This September, Kino Kosova Film Festival for the second time collaborates with very special guest: Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland’s leading short film festival. In a unique collaboration, Kino Kosova will present a curated selection of Swiss Shorts from Kurzfilmtage 2024, giving our audience in Bern the chance to experience some of the most exciting and innovative works from the Swiss short film scene.

Short films have the power to surprise, provoke, and move us within just a few minutes, and the voices coming from Switzerland today are as diverse and daring as ever.

By bringing these films to Bern, Kino Kosova continues its mission of breaking down borders through cinema. Just as Kosovo’s stories reach far beyond the region, these Swiss shorts will meet new audiences here, sparking dialogue and reflection.

Biography

John Canciani, curator Swiss Shorts, is a film collector since he’s a teenager. He acquired his first experiences in curating films, when he founded and organised a film club in Winterthur. In 2009 he became member of the selection team and board member at the Swiss Youth Film Festival in Zurich. In 2009 he joined the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and was, amongst others, Head of Youth Programme, Programmer of the International Competition and Assistant to the Artistic Director. In 2012 he was assigned as Artistic Director. John is also a film curator at Kino Cameo Winterthur, where he advices the programme manager, regularly curates film programmes and moderates film talks. He has a Master in Advanced Studies in Curating from ZHdK and was Editor of the Issue No. 23 of the magazine on-curating "The Future of Short Film". He is Member of the Swiss and European Film Academy, Board Member at Pro Short and the Short Film Conference. Since 2019, board member of Visions SudEst, where he also selects projects for the production and post-production of feature films and documentaries. He advices festivals, film schools and filmmakers on programming, festival strategies, scripts and editing.