Welcome to the Swiss film industry — economist.com

THE dedicated watcher of the international movie scene may find that “Solothurn” does not roll off the tongue in the way that, say, “Toronto” or “Sundance” or “Berlin” does. But this pretty Swiss town has just held its 50th festival of feature and short films, along with a plethora of documentaries. Indeed, it was a documentary about a martial-arts programme in Marseille, “Spartiates”, that won the Prix de Soleure awarded to the year’s best film. Its maker, Geneva-born Nicolas Wadimoff, and his producers are now 60,000 Swiss francs ($65,000) richer.

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