You have been living a full, healthy, and normal life when it starts. It doesn’t announce itself – quite the opposite, in fact - and begins with a little memory loss, forgotten words, people, places. “I’m getting old,” you joke.
But that’s not all. Soon, routine elements of your daily life become t...
The journey was long towards what seems a bit of a progressive, long-awaited step into a more suitable, time-adequate move. A bid to allow fathers to become more involved with their own children and with the aim and hope to reduce the inequalities in childcare burden.
Switzerland, that tends to pri...
What does someone feel, when walking for the very last time onto a tennis court, for the final time taking part in a competition?
What are the feelings of someone who has the attention for a final time on him, after spending over 26 years in the world’s spotlights? When the lights switch off and he...
Death can elicit unusual responses. It can surprise us, transfix us, divide us, or unite us. The death of Queen Elizabeth II - a much-loved, much-admired, incredibly long-reigning monarch who served as sovereign of 32 states - certainly elicited a response, one felt at an individual, communal, natio...
The last days of summer are approaching fast. Those warm summer nights have become shorter and cooler again. Those final moments trying to prolong and to keep summer alive for as long as possible. To soak in all those summer feelings, never wanting to finish. The holiday happiness many of us were ex...
For as long as humans have existed, there have always been migration movements. The longing for new horizons has been in most of us.
People who consider leaving their birth country to move to a new continent are increasing. They choose to take this huge step in their life to leave everything behi...
Just hours after Finland’s young prime minister set a Helsinki dancefloor alight, leaked footage of her partying the night away set the internet ablaze. She knew she was being filmed, she said, but trusted that the person filming it would keep it private. They didn’t. To expect such discretion in th...
Those small hands, trying to reach out to hold on to a grownup person, to feel the comfort and safety of someone to hold on to. They are reaching out to somebody, trying to find a role model who leads them through their life. They are reaching out to someone – to simply feel loved.
Every child is u...
Hovering high over both the ping of modernity and the sizzle of one of Europe’s hottest summers is Ticino in the Swiss Alps. It is a world and several generations away from the 40-degree heat and air travel disruption dominating the news pages. One of 26 Swiss cantons, this is a land of ancient ston...
The Locarno Film Festival is the most important film festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the whole of Europe while also being very renowned around the world.
This year is a special year, as the curtains open for the 75th year from the 3rd of August to the 13th...
