KINO Festival de films de Russie et d’ailleurs

Marthe Keller, actor (jury chairwoman)

Marthe Keller is an actor and director from Basel (Switzerland). Her European film career got off to a promising start, but she decided to embark on a career in Hollywood in the 1970s, appearing in Marathon Man in 1976 and acting  alongside such major stars as Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and Billy Wilder. In the early 2000s she added opera to her range of achievements, directing Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 2003.

Guy Mettan, journalist

Born in 1956, Guy Mettan has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Geneva. Director and chief editor of La Tribune de Genève from 1992 to 1998, he is now President of the Club Suisse de la Presse and writes for several Swiss newspapers. He is also a member of the National Swiss Commission for UNESCO and deputy of the Grand Council of Geneva. In June 2002 he joined the Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, and was appointed its President in 2006.

Stephane Freiss, actor

The early years of Stéphane Freiss’s acting career were to shape his love of the stage. Meeting Giogio Strehler, who directed him in Corneille’s L'illusion Comique , opened the doors of the Comédie Francaise in 1986. During the same period, P. De Broca gave him the part in Chouans! that was to earn him the CESAR award for most promising actor in 1989. His boldness, his uncompromising approach, and his taste for complex characters have attracted some of the greatest French and foreign directors including A. Varda, J.Deray , P. Granier-Deferre, G.Bertolucci, C.Berri, D.Boon , C. Miller, S. Spielberg,  C. Eastwood, and F. Ozon, who directed him in the film 5X2 . But he could not keep away from the stage, and from the late 1980s he alternated film and theatre work: in 1992 his performance in C'était Bien by J.Sanders earned him the MOLIERE Theatrical Revelation award; this was followed by a string of successes with directors and writers such as E.E Schmitt, R. Planchon, A. Arias, B. Murat, Y. Réza, J.P Amette, and J.L Martinelli, performing in the latter’s production of Détails at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre.  His performance in Brooklyn Boy by Donald Marguliès in 2005 earned him a nomination for the MOLIERE for best actor.  On television he has given remarkable performances in both comedy ( La loi selon Bartoli ) and drama (Papillon Noir); In 2010 he made a decisive encounter, playing the title role in L. Jaoui’s TV biopic of Albert Camus—the first time the writer had been played on the screen. In 2011 he made a short film entitled It Is Miracul'house , and is preparing to make his first feature film as writer and director.

 

Jean Perret, in charge of the Film department at the HEAD

Jean Perret was born in Paris in 1952 and studied in Zurich and Geneva, where he obtained a degree in contemporary history, writing his thesis on Swiss documentary cinema of the 1930s . He taught history, cinema and pedagogy of the image for the Education Department of the Canton of Geneva until 1989. He has written for newspapers and film and photography magazines since the early 1970s, and has written many articles for international catalogues and books. He was an arts journalist in charge of film for Radio Suisse Romande from 1985 to 2000, producing and taking part in cultural radio programmes. He has been a member of a number of commissions focusing on the promotion, production and distribution of film at cantonal and national level, and a consultant for the European Union Media Programme. He has run classes and seminars at a number of schools, festivals and events relating to image interpretation, cinéma du réel, and communication. He founded the Critic’s Week at the Locarno Festival, for which he was General Delegate from 1990 to 1994. In 1995 he was appointed director of the International Festival of Documentary Cinema in Nyon, which was then renamed “Visions du Réel”. In August 2010 he left the Nyon festival and joined Head-Genève in September 2010 as director of the film department, henceforth named “cinéma du reel”.

 

Nathalie Lannuzel, actor and education director of Les Teintureries

Born near the French-Swiss border, Nathalie Lannuzel has loved cinema since childhood and began her training at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Dramatique in Geneva. She then enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris, graduating in 1991. She has acted in a wide range of plays from the classic and contemporary repertoire, working with some thirty Swiss and French directors. Her roles include Lumir in Claudel’s Le Pain dur, Elvire in Molière’s Dom Juan , Elisa in Reza’s Conversation après un enterrement , Marthe in Claudel’s L'Echange , Jeanne Talbot in Hugo’s Marie Tudor , Arkadina in Chekhov’s The Seagul l, Dacha in Mûller’s Ciment , Sylvia in Marivaux’s Arlequin poli par l'amour , Countess Olivia in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night , Andromaque in Racine’s Andromaque , and Madame Blom in Dagerman’s L'Arriviste .

 

 

Anne Nivat, journalist

Anne Nivat holds a PhD in political science and published her first book in 1997, Quand les médias russes ont pris la parole : de la glasnost à la liberté d'expression, 1985-1995 , an analysis of the Russian media landscape of the period. In 1998 she became the Moscow correspondent for Libération and other newspapers and news magazines including Le Soir , Le Point , Ouest France and Le Nouvel Observateur . She has also written regularly for the International Herald Tribune , The New York Times and The Washington Post . In September 1999, Anne Nivat secretly entered Chechnya and made contact with rebels, soldiers and civilians; the resulting book, Chienne de guerre : une femme reporter en Tchétchénie won the Albert Londres Prize in 2000. In 2004 she published Lendemains de guerre , recounting the effects of the US presence in Afghanistan and Irak on the population, especially women. This book earned her the Armée de Terre Prize.

Jean-Philippe Rapp, journalist

After an arts degree at the University of Geneva, Jean-Philippe Rapp worked as a journalist for the Journal de Nyon. In 1970 he began working for Télévision Suisse Romande and, from 1981 to 1986 was co-director of the programme Temps Présent. From 1987 to 1996 he presented the TV news. From 1996 on, he presented, produced and directed the programme Zig Zag Café until retiring from television in 2006. In 1985 he founded the Médias Nord-Sud International; he is the director of the Festival international du film des Diablerets (FIPAD), and co-producer and co-organiser of the Agora du Musée Olympique de Lausanne. Jean-Philippe Rapp is also an author whose works are regularly published by Editions Favre.


Stéphanie Argerich, filmmaker

Stéphanie Argerich was born in Bern in 1975 and has Swiss, Belgian and Argentinian nationality. She graduated in photography at Parson's School of Design (New York).  She then worked with art galleries and production companies in Brussels for several years, and made several film portraits of artists for television, including Nemanja Radulovic: Retour à Belgrade . Her first feature-length documentary Bloody Daughter (Swiss title: Argerich) has been shown at a number of festivals (Locarno, Rome, Viennale, Bafici, Doc Lisboa) and distributed in Switzerland, Japan and Germany. It won the Italia Prize and a Golden Fipa (2013).