FIFF - Fribourg International Film Festival

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Monday, 12 July 2021 - 10 minutes

The Fribourg International Film Festival takes place every year in Fribourg. This will be the 35th edition, taking place 16-25the July 2021.

Its aim is to promote quality films and thus contribute to ensuring cinematographic and cultural diversity in Switzerland as well as throughout Europe. In this spirit it selects works essentially from Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

FIFF programmes a cinema of inventiveness and poetry as the expression of a conquered freedom – sometimes at great cost. By getting away from the landmarks and writings of western cinema, the films selected by FIFF require of the spectator the disposition to be troubled by images, stories and ideas that may not be conformist for a Swiss public.

WRS talks to Artistic Director Thierry Jobin about the FIFF highlights this year, including special guests. 

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