The Swiss fund visions sud est was initiated by the Foundation trigon-film Baden and the Fribourg International Film Festival, with the collaboration of Nyon's Visions du Reel, the Festival del film Locarno and the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. It supports film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, aims at making them visible worldwide and guarantees their distribution in Switzerland.

The next application deadlines are 28 February 2017 and 3 August 2017.