The Solothurn Days start on Wednesday evening. For a week, moviegoers will be able to discover nearly 200 films, the best of recent Swiss production. German-speaking films and documentaries have pride of place this year.
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Elisabeth Baume-Schneider is coming to the Solothurn Film Festival for the first time as Federal Councilor for Culture. Last year, the task of representing federal Bern fell to the President of the Council of States Eva Herzog.
-Documentaries are very present this year at the Solothurn Film Festival, with more than 60 films compared to 28 fictions in the Panorama section, a selection of the best Swiss productions of the year.
It is with one of them, “The Legacy of Bruno Stefanini” by Thomas Haemmerli, that the festival opens Wednesday evening. The film follows the saga of this son of Italian immigrants who became a billionaire entrepreneur and a collector of 100,000 objects.
