The Swiss film harvest for 2024: taking stock of migration and the right to protest

My latest for @swissinfo_en: I roamed the @sofilmtage, noticed some thematic trends, and thought about how we often mistake movies tackling issues for actually tackling issues. https://t.co/OhuCobA7lA

— Alan Mattli (@AlanMattli) February 11, 2024

"Indeed, perhaps the most intriguing conclusion to be drawn from this year’s Solothurn Film Festival is that Swiss cinema seems to be engaged in a struggle to make sense of two distinct but ultimately interrelated discourses that animate the polar ends of the political spectrum – the country’s restrictive approach to all things immigration on the one hand and the question of where to draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate forms of political dissent on the other."

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