We try to participate in the film discussions that precede or follow many of the film screenings. Such people as Samir, the famous Swiss-Iraqi director, take me seriously and I always appreciate their patience and incredible modesty. Believe it or not, last year, Doris Leuthard (then president of Switzerland) walked by us one morning flanked by a few ministers and bodyguards. The surprising thing is how few people even noticed!
Enjoy Locarno European history fans will recall the 1925 Treaty of Locarno where representatives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy went there to sign a document guaranteeing peace in Western Europe. Perhaps if more representatives of those countries had mingled with international filmmakers and artists and hiked around
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