Miscellaneous 61st Solothurn Film Festival focuses on empathy in terms of content
At the 61st edition of the Solothurn Film Festival, 164 feature and documentary films are on the program. In terms of content, the organizers are focusing on multi-layered stories.
10.12.2025, 11:31
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"The empathetic approach to the characters currently seems more important than instructing the audience", artistic director Niccolò Castelli was quoted as saying in a press release issued by the Solothurn Film Festival on Wednesday.
One example is the opening film "The Narrative", which tells the story of convicted UBS investment banker Kweku Adoboli - from a perspective that deviates from the familiar pattern of the greedy banker. The film has also been nominated for the Prix de Soleure.
68 percent of the films in the program are documentaries, 32 percent are feature films. Eleven films from German-speaking Switzerland, nine from French-speaking Switzerland and two from Italian-speaking Switzerland are programmed in the three competition sections. The 61st Solothurn Film Festival takes place from January 21 to 28.
