Without Roland Béguelin & Marcel Boillat, no Canton of Jura!
Programmed and presented by Jerry White (University of Saskatchewan), who is interested in European cultural minorities and their representation in cinema, this program brings together two documentaries on the history of the Jura autonomist movement in Switzerland, with a particular focus on the 1970s.
Presented by Jerry White
Thanks to Roland Béguelin, general secretary of the Rassemblement Jurassien, and Marcel Boillat, founder of the Front de Libération du Jura – two solitary men whose intelligence and tenacity brought the canton of Bern and the Swiss Confederation to their knees – the canton of Jura exists.
Pierre-Alain Meier
Born in 1952 in Delemont, Switzerland, Pierre-Alain Meier has joint Swiss and Italian citizenship. He studied Sciences and Literature at University of Delemont, and attended INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion) in Brussels. He founded Thelma Film AG in Zurich in 1988. Since 2010, he is based in Delemont with Prince Film and Thelma Film.
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