2024 CONTEMPORARY WORLD FILM SERIESFOURTH FILM OF THE YEAR‘TAMBOUR BATTANT’ (‘ROLL THE DRUM’), SWITZERLANDDirected by François-Christophe Marzal1 Hr 30 MinsSATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 2024, 4:00 PMSupported by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cultural FundTrailer: https://vimeo.com/821294391
This is a multi-layered social comedy that amalgamates many subjects- music, competition, love, family, and even politics, immigration, and the women’s suffragette movement.
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2024 CONTEMPORARY WORLD FILM SERIES
FOURTH FILM OF THE YEAR
‘TAMBOUR BATTANT’ (‘ROLL THE DRUM’), SWITZERLAND
Directed by François-Christophe Marzal
1 Hr 30 Mins
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 2024, 4:00 PM
Supported by the Embassy of Switzerland and the Swiss Cultural Fund
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/821294391
This is a multi-layered social comedy that amalgamates many subjects- music, competition, love, family, and even politics, immigration, and the women’s suffragette movement.
The Swiss film is set in a fictional, picturesque town of the ‘canton’ (province) of Valais in the 1970’s, where two brass bands are rehearsing, hoping to perform for the Federal Music Fair, which only takes place once every five years.
In Valais, women also gained the right to vote at the cantonal level for the first time in 1970. This historical event is set against the fictitious tale of…