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On Sunday 6th November it’s the Leman Expat Fair. Over 120 Swiss and international businesses and services with experience in serving the English-speaking community will be in one place under the same roof at the Beaulieu in Lausanne. Whether you have just arrived in Switzerland, or have been here for a while, these fairs are a great way of finding out what’s [...]
Tuesday evening in Nyon saw the official launch of the book “Living along Lac Léman”. Thankyou so much to all those who came to the Villa Thomas at the COV for the vernissage/launch. Photos above. Happy book fans! The venue in the stunning lake side setting made it the perfect place to launch the book. It also gave readers of [...]
On Tuesday night a new cinema club launched in Nyon with the aim of showing a variety of international films twice a month at 20:00 on a Monday night throughout the year, at the Capitole cinema in the heart of town. The programme begins on the 10th October and continues through to 26th March 2012. Andrea Bachmann-Helbling, club [...]
A quick reminder that the documentary film “Cleveland against Wall Street” will be shown tonight in English at Nyon cinema at 20:00 . The director of Visions du Réel film festival will be present at the screening and will be speaking to the director Jean Stephan Bron (from Lausanne) about the making of the movie. The film’s storyline is about the victims of the subprime crisis in the [...]
There is a busy weekend coming up in Nyon with lots of events on the agenda. Also, please note (re previous post) there will be NO English column in La Côte newspaper this Friday due to space restrictions. Here’s an advance notice that on Monday 6th June at 20:00 there will be a special screening of the [...]
Visions du Réel ended its six day festival on Wednesday night with a closing ceremony at the Théâtre du Marens. Amongst the prizes awarded to films, the film “Hula and Natan” by Robby Elmaliah won the prize chosen by the “Jury of the young audience” and was one of those in the “top favourite five films” list of Trish Thalman (see post here). The film, “People I [...]
Patrick Chappatte, cartoonist in a scene from his own film “La Mort est Dans le Champ” Photo and images above and below: Courtesy Visions du Réel. Nyon’s film festival is now in its final day and tonight the winners of films that were entered into the different categories of competition, will be announced at the closing ceremony. There were hundreds of [...]
Here are two more film reviews written by Karhy Morf on films that have been shown at Visions du Réel over the festival. If you missed seing any of these films, all is not lost, quite often they are shown again either on Swiss television or at the cinema later on in the year, if this should happen Living [...]
Milk and Iron – Leite e Ferro by Claudia Priscilla Goifman ” Brilliant film” showing tonight. Motherhood in prison Kathy’s seventh and last review at the Visions du Réel festival. “Milk and Iron” will be shown again tonight on 12th April at 20:00 at the Capitole 2 Cinema. This is a European premiere and Kathy says;”I highly recommend [...]
Trish Thalman reviews the “Le Prince et Son Image” directed by Hugues Le Paige. This was shown at Visions du Réel at the weekend. If you missed any of these films that are being reviewed, all is not lost, quite often they are shown again either on television or at the cinema later on in the year and [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
