little, in cinemas across French-speaking Switzerland!
Bande à part Films is delighted to announce the theatrical release of Little by little by Matias Carlier!
Come and discover this wonderful feature-length documentary in the presence of the director:
Sunday, March 1 at 5:30 PM at Cinéma Royal, Sainte-Croix
Monday, March 2 at 6:30 PM at Cinéma Korso, Fribourg
Tuesday, March 3 at 8:00 PM at Cinéma CityClub, Pully
Thursday, March 5 at 6:30 PM at Cinéma Bio, Carouge–Geneva
Friday, March 6 at 7:00 PM at Cinéma Minimum, Neuchâtel
Tuesday, March 10 at 8:00 PM at Cinéma d’Oron
Wednesday, March 11 at 6:00 PM at Cinématographe, Tramelan
Thursday, March 12 at 8:00 PM at Cinéma Casino, Cossonay
Monday, March 23 at 8:30 PM at Cinéma Rex, Aubonne
Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00 PM at Cinéma Grain d’Sel, Bex
As well as regular screenings:
Throughout March at CityClub, Pully
From February 25 at the Lunchkino at Cinéma Korso, Fribourg
As part of the Planètes Inédites programme at Rex, Vevey
Bande à part Films at the Solothurn Film Festival 2026!
Bande à Part Films is proud to announce the selection of three feature films at the Solothurn Film Festival.
The construction site by Jean-Stéphane Bron, The Safe House by Lionel Baier, and Little by Little by Matias Carlier will be presented in the Panorama of Feature Films section.
This triple presence at the Solothurn Film Festival, a key event in Swiss cinema, highlights the richness and diversity of the perspectives offered by these filmmakers. We look forward to sharing these films with audiences and industry professionals at this year’s edition
Lionel Baier Film Retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québécoise!
Eight films by Lionel Baier are being showcased alongside The Safe House at Cinémania.
Thanks to the teams at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Swiss Films, and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Montreal for this great honor for Bande à Part Films!
THE DEAL ON THE PIAZZA GRANDE!
We are very proud to announce that Jean-Stéphane Bron’s series The Deal has been selected for the Official Selection of the Locarno Film Festival!
The first two episodes will be screened on the Piazza Grande as a Swiss premiere on August 11, 2025, at 9 p.m. You can also discover the four remaining episodes in their world premiere, in the Fuori Concorso section, on August 12, 2025.
Congratulations to Jean-Stéphane and to the Swiss, French, Luxembourgish and Belgian cast and crew!
LA LIGNE ON RTS!
LA LIGNE by Ursula Meier airs tonight, March 17, 2025, on RTS1 at 8:45 pm!
A great opportunity to discover—or rediscover—this film, which was presented in International Competition at the 2022 Berlinale.
THE SAFE HOUSE IS NOW IN SWISS AND FRENCH CINEMAS!
The Safe House by Lionel Baier will be released in French cinemas on March 19, 2025, and in Swiss cinemas on March 26, 2025!
Two Swiss preview screenings will take place in the presence of the director:
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March 13, 2025 at Cinéma Les Scala at 8:00 pm
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March 25, 2025 at Capitole, Lausanne at 8:30 pm (with the film team!)
Dog on Trial nominated for the Swiss Film Award!
Bande à part Films is proud to announce that Laetitia Dosch’s Dog on Trial has been nominated for the Swiss Film Award in the categories of Best Fiction Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Sound!
The Swiss Film Award ceremony will take place on March 21, 2025, in Geneva.
THE SAFE HOUSE by Lionel Baier at the Berlinale!
Bande à part Films is thrilled to announce that Lionel Baier’s film The Safe House has been selected for the International Competition at the Berlinale!
Congratulations to Lionel and to the Swiss, Luxembourgish, and French creative and technical teams!
The Line hits U.S. theaters tomorrow!
The Line will have its U.S. premiere at Metrograph on March 31, marking its U.S. release. On this occasion, Metrograph is also hosting a retrospective dedicated to Ursula Meier, titled Permeable Boundaries: The Films of Ursula Meier.
Ursula Meier’s “The Line” hits theaters January 11!
Discover the poster and trailer for THE LINE, the new film by Ursula Meier, starring Stéphanie Blanchoud, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Elli Spagnolo, India Hair, Benjamin Biolay, and Dali Benssalah.
Presented in the Official Competition at this year’s Berlinale, the film will be released in theaters on January 11, 2023!
Rebroadcast of “COMME DES VOLEURS (À L’EST)” by Lionel Baier on RTS2
“MA RUE DE L’ALE”, Jean-Stéphane Bron’s series on RTS1
Jean-Stéphane Bron paints a portrait of his Lausanne street. The final episode of the four-part series will air on Friday, June 24 at 8:05 PM on RTS1! The previous episodes are available to watch on replay.
“Why am I a filmmaker and not an ethnologist, journalist or psychologist? Perhaps because there is a little of all three professions in mine. What I like about documentary filmmaking is that things first and foremost pass through emotion: the story has to move me, and if it does, it is because, directly or indirectly, it concerns me. MA RUE DE L’ALE was a real challenge. How do you make a three-hour TV series about 165 metres?”
Read his interview in L’Illustré
MAY 15: VOTE YES ON THE FILM ACT!
What is the new Film Act?
The Film Act is a proposal put forward by the Swiss Federal Council that received a parliamentary majority last September. All parties from both the right and the left supported the proposal, with the exception of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP). The law provides that streaming platforms (Disney+, Netflix, Amazon), as well as foreign advertising windows (TF1, M6, C8), reinvest 4% of their gross revenues generated in Switzerland into Swiss production, as is already the case today for Swiss television channels. In addition, platforms will have to broadcast at least 30% European films, as is already the standard in European countries. The youth sections of the FDP, SVP and GLP have launched a referendum against the law.
Why is a new Film Act necessary?
The principle behind the new Film Act is simple: any company that broadcasts films and series, regardless of the technology it uses to do so, should invest in our film industry. Swiss television channels already successfully invest 4% of their revenues in Swiss films and series. This investment obligation must now be extended to foreign platforms and broadcasters that benefit from an advantage in our market compared with Swiss broadcasting companies.
This would, on the one hand, allow us to adapt our legislation to new broadcasters and modern audiovisual consumption habits. On the other hand, it would help restore the disadvantage faced by our industry compared with European countries — our main co-production partners — which already have similar investment obligations.
More information: www.loi-sur-le-cinema.ch/arguments
LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS (AU SUD), Lionel Baier’s new film at the Directors’ Fortnight!
We are delighted to announce that Lionel Baier’s new film LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS (AU SUD) will have its world premiere at the Directors’ Fortnight!
This is the third instalment of Lionel Baier’s caustic and heartfelt tetralogy about the construction of Europe, an exploration of the four cardinal points of Europe, which began in 2006 with Comme des voleurs (à l’est), followed in 2013 by Les Grandes Ondes (à l’ouest).
The leading roles are played by Isabelle Carré, Théodore Pellerin and Ursina Lardi, alongside Ivan Georgiev, Tom Villa and Daphne Scoccia.
The screenplay was written by Lionel Baier and Laurent Larivière, with the participation of Marina De Van and Julien Bouissoux.
LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS (AU SUD) is produced by Pauline Gygax and Max Karli for BANDITA FILMS and co-produced by Margaret Menegoz for Les Films du Losange.
In co-production with RTS Radio Télévision Suisse and BLUE. With the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Cinéforom and the Loterie Romande, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), Ministero della Cultura – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Regione Siciliana, Sicilia Film Commission, Suissimage, Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Swiss distribution: Pathé Films AG
French distribution and international sales: Les Films du Losange
“ANATOMY OF THE NIGHT” wins the Best Pitch Award at Visions du Réel!
Lionel Baier’s documentary project, produced by Agnieszka Ramu, has won the VdR-Pitching Award for Most Promising Pitch at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon!
“THE ISLAND OF THE 30 COFFINS” by Frédéric Mermoud airs on RTS1
The series “The Island of the 30 Coffins”, directed by Frédéric Mermoud, will air on RTS1 starting Friday, March 15 at 9:15 PM! Starring Virginie Ledoyen, Charles Berling, Stanley Weber, Jérémy Gillet and Dominique Pinon.
Christine leads a quiet life with her husband Raphaël until the day she receives footage of her childbirth in Sarek, the island where she grew up: her stillborn child was murdered. She decides to return to the island. As she tries to uncover the truth, a series of deaths spreads terror. Could her return have awakened the prophecy of the Thirty Coffins?
“FIVE STORIES ABOUT THE BRAIN” released in France!
FIVE STORIES ABOUT THE BRAIN by Jean-Stéphane Bron is released in France on March 16!
“Jean-Stéphane Bron takes on the major themes of BLADE RUNNER, A.I. and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. With its laboratories and machines, airlocks and electronic sounds, this documentary draws on the language of science fiction. Bron even stages a candlelit dinner against a backdrop of thunder. On screen, the entire sky becomes a brain crisscrossed with electrodes, and we suddenly feel as though we are watching a Hammer production. FIVE STORIES ABOUT THE BRAIN is a science-fiction film unlike any other, set… in the present day, 20,000 years and a few odd years after a man pressed his dirt-covered palm against the wall of a French cave. And that is where this story began.”