At the upcoming 58th Solothurn Film Festival, 6 films by Dschoint Ventschr will be shown and 3 of them may celebrate their premiere.

Premieres:

"Peripheric Love" by Luc Walpoth
SATURDAY, 21.01.2023, at 21:15, concert hall
TUESDAY, 24.01.2023, at 17:15, Riding Hall

"The Mies van der Rohes" by Sabine Gisiger
FRIDAY, 20.01.2023, at 20:30, Riding Hall
SUNDAY, 22.01.2023, at 12:15, Riding Hall

"I Giacometti" by Susanna Fanzun
THURSDAY, 19.01.2023, at 20:45, Riding Hall
SUNDAY, 22.01.2023, at 09:15, Landhaus

further screenings:

"ERICA JONG breaking the wall" by Kaspar Kasics
THURSDAY, 19.01.2023, at 14:15, Riding Hall
SATURDAY, 21.01.2023, at 09:15, Capitol

"Paolo's Happiness" by Thorsten Drössler & Manuel Schroeder
SATURDAY, 21.01.2023, at 15:45, Kino im Uferbau

"Strähl" by Manuel Flurin Hendry
SUNDAY, 22.01.2023, at 16:30, Kino im Uferbau

«Palaver, Palaver. A Swiss Autumn Chronicle 1989» by Alexander J. Seiler (1990) can now be seen via different channels:

- Streaming and download via filmo
- DVD box Alexander J. Seiler. Twelve films. A selection. With a workshop talk.
   The DVD box can be obtained via mail to Dschoint Ventschr (office@dvfilm.ch).

About the film:

In his «Swiss Autumn Chronicle 1989», Alexander J. Seiler records the political debate about the Swiss army triggered by the «Group for a Switzerland without an Army» and its popular initiative: from the official commemorations «Diamant» and the unofficial counter-events «Klunker» to public debates throughout the country and the referendum. The film also follows the play «Jonas und sein Veteran» by Max Frisch, directed by Benno Besson, from the first rehearsals to the premieres at the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Theatre Vidy Lausanne and the reactions of the audience and political celebrities. 

The result is an exciting dual chronicle of a democratic and an artistic process: politics as theatre and theatre as politics. Above all, however, the result is an impressive picture of Swiss democracy and two opposing «Switzerlands»: the other way of thinking, the other way of cohesion, the Switzerland of tomorrow that many hoped for become tangible and visible. 

«Dida», by Nikola Ilić & Corina Schwingruber Ilić, wins the award for best documentary.

What happens when roles reverse and parents suddenly become dependent on their children? A son is forced to confront this question along with the consequences of his migration. 

Lesia Kordonets wins the best director award in the documentary film category for «Pushing Boundaries».

With the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian Paralympic team loses their training base overnight. Will they succeed in qualifying for the upcoming Paralympics under these difficult circumstances?

Magaly Solier receives the award for best acting in «The Saint of the Impossible» by Marc Wilkins. 

Two undocumented delivery boys in New York want to be loved by a mysterious Croatian girl while their mother is persuaded by a pulp fiction novelist to start a burrito empire from their Bronx kitchen. The American Dream becomes a trap when deportation looms.

Photos by Pascale Weber

In March, «Radiograph of a Family» by Firouzeh Khosrovani will be shown at three different events. 

- 11.03.23, 18:00 Uhr, neues Kino Basel 
- 18.03.23, 12:00 Uhr, Hunters Point Community Library
- 02.04.23, 18:00 Uhr, Filmforum

A brief overview:

«The Shiite revolution creates tension within an Iranian family. The daughter of a secular father and a devout mother tells the story of how they all co-exist under one roof through photos and fictional conversations.»

"Ludwig Hohl, a film in fragments" was restored and digitized in 2013 by the Swiss Film Archive and has since been available in cinemas and via DVD box set. It is now also available on our VOD channel.

In 1982, Alexander Seiler published "Ludwig Hohl, a film in fragments and four texts" in his own publishing house Edition Zyklop Film AG, which contains not only the transcript of the film, but also numerous photos (from film projection) by Pio Corradi, who was the DOP on the film. This publication and conversations with Ludwig Hohl can be found at the SLA (Swiss Literary Archives) in Bern, where Alexander Seiler's estate as an author and journalist is located, while his cinematic oeuvre is archived at the Cinémathèque Suisse.

The SLA houses the rich estate of the writer Ludwig Hohl. Issue 36/2013 of "Quarto, Journal of the Swiss Literary Archives," entitled "Ludwig Hohl," featured as a prelude a text by Alexander J. Seiler, "Conversations with Ludwig Hohl (Geneva, July 21-23, 1978). A Reverberation in Fragments," from which we quote here:
"... Thus, in July 1978 - accompanied by my life and work partner June Kovach and our colleague Friedrich Kappeler - I arrived at Hohl's house not as an emissary of a television station, but as an old acquaintance, and the questions I asked him were not in the name of a curious public, but as a continuation of a conversation that had long since begun. (...) I let his speech run as freely as possible through detours, digressions and ellipses and limited myself, as it were, to punctuating them. (...)"

At Dschoint Ventschr, the DVD edition «Alexander J. Seiler. Twelve Films. A Selection. With a workshop discussion» can be ordered via email to office@dvfilm.ch.

For more information on the life and work of the writer Ludwig Hohl, please refer to the new website of the Ludwig Hohl Foundation: https://ludwighohl.ch/cms/