Taste of Cement directed by Ziad Kalthoum, screening Monday 24 April 10:00 at the Salle Communale in Nyon at the Visions du Réel film festival. Film review by Rachel Beacher Syrian director Ziad Kalthoum, exiled in Lebanon in 2013 after running away from military service, has made a beautiful and moving documentary about Syrian builders […]
Surviving and living under Siege – One day in Aleppo – Film, Monday 24 April at Visions du Réel
“Brave documentary filmmaking” – One Day in Aleppo, directed by Ali Alibrahim, produced by Feras Fayyad Screening Monday, April 24 at 14:15 – Capitole Fellini Tickets here This film review is by Rachel Beacher. Rachel is a British journalist based in Lausanne. There is brave documentary making – then, there is filming in the middle of […]
Neither Elephant nor Ass – Being a Bernie Sanders supporter – Film at Visions du Réel
Visions du Réel, the prestigious documentary film festival starts in Nyon on Friday 21st and continues until the 28th April. The festival has a temporary bar and a restaurant set up in the festival central area in Place Perdtemps, and films are screened in six venues across Nyon and in one venue in Gland. The festival is […]
Nyon documentary festival and Les Hivernales rock festival looking for volunteers
Les Hivernales, the winter indoor rock festival that takes place in Nyon from the 23rd- 26th February has released the line up for its 2017 programme. Bands and solo artists from Ghana, the U.S, Belgium and many artists from Switzerland are due to play at twelve different venues across the town. Volunteers wanted The festival […]
Transit Zone and Calabria – Two films at Visions du Réel 2016
Two films shown at the Visions du Réel film festival this year both feature the main protagonists in a state of transit. Heart-warming scenes in “Calabria” In the film Calabria by Pierre Francois Sauter, two undertakers in Lausanne are tasked with transporting a deceased man back to his home town in Calabria. The man was an immigrant from Italy, one of the […]