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A unique Festival with an international notoriety

Cinéma Tout Ecran presents on big screen what has been produced for the small ones. It has this way opened a window on a field bustling with creativity which changes the boundaries between cinema and television, where the main points are the quality of the work and the singularity of the director.

Cinéma Tout Ecran is a festival looking for new films and new authors. Above all, it looks towards artistic quality of works made for television or cinema, the representation of the real through fiction and technological advances.

Cinéma Tout Ecran has therefore presented and awarded the following major works during its previous editions: Atom Egoyan’s Gross Misconduct, Robert Guédiguian’s Marius et Jeannette, Michael Apted’s Always Outnumbered, Peter Kosminsky’s No Child of Mine, Arturo Ripstein’s Asi es la vida, Catherine Breillat’s Brève Traversée.

The Festival sections

The Official International Competition

Presents between ten and fifteen films from around the world. An international Jury composed of cinema personalities awards several prizes: the Reflet d'Or for Best Film, the Reflet d'Or for Best Direction, the Performances Awards, the Titra Award for encouragement to cinema distribution, the TV5 Award for the best French-speaking film, the FNAC Audience Award and the FIPRESCI International Critics Award.

International Series, Collections & Long Dramas

This programme proposes a world tour exploring the new TV-series, collections and long dramas. A Jury of professionals awards the Reflet d'Or for the Best Series and the Reflet d'Or for the Best Collection & Long Drama.

International Selection of Short Films

This selection allows to discover new styles, news authors and new films among the best ones of the year. The two Nights of the Short Film represent the most social event of the Festival and also an exceptional experience. A jury of professionals awards the Reflet d'Or for Best Short Film.

New Releases

A competition that presents new cinema talents through their personal works. A Jury awards the Reflet d'Or of the Perpective section.

Swiss Competition

The Swiss Competition allows us to take a look at the latest Swiss TV production.

The Festival events

Major Film Directors on Small Screen

Every year, the Festival pays tribute to an important author who  has worked for cinema as well as for television as R.W. Fassbinder, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, John Frankenheimer and Stephen Frears.

International Seminar

In collaboration with Fonction: Cinéma, SSR SRG idée suisse, the TSR, Arte, Variety and France Culture, the Festival organises a seminar for professionals of the audiovisual world and the channels exchanging televisual news and creations.

Self-portrait of a Channel

Every year, the festival selects as honoured guest an innovative TV-channel. The representatives expose and explain their production politics. We have already welcomed the BBC, the ZDF, the RAI, the DRTV, NOS, CBC-Radio Canada, the RTBF, France Télévisions and ARTE.

Work In Progress

Organised by Cinema Tout Ecran and Fonction: Cinéma, the purpose is to develop international exchanges, encourage joint productions between Switzerland and other countries, and promote the image of Swiss cinema. First of the kind in Switzerland, Work In Progress is a new program, a real platform meant to support Swiss films. This event should enable film directors and producers to find additional funds to finalize an on-going project.

And also at Cinema Tout Ecran: Film Previews, as well as every year, the Geneva Select Market, a unique film market in Switzerland.

In collaboration with the festival Cinématou-Enfant, this Festival proposes animation and feature short films for kids from 3 years. Over 20 short films in competititon, as well as playfull workshops and discussions focusing on animation images. A jury composed of children will award the "TSR best animation film".

contact: www.cinematou.ch

Cinéma Tout Ecran (CTE) confirms its singularity by focusing on the films and their artistic qualities and disregarding the cinema-television frontier. With the International series competition, CTE also asserts its state-of-the-art position. Producers, television channels and the public all grow more and more enthusiastic about this genre. The fans are changing as those who used to confess their interest for television series reluctantly now loudly assert the creative qualities of this specific format. The cinema lovers may soon be superseded by series aficionados who consider that series are now the spearhead of audiovisual creation. The globalization process of the format progresses with Switzerland’s hailed entry in the international league (with Nos archives secrètes).

Benefiting from Europe’s recognition through the support of the MEDIA program, Cinéma Tout Ecran is ideally placed to promote and to become the figurehead of the Swiss cinema. The Festival is an excellent place to exchange and mix, and gives an ideal opportunity for the work of the directors to be presented to professionals coming from all over the world.

For CTE has more than one advantage: a close collaboration with international channels; sections that give the Swiss works many possibilities to be broadcast in Switzerland, in Europe and throughout the world; the Geneva Select Market where Swiss film makers and producers have the opportunity to meet with other professionals and which purpose is to help Swiss films to be exported. Work in Progress has the same objective but mediates earlier on, stimulating international producers to invest and co-produce the films.

“Restore the image of the Swiss cinema abroad”, as says the objective of the Federal Office for Culture, is actually a good idea, but it has to be implemented. Cinéma Tout Ecran is now a both outstanding and indisputable tool to help the Swiss cinema flourish. But the Festival does need support to be able to pursue and extend its mission.

Leo Kaneman, Artistic director of the Festival