| GERMAN LANGUAGE FILMS FROM SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, AND AUSTRIA AT SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALMay 16 - June 9
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The Seattle International Film Festival continues with films from all over the world.
The Swiss film #Female Pleasure where five repression-battling women are profiled, will be shown on May 31 and June 1. These women come from different religious backgrounds but find that patriarchal fear of female sexual autonomy is universal.
#Female Pleasure by Barbara Miller, Switzerland, 2018, 97 min.
May 31, 6:15 PM
SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, Seattle, WA
June 1, 4 PM
AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine Street (Ste. 400), Seattle, WA
For further information about all German language films click here.
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3rd LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL IN LOS ANGELES
June 13 - 16
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The third annual Locarno Film Festival in Los Angeles, running from June 13 to 16, returns with a special four-day program that will include a 35mm opening night presentation of Leo McCarey's 1937 classic The Awful Truth at LACMA, followed by an exclusive three-day program of Los Angeles premieres at the Laemmle Music Hall, including the highly-anticipated arrival of the 14-hour Argentine epic La Flor. Charting a course across the entire history of cinema, Locarno in Los Angeles promises to once again bring a tantalizing taste of one of the world’s best film festivals to Los Angeles for a one-of-a-kind event.
Locations:
Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Laemmle Music Hall
9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211
For further information click here.
This festival is supported
by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco.
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17 SWISS FILMS AT PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL SHORTFEST
June 18 - 24
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The Palm Springs International ShortFest -- celebrating its 25th anniversary -- is the largest short film event in North America.
A highly competitive festival, ShortFest receives over 5,000 submissions from over 100 countries around the globe. Approximately 325 shorts are selected and screened in 90-minute themed programs, with many of the remaining titles available for viewing in the Market. An Oscar®, BAFTA® and Los Premios Goya-qualifying festival, ShortFest has presented more than 100 shorts that have gone on to receive Oscar® nominations and/or awards.
This year ShortFest presents 17 shorts from Switzerland. For further information about the Swiss films click here.
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HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE:
ARCHITECTURAL RESERACH IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Exhibition is open until June 28
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swissnex San Francisco's exhibition is a visual journey through research on the digital transformation of architecture and construction. It reveals the conception and making of the DFAB HOUSE: A three-story experimental building demonstrating the pioneering research in computational design and digital fabrication being conducted by architects in collaboration with leading experts in fields ranging from robotics to material science.
Discover the DFAB HOUSE and the pioneering collaboration of Gramazio Kohler Research & Digital Building Technologies of ETH Zürich.
At swissnex San Francisco
Pier 17, The Embarcadero, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA
For further details click here.
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SWISS TOUCH: TO THE MOON AND BEYOND...50th Anniversary of Humankind on the MoonJuly 30, 6 PM to 10 PM
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Earthrise image courtesy NASA CC0
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On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 touched down on the lunar surface, safely delivering Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin—the first humans to land on the moon. The Swiss Solar Wind Composition Experiment, manufactured by the University of Bern and the Swiss National Science Foundation, was the only non-American experiment to be part of the Apollo landings.
Where do we stand after 50 years, and where are we headed?
Gather with astronauts, scientists, and artists to discuss the past, the future, and our inspiration for the unknown space.
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Among the esteemed speakers are Switzerland's first astronaut in orbit, Claude Nicollier, and Jill Tarter, Emeritus Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, who was named one of the Time 25 in Space in 2012.
For the entire list of speakers please click here.
July 30, 2019, 6:30 – 10:00 PM
swissnex San Francisco
Pier 17, The Embarcadero, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA
Doors open at 6:00 PM; a reception will follow from 9:00 – 10:00 PM
To the Moon and Beyond is an event of the Consulate General of Switzerland's Swiss Touch campaign in collaboration with swissnex San Francisco and the Exploratorium San Francisco.
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| NEWS FROM THE SWISS COMMUNITY
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SWISS KIDS CAMP
June 9, 9:15 AM to 3:30 PM
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The United Swiss Societies of Northern California invites your children ages 4 - 14 to join the Swiss Kids Day Camp for a fun filled day to experience Swiss culture.
June 9, 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM
Swiss Park, 5911 Mowry Avenue, Newark, CA
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For further information and registration click here.
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