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Last year, Think Cinema welcomed 10,000 attendees over the course of four days, marking a 33% increase in attendance from its inaugural edition. As the festival prepares its third go-round, founder and president Vincent Perez (pictured) anticipates a similar rise.

In 2018, Swiss actor-director Vincent Perez teamed up with the Cinémathèque Suisse, the country’s premiere film archive, to launch a heritage film festival in the actor’s hometown of Lausanne. For its first edition, the event ran under the title r7al – the Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne – and was rebranded Think Cinema Lausanne the following year.

Twin siblings from a German theatrical family get more than their fair share of drama at home in the Berlin competition entryMy Little Sister (Schwesterlein) from Swiss directorial duo Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond. As in their feature debut, the Michel Bouquet-starring French-language dramaMy Little Room—they seem to have a thing for little things —a sterling cast makes up for screenplay weaknesses.

Sheela Biernstiel, better known as Ma Anand Sheela, is an Indian-born American–Swiss former spokeswoman of the Rajneesh Movement. She landed into a pool of controversies after she pleaded guilty in attempt to murder and assault in the 1984 Rajneeshee Bioterror Attack. Looking at her life, many filmmakers have approached her wanting to make a biopic on her. Earlier, Ma Anand Sheela had sent a legal notice to for illegally trying to bring her life on the celluloid. 

He will head to Switzerland to undergo treatment.

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