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Rive Jazzy, the festival organised by the "Association of the Quartier de Rive" by Nyon's lakeside celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.  This festival  offers 18 free open air concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sundays (apart from Paléo week) between July 5th and August 4th. There will also be special 20th Anniversary concerts on August  16th, 17th and 18th and a Gala Night on 24 August.  See the 2013 programme here  and check out the different venues Photo above - The crowd listening to a Rive Jazzy evening in a previous year The festival is dedicated to traditional jazz, swing, latin and other kinds of music.  The concerts only take place only in good weather and are usually postponed or cancelled  in case of rain .   The bands and artists perform on small stages which are usually positioned next to restaurants or bars so you can listen to the music at the same time as having a drink or a meal. Perfect!

Flying above Kilimanjaro, looking down at the spectacular Andes from a cockpit or landing at Kai Tak (the old Hong Kong airport) are among the favourite memories and routes of retired *Swissair pilot Eric Bieler, now president of the Conseil Communal here in Nyon. Surprisingly after a career taking him across the world, he no longer has the great desire to travel long distances and now has his feet firmly on the ground. “There is so much to see in Nyon,Vaud and across Switzerland, I don’t need to travel far to see beautiful places, they are all on our doorstop.” Like many people who have retired, he finds his schedule busier than ever. “Even more so than I when I was pilot. Once you have landed and pulled on the parking brake of the plane you can pretty much relax and enjoy the city you have arrived in. The only person you have to worry about is yourself, whereas here, as president of the conseil communal, I preside over meetings of 100 elected members and because of this I’m very aware of many of the latest issues.” “I cannot walk around the town without noticing things or making a mental note on issues which council members are concerned about. There are common subjects that we often discuss in meetings: namely traffic problems, urbanism and taxes, but whatever is discussed, like in many meetings all over the world, sometimes we can pass a motion in five minutes that authorises the spending of 1 million Swiss francs, but we can spend hours discussing the authorisation of a small figure such as 5,000 Swiss francs!” “Despite some of meetings which can be long (and which I try to keep as short as possible) we still have a dedicated group of individuals who are willing to be council members and come out on cold winter nights to attend meetings and to vote on and discuss local issues. These members come from all walks of life and nationalities and are representative all political parties. There are members from the U.S, Britain, Kosovo, etc. We have one Swiss lady, Madame Gabrielle Ethenoz- Damond who who has been serving on the council committee for 50 years!” The president of the conseil communal is an annual position (Eric was previously vice president) and along with heading council meetings he also supervises the votations in the local elections. “I do this job happily as I get great satisfaction by putting back something into the community I live in, and I enjoy meeting people. I have been here since I moved from Lausanne in 1981 and although I know Nyon very well I’m always learning something new about the town. “ Even when I was travelling for work I always took an interest in the social side of Nyon life and became a member of various social sporting and philanthropic associations. Eric is married with two grown up children and when not sat in council meetings, he is also president of the local tennis club and president of the Conservatoire. Any free time he has, he enjoys snowshoeing in the mountains in the winter or taking his motorboat for a spin on the lake in the summer. * Swiss International airlines used to be called Swissair ** There is an opportunity to hear more about Swiss national politics and meet some Nyon council members on January 28th, see Swiss Politics for Dummies event on right hand side bar.

If you are a Nyon resident and you want to take your recycling to the Nyon déchèterie (recycling centre- dump), from now on you will need to show this this sticker/label in the photo below to enter the grounds. These labels have recently been produced by the council for Nyon residents only. At the moment, people from other communes have also been taking their rubbish and recycling to the déchèterie and it is now reaching full capacity. You should have received this sticker in the post inside an envelope saying "Information aux habitantes et habitants de Nyon -Attention Macarons d'acces à la déchèterie dans cette envelope". Last weekend in Nyon Last weekend there was lots going on in Nyon with L'Interculturelle on both Saturday and Sunday, and the final night of Caribana followed by Caribakids on Sunday. If you missed out on either of these, do not despair as this coming weekend it's "La Fete de la Musique" in Nyon with lots on the agenda, so watch this space for more information. The final night of Caribana ended in superb style to celebrate its 20 year anniversary with large crowds present for both Sean Paul and Madness. Over on the lake stage, fans of Mama Rosin danced away to this very popular Genevan band and their unique sound of Cajun Blues and Rock. The introduction of more seating areas in the food areas at Caribana this year proved popular and the new quieter accoustic stage was also deemed a success. Thankfully the weather stayed fine for the last night which  meant that the moment lead singer Suggs from Madness kicked the set off with "One Step Beyond" , the atmosphere was set to end the festival in an upbeat mood. When they finished with "Our house in the middle of the street", the crowd were ecstatic and happy: another very sucessful Caribana over until next year. The crowd went mad for Madness L'Interculturelle Also on Saturday in the early evening at the Salle Communale, there was a pot luck meal as part of the L'Interculturelle events. The flower displays were decorated in flag serviettes and the tables were full of food from around the world. There was Dolmeh from Iran, Spanish Tortilla from Spain, Bigos from Poland, Nasi Goreng from Malaysia  and much more (including treacle tart and shortbread from your Living in Nyon correspondent) plus scones, flapjacks and cottage pie from the International Women's Club of Nyon . Also at the event were a series of panels outlining the history of immigration to Nyon over the years, it showed the proportion of English speakers back in 1989 and then in 2009. This exhibition is die to be shown again in Nyon in September.There were also photos of old adverts for local businesses too such as this one below for Pizzeria da Mario which is now the Croix Verte! Sharing wine, food and other cultures in the Salle Communale

Nyon has a brand new recycling centre which was inaugurated a few weeks ago. This new centre has been designed to make the process of recycling more efficient and faster!  You no longer have to make tricky manoeuvres to get in and out out of a busy car park to recycle your household goods. To gain entry to the new centre, you need to use the official key card (which was sent to all Nyon households - photo below) which opens an automatic barrier leading up a drive to the déchèterie.  The address is  Chemin des Marais 2, in the  l'Asse area of town. Head off towards the Paléo shop and turn right just shortly afterwards. Opening times Monday - Friday  09:00 -12:00/ 13:30 - 18:00  Saturday 09:00 - 18:00 Cars line up and take their turn to recycle, however as you no longer need to separate glass bottles and containers into different colours ie: green, brown and clear glass, (you throw all the colours into one very big container) this speeds up the system considerably! There are recycling bins for vegetable oil and other oils You can recycle neon tubes, tools and some household goods Note - for really big household items (encombrants) there are special collection days that have been allocated throughout 2015. What is an encombrant? Essentially these are bulky items that are too big to go into a normal rubbish/trash bag, items that need to be crushed before incinerated. These tend to be objects such as rolls of carpet, mattresses, skis etc. Items that have a dimension greater than 60 cm. To see the dates of the special collection days in Nyon click here  However some items are excluded from this special house collection: metal chairs, bikes, pans, etc and there is a recycling bin for them at the new centre. There is more information about recycling on the council website click here  Electrical equipment must be returned to the point of sale. Below - Place to return used batteries Places for PET bottles and aluminium cans Place for garden waste Place for used clothes (these need to be tied up in a bag before placing them in the container). Clothes then go towards a charity which recycles them for future use. To find out more about this charity click here

Photo above: Jack Johnson (courtesy of Paléo festival) The line up for Paléo 2011 has now been revealed and as ever there's an interesting mix of music on offer from around the world. This year in particular there is plenty on the programme for Anglophones with big names such as Jack Johnson, James Blunt, The Strokes, Robert Plant, Portishead, The Chemical Brothers, The Noisettes - all of them due to play at the five day festival. At the press conference Daniel Rossellat president of Paléo announced that he was particularly pleased that Jack Johnson had accepted to play in Nyon as he felt that his music would definitely part of the spirit of the festival. Sometimes programmers had to wait quite a few years to get the artists here. Either their tour dates didn't coincide with Paléo dates, or some of them have other family commitments in the summer (there has been a six year wait to get the Chemical Brothers to play here). Photo below: The Noisettes (courtesy of Paléo festival) The Village du Monde music this year comes from the Caribbean with Los Van Van and Chucho Valdes Choc Quib Town, the Creole Choir of Cuba and many others, all set to give tropical, reggae, reggaton, and latin and sounds for the music fans. Photo below: The Creole Choir of Cuba (courtesy of Paléo festival) Swiss Musicians also on line up   This year there are many Swiss musicians from the German speaking part of Switzerland on the programme,  but Romandie holds it own with "Trip In" from Nyon, "Aliose" from Nyon and Geneva, and Geneva based "Mama Rosin". This latter group come to Paléo after a very successful UK tour and performance on the BBC programme "Later with Jools Holland " and BBC Radio Six Music.  For Paléo this year they will be playing with English rockabillies band "Hip Bone Slim". Note: Living in Nyon first wrote about Mama Rosin on this site in 2008 when they performed at the club 1306 and at Paléo last year. There will also be an interview with singer Alizé Oswald from "Aliose" here on Living in Nyon on this site in the next few weeks.   Jacques Monnier head music programmer of Paléo said that the Swiss music tent is often a spring board for many Swiss artists, who then go on to bigger things outside this country so it is a tent definitely worth checking out. Photo below  "Trip In" from Nyon (courtesy Paléo festival) The festival will end on the Sunday with the classical concert of the "Ensemble vocal et instrumental de Lausanne performing the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. Then in the evening Jamel will be providing a touch of comedy to end it all. As ever there will be much more on Paléo nearer to the dates of the festival and during the week  itself, but don't forget if you want to go this year, be ready to buy your tickets the day they are released which is next Wednesday 13th April at midday as it is likely they will sell out very fast as in previous years.  For those newcomers to Nyon who have never been to Paléo , checkout this time lapse video made up of 24'572 ages taken from a camera high up positioned on an elctricity pylon. The video gives you a good idea of what one of Europe's biggest rock festivals is all about! Paléo 2011 - Teaser en time-lapse par paleo Some interesting facts to come out of the Paléo conference are the spectator profile figures,  Origin of spectators Nyon district (Nyon and  surrounding areas Duillier, Eysins, Grens, Prangins, Signy-Avenex, Trélex)  30% Canton of Vaud  (not including Nyon)          20% Canton of Geneva                                                   29% Other French speaking cantons                            8% German speaking part of Switzerland and Ticino  2% France                                                                              10% Other countries                                                              1% Age of  spectators                                     Under 20 years                                                              17% Between 20 and 29 years                                           43% Between  30 and 39 years                                           15% Between  40 and 49 years                                            10% Over 50 years                                                                   15 % Fans are very loyal too! 10% are disovering Paléo for the first time but  79 % of the public have already been to more than three  festivals Out of the 98% of the public who are considering returning the following year, 85% are certain they will return and 13%  say it will be a possibility for them. Ticket  prices are slightly higher this year by 5 CHF, the first increase in a few years.

The annual GAOS (Geneva Amateur Operatic Society) traditional Christmas pantomime (usually performed in Geneva) will take place in Nyon this year at the Théâtre de Marens! The GAOS panto is a fun way to kick off the Christmas festivities and it contains all the usual elements an audience can expect to find in a British "Panto". From well known catch lines, audience sing alongs, fun, corny jokes and great costumes, it's a fun afternoon or evening's entertainment for all the family. Matinée performances at the weekend. Tickets are selling fast!  Details below.   This years panto is called "Once upon a time" - here's the synopsis below provided by GAOS. "You may not realise it, but this is traditional British pantomime containing all the usual ingredients ― except that Cinderella and Snow White are now all grown up and have children of their own! Cinderella’s daughter Lottie is about to get married to Snow White’s son Prince Marvellous, which also means that evil is about to be banished from Pantoland. But the wicked queen, Evelyn, sets out to stop the wedding by transporting Princess Lottie and her two assistants, Nick and Nack, away to the furthermost reaches of the back of beyond. Prince Marvellous, his friend Jack and the cook, Gertie, set off to save them. Along the way, they have adventures with various characters from different fairy stories. You may recognize Captain Hook, Red Riding Hood and the Alice in Wonderland, not to mention the March Hare. Will the Prince and his companions succeed in rescuing Lottie? And can their wedding finally take place?" Eight performances at the Théâtre de Marens, Nyon.   To book - click here Saturday, 29 November and 13 December at 14:00 and 18:30 Sunday, 30 November at 11:00 and 15:30 Friday, 12 December at 20:00. Sunday, 14 December at 14:00 Tickets: 28 francs

New brochure out on Vaud in English The Bureau Cantonal pour l'intégration des étrangers et la prévention du racisme (the Cantonal represtentative responsible for the integration of foreigners and prevention of racism) has now produced its "Bienvenue dans le Canton de Vaud " brochure in English. This brochure includes some very good information, from useful contacts for advice and information, to information on health insurance to housing to financial matters to administrative formalities. Living in Nyon has 20 copies of this brochure, at the next Living in Nyon event (talk above) there will be some available. Alternatively you can download the brochure as a pdf file from their site here

How exactly does the Swiss state school system work? Is the local public school right for my child? There are many families in the Nyon and surrounding area who would like to send their children to a Swiss state school, however they often have questions about the local education system. On Monday October 1st at 19:30, parents will get the chance to have their questions answered by educational expert Margaret Oertig,  author of  the newly released book " Going Local - your guide to Swiss Schooling" . She will be the keynote speaker at this Lloyds TSB Private Banking, Living in Nyon, International Link organised event which will take place at the Uni Global Headquarters in Nyon.   Reservations required -  details below. "Going Local"  unravels every aspect of Swiss schooling from kindergarten all the way to apprenticeships and university.  Margaret Oertig explains the various educational paths available in all 26 cantons (she will focus on the canton of Vaud for this particular talk). Margaret draws on a wealth of personal experience in-depth research and interviews with parents and children alike. The book provides valuable information on cultural differences, language learning, how to develop relationships with schools and integrate your family into the Swiss way of schooling. The book also outlines what schools expect of parents, key facts, figures and essential terminology so that you can make informed, confident choices from the range of options to find the right path for your children in Switzerland. Margaret is also the author of " Beyond Chocolate - understanding Swiss culture". At the event on October 1st there will also be the opportunity to chat (over an apéro) to other parents who already have their children in the local school system. Reservations required. Please email the event co-ordinator -  flurina.knapp@lloydsbank.ch or call 022 307 36 73. The Uni Global Headquarters in Nyon are situated at Avenue Reverdil 8 in Nyon. See map here

Motel Movie will take place at the aerodrome in Prangins tomorrow, this event involves a car and plane show from 14:00, a barbecue from 17:00 and a movie in the open air at 22:00 Note for the movie, best take your own camping chairs as there may not be enough seats to round. There will be vintage cars on display in two categories "American pre-72" and "American pre-65" Rock and roll music too provided by live band "High Octane". Full details on the Motel Movie site

Looking for property in this area is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It's there but you really have to search and dig deep to find it. It's a fact that at the moment demand for property in Nyon and the Vaud area, is greater than supply. Although I have previously covered this topic under Frequently Asked Questions, I have recently received so many emails on this subject, here's a summary again with more info. Looking for property - Do it Yourself Whether you are looking to buy or rent, (with the exception of new builds) you don't usually see estate agents boards outside houses as you do in other countries. If you do, it will say "A Louer -To Rent" and give the details of who to contact. Knocking on the door of a house without an appointment isn't really the done thing! There is some construction going on to address the housing shortage, but apartments are often snapped up at the planning stage and before the first brick is even laid. S o the first step is to visit all the estate agents (régies) in the town near where you are interested in living in or near, Nyon, Rolle, Morges etc. Register with them and give them the details of what you are after. Take note that in Switzerland the number of rooms are counted in "pièces". It is different in Geneva to Vaud, Geneva considers the kitchen as a "pièce". The border between Geneva and Vaud stops at Versoix. The local newspaper La Cote ( covers the area Coppet to Morges), carries adverts for rentals and most of these appear in Thursday's edition. If you haven't yet moved and live outside Switzerland and you are hunting for property, then you can subscribe to this paper online but do take note, that property goes very fast here, it is better to be on site. Catch 22, I realise on this one. Make sure you ask around in the company or organisation you are going to be working for, word of mouth often helps and there are usually others there who are moving out or moving in. Take a look at the side bar or in the classifieds of this Living in Nyon site too, sometimes I place adverts of property that's available. Occasionally you will see an advert on the community noticeboard of a supermarket or in a village shop. Look everywhere! There are various online sites that list property. Know-it-all from the Know it all Passport book. This is an essential guide to Geneva,Vaud and neighbouring France and I would really recommend you buy it even before you arrive here. It has lots of useful hints and tips, and lists real estate agents. Immostreet a property site, the link here is for the English section. The Classified section of WRS, the local English speaking radio station. They also have a programme (you can listen online) each Friday morning betwen 09:00 and 10:00 (Swiss time) called the "Classifieds". This is a section where listeners call up with cars for sale, property to rent, etc. Its a good programme to check into as there are often people leaving who are selling a lot of their goods, so its a great chance to pick up a bargain. Swisster English news site for this area, articles often cover housing issues. GenevaLunch A community newspaper online with articles in English relevant to living here. Has a guide section with advice on managing your finances here Glocals Networking site. Carries a link to "market place" in English for housing. Anglo Info An English guide to the area, includes classifieds. I Love Geneva Website in English and French Tribune de Geneve Newspaper in French, this link is to their housing section Looking for property - Getting others to do it for you If all the above seems a bit daunting and you don't understand French yet, then it may well be worth thinking about using a relocation agent. If your company offers you the service of one, then grab it! If you are looking for somewhere to live, sometimes you could be up against three or four other families who want the same property. When the owner makes the decision to allocate it to someone, that decision isn't always to do with money, it can be down to many factors. A relocation agent will often know the regie or the owner and will have built up a relationship with them over the years. They know what's out there on the market also and can act quickly on your behalf. Having said that some folk have found property on their own without using an agent, but they usually have had some level of French to do this. There are many relocation agents working over here, some very good individual ones (I can personally recommend Droz Relocation. Email: caroladroz-meyer@bluewin.ch ) and there are others that work for larger companies, many of them are listed in Know it All (see above) Commuting from your home. Some readers who have contacted me say they want "ease of access" to work in Geneva, Lausanne, Morges etc. For this I would really recommend thinking about whether you mean via car or train. Remember that the train system is very efficient here and Switzerland has a high rate of rail commuters. So if you are going to be living near, or can park near a station then in the words of an old British advert "Let the train take the strain".The integrated public transport system is very good, it links the buses in the villages in the Jura with the train system, at commuting time at least. All of the above is not a comprehensive list, but the sites listed will link to the majority of sources here. I am afraid I can't respond to individual requests to find property, but I'm happy to place an advert on this site if you are looking all for a very small fee! Best of luck to all those looking for property. Bonne Chance !

Movie reviews - Visions du Réel in Nyon Perestroika - The reconstruction of a flat Saturday 25 11:00 Salle Communale and Monday 27 20:30 Capitole 2 Plane Days - Saturday 21:30 Salle de la Colombiere Perestroika - The Reconstruction of a flat If you think Geneva or Vaud has a housing problem and estate agents have their work cut out finding property for clients, then think again after you see this film. It shows the extraordinary lengths Russian real estate agents have to go to, to sell or buy a flat on behalf of a vendor or purchaser. The reason; an ex state owned seven roomed apartment in St Petersburg may originally have been destined for one family, but now there are seven families living in each room which they they either own or sublet. They share the bathroom and kitchen but retreat to their own flat afterwards, this could be as small as 19 square metres or as "big" as 30 square metres. Thus, when the agent comes to sell the property it is his/her reponsibility to ensure that everyone is rehoused. They spend most of their time driving round the city showing the (usually reluctant) movers to other property to entice them to move. Bribery is sometimes involved. This film focuses on one particular apartment, and we get to see the characters that live there, their personal space, their lifestyle, their concerns and the camera joins them on the hunt for a new place when they are told they have to move. This is film is a real eye opener into the complicated conditions tenants and owners live under (some tenants have separate light switches and bulbs in the kithen, separate toilet rolls in the bathroom). Extraordinary film, extraordinary circumstances. Definitely worth seeing. Plane days This film, although only 15 minutes long, took over three months in the making, so perhaps it was inevitable that its subject matter stayed with one of the directors long after filming had stopped. Director Ewan McNicol was playing tennis when he heard a plane flying overhead so he looked into the skies to see if he could identify it. He could, the plane was an A380. He too had become a plane spotter, (he missed his tennis shot). This delightful documentary points the lens at plane spotters, men (although there is the occasional wife or partner, it's mainly men) who spend their free time at Heathrow looking into the skies identifying planes coming into land. Cargo or passenger plane, Lufthansa or Singapore, they are there with their telephoto binoculars and ready to record all the key facts and figures in their notebooks. There is a lot of waiting around for the plane spotters but in the waiting period they form a camaraderie, sharing wine, information, and humour. It is interesting watching this film in Switzerland, I am not entirely sure whether there is a similar group of individuals at Cointrin airport, I doubt it, however directors Kracun and McNicol have come up with a superb, short film. Some directors could have taken a cheap shot at these individuals but in this film the spotters have has the lens turned on them with subtle observation. It does show a side of British eccentricity which other nationalities may find a tad bizarre, but it succeeds in portraying the plane spotter's enthusiasm with respect, and gives a small insight into their passion. We don't actually see a plane in the film until the very end, along with a dedication to the Wright brothers - a nice touch. This film has just one screening on Saturday 25 at 21:30 (before the film La Vie en 2)

Photo above: courtesy Visions du Réel from  the film "Sniegs" - "Snow Crazy". The Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon finishes today the 27th April with a prize giving ceremony at 19:30 at the Théatre de Marens in Nyon. The ceremony will then be followed by the screening of the film "Vivan las Antipodas!" featuring the landscapes and people of Argentina, Siberia, Patagonia, Shanghai and Botswana. This year as in previous years, it has been another good festival for those who love documentary film. There have been some real gems of films on offer. Some of these were big budget films from experienced film makers with a cast and crew of many; others were just short films shot on a tight budget from directors at the start of their career.  Both Trish Thalman and Suzy Nelson-Pollard have seen and been very impressed by many of these big films, and reviewed them in previous posts. Note: Trish's latest review of "Nanook "will be shortly be posted on this site. This year the Living in Nyon editor chose to view the smaller, quieter contemplative films, those that didn't necesarily come with a message for the viewer,  but were more of an observation on communities or individual people around the world. There were many of these kind of films on the programme, and many of them excellent.  However, heavy editing was needed for quie a few films - some were simply too long, or with too many close up and lingering shots of faces or landscapes.  Yet in some films the lingering on scenes was appropriate and helped to paint a picture of the person or their surroundings. Such was the case of the film "El Olor de Aquel Lugar" by director Andrés Boero.  In the Q & A with the director and the audience afterwards, Boero said he was trying to portray the peacefulness and quiet of the rural Uruguayan countryside and to show the kind of life his grandmother had grown up with. He also revealed that when he was trying to pitch his idea of  a documentary about his grandmother he was asked  "Well who is she? Has she done anything important?"  His answer was, "She is just my grandmother, but her story is worth telling".  Photo above: courtesy Visions  du Réel from  the film "El Olor de Aquel Lugar" The film that followed this screening, "Work Hard, Play Hard" by Marcel Wyss about different individuals living in Switzerland, one a tight rope artist whose long term cocaine use had brought him close to death and another, a young man, a party animal who tried to justfy his drug taking to get him through pressured work days was a complete contrast and it was clever programming on the part of Visions du Réel. Photo above: courtesy Visions du Réel from the film " Work Hard, Play Hard" There were some other interesting portraits revealed in films such as "Checkpoint".  This film was about policemen housed in makeshift huts inspecting vehicles entering the centre of Kabul. The men recruited in different parts of the country did not really know why they were there and Hamed Alizadeh recorded the absurd quality of the daily lives of these men. Whereas the young woman in the following film "Szukajac Soni" knew exactly what she was doing as she had chosen to devote herself to be a nun in a Russian Orthodox monastery.   There were some lighter films too on the agenda this year (though perhaps not enough) "Sniegs" was indeed, as the VDR programme described: "Ski madness in a mountainless country".  This was an amusing surreal portrait of a people in Latvia determined to satisfy their craving to ski.  The film "La Vierge, Les Coptes et Mois" was also an amusing part documentary/part staged film by Namir Abdel Messeh. This film maker travelled to his native Egypt from Paris to make a film about the miraculous appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary among the Coptic Christian Community. His investigation provided an excuse to visit his family, in the countryside and to involve the whole family in a fantastic celebration. There were many other films definitely worthy of a mention, particularly for the super photography in the two films shown last night at the Capitole Cinema "Ved Havet" about a small fishing village in the North of Denmark  and "Le Gosse " featuring a French boy living in rural France on the threshold of becoming an adult.  Photo above: courtesy Visions du Réel  from  the film "Ved Havet" Both Trish and Suzy have come up with their list of favourite films at this festival, it will be interesting to see if any of these are chosen as winners at the prize giving ceremony tonight. Living in Nyon will be tweeting the results as they are revealed. If you are not following the Living in Nyon tweets (see Julius Caesar icon at the bottom of the this site to follow us) then just check this site out during the course of the evening. Trish's top six films 1. Forbidden Voices 2. Tahrir 3. Chronique d'un mort oubilee  4. Skinhead Attitude 5. Nanook of the North  6. Tropicalia and Suzy's favourite films 1. Forbidden Voices 2. Reunion 3. Capitaine Thomas Sankara 4.  Nés derrière les pierres The Editor's  favourite films 1. "Forbidden Voices" 2. "A Home Far Away" (for its local interest) 3. "Ved Havet" Film above: courtesy Visions du Réel from the film "Nés derrières les pierres"