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Set for March 20\u201329 in the Swiss city of Fribourg, this year\u2019s edition revisits the event\u2019s origins while highlighting emerging filmmaking scenes and genre traditions from around the world.<\/p>\n
Revisiting the Festival\u2019s Origins<\/p>\n
A key strand, Deciphering: The 1st Edition of Fiff looks back to the festival\u2019s inaugural edition in 1980, when the event was launched under the name Festival of Third World Film. That first lineup introduced audiences in the Swiss university town to works from regions that were rarely represented in European theatrical circuits at the time.<\/p>\n
The Deciphering program revisits five of the seven films screened during that inaugural year, giving audiences a rare chance to experience some of the festival\u2019s earliest highlights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alongside its international competition, the 40th edition of the Fribourg Intl. Film Festival unfolds across a wide range of parallel programs that expand the festival\u2019s focus beyond premieres to retrospectives, thematic sections, and audience-curated screenings. Set for March 20\u201329 in the Swiss city of Fribourg, this year\u2019s edition revisits the event\u2019s origins while highlighting emerging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2325323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fribourg-Film-Festival-Sidebars-Spotlight-Colombia-Mothers-in-Film-and.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325325,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325323\/revisions\/2325325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}