Cultural promotion The federal government will cut funding for important cultural players from 2029
From 2029, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will discontinue partnerships with Swiss cultural institutions. Renowned institutions such as the Locarno Film Festival, the Culturescapes Festival and the Visions du Réel documentary film festival will be affected.
06.02.2025, 14:20
SDA
As the institutions jointly announced on Thursday, Artlink, the Fribourg Film Festival FIFF, the International Short Film Festival Winterthur, the Salon africain du salon du livre de Genève, the film distributor Trigon-Film, the Unesco Fonds international pour la diversité culturelle, the film production fund Visions Sud Est, the Zürcher Theater Spektakel and the Südkulturfonds are also affected.
From 2025, the SDC has cut its funding for cultural cooperation by 45% from CHF 3.7 million to CHF 2 million per year. These two million francs will be affected by further cuts. In December, Parliament cut CHF 110 million from the 2025 budget and CHF 321 million from the financial plan for international cooperation for the years 2026 to 2028.
