Poor, cold and rebellious: the Swiss Jura shows its rich imagination in films

My latest for @swissinfo_en: the @sofilmtage's 60th edition dedicated a retrospective to the elusive Jura region – here's what I found there. https://t.co/nYlBCMAVG2

— Alan Mattli (@AlanMattli) February 23, 2025

"Enter the Solothurn Film Festival, the annual showcase of the Swiss film industry, which took place for the 60th time from January 22-29. It marked the anniversary with a 30-film retrospective dedicated to the 'Imaginaires du Jura' – the Jura as it exists in the pop-cultural archive of Swiss and French cinema. If the Alps are, in a sense, the past of Switzerland, and the plateau its present and future, what role is there for the Jura?"

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