Teleclub has long played an important role in funding new films. The broadcaster has to invest four percent of its earnings in Swiss filmmaking. An obligation that, incidentally, does not apply to international streaming or pay TV providers. Over the years, Teleclub has therefore funded a large number of Swiss productions: These include films such as “Children of the Open Road” (1991), “Beresina” (1998), “Rascals on the Road” (2004), “Heidi” (2014) and most recently the new film by famous Swiss director Michael Steiner, “Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse” (Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey into the Arms of a Shiksa), which was recently premièred at the Kitag cinema Corso as part of the Zurich Film Festival. Even when it was first launched in 1982, Europe's first pay TV broadcaster drew greater attention to Swiss feature films. This was because, even though Switzerland (apart from the Basel region) had almost complete cable coverage at the time, feature films on television were a rarity: There were days when not one of the around eleven channels broadcast a feature film. Teleclub CEO Willy Heinzelmann: “SRG was formerly the only provider to broadcast Swiss feature films. The fact that there was now a second, albeit still very small, provider certainly helped to lend new momentum to the Swiss feature film industry.”