Can a film help host countries and refugees learn to live together in a more tolerant atmosphere? Yes, says Mano Khalil, a Syrian-Kurdish-Swiss filmmaker, plagued by years of persecution. Mano Khalil was once arrested upon arriving in Syria from Czechoslovakia, where he was studying film in. Khalil was able to buy his way out, but he soon had to leave Syria because of a film he had made in secret that was critical of the regime. Khalil has felt persecuted ever since he can remember. As a child h

For its 75th anniversary, the Cinémathèque Suisse has many reasons to celebrate. It is considered one of the ten most important film archives in the world; preserving not only the memory of Swiss cinema but also many other international film gems.⁠ ⁠ Today, the institution is an undisputed part of the Swiss national heritage and generously subsidised by the government. Its new research centre, inaugurated in 2019 in the village of Penthaz near Lausanne, centralised the country’s collection of fi