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The Solothurn Days, which celebrate 60 years this year, began on Wednesday evening. Elisabeth Baume-Schneider is coming to this event for the first time as a federal councilor.
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January 22, 2025 – 6:00 p.m.
-(Keystone-ATS) “The Solothurn Film Festival allows us to take stock of Swiss cinematographic creation,” said Elisabeth Baume-Schneider on Wednesday evening. It is also a place where we try to understand who we are as a society. »
On the occasion of the opening of this anniversary edition, the Minister of Culture quoted Stephan Portmann, co-founder of the Days. At the beginning of the 1960s, “the new wave of Swiss cinema ‘used our reality as raw material’. This movement and the creation of the Solothurn Days were a reaction to profound social, cultural and political changes in Switzerland. »
“And if we look a little closer, we see that Switzerland today is in the grip of equally significant upheavals,” said the federal councilor, also sensitive to the fact that the festival is undermining its spotlight during this edition on the films filmed and the paintings produced in the Jura Arc, the region from which it comes.
