Swiss Film Awards 2009

2009 Swiss Film Awards
2009 Swiss Film Awards: March 7, 2009
 

Ursula Meier’s Home shows how a small community is affected by the building of a new highway nearby
 

Best Fiction Film: Home by Ursula Meier
Best Documentary: No More Smoke Signals by Fanny Bräuning
Best Actress: Celine Bolomey for Du bruit dans la tête
Best Actor: Dominique Jann for Luftbusiness
Best Emerging Actor or Actress: Kacey Mottet Klein for Home
Best Screenplay: Antoine Jaccoud for Home
Best Film Score: Marcel Vaid for Zara
Best Animation Film: Tôt ou tard by Jadwiga Kowalska
Best Short Film: Un día y nada by Lorenz Merz
Special Jury Prize: Danilo Catti for his artistic and political commitment in Giù le mani
 
Jury: Isabelle Favez, Emmanuelle Antille, Ruth Waldburger, Anatole Taubman, Pierre Favre, Barbara Lorey [...]

by Deborah Arthur | March 7, 2009   
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Swiss Film Awards 2008

2008 Swiss Film Awards
2008 Swiss Film Awards: January 23, 2008
 

In Micha Lewinsky’s Der Freund, Philippe Graber stars as a young man whose girl of his dreams has unexpectedly died
 

Best Fiction Film: Der Freund by Micha Lewinsky
Best Documentary: Heimatklänge by Stefan Schwietert
Best Actress: Sabine Timoteo in Nebenwirkungen
Best Actor: Bruno Cathomas in Chicken mexicaine
Best Emerging Actor or Actress: Philippe Graber in Der Freund
Best Screenplay: Jeanne Waltz for Pas douce
Best Short Film: Auf der Strecke by Reto Caffi
Special Jury Prize: Moritz Schneider, Stress and Mich Gerber for the music in Breakout
 
Jury: Marthe Keller (president), Daniel de Roulet, Peter Dinges, Florian Keller, Pierre Monnard, Theres Scherer-Kollbrunner, Jacqueline Veuve
 
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by Andre Soares | January 23, 2008   
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Swiss Film Awards 2007

2007 Swiss Film Awards
2007 Solothurn Film Festival: January 22-28, 2007
2007 Swiss Film Award winners
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Teo Gheorghiu, Bruno Ganz in Vitus
 

Best Film
Comme des voleurs / Like Thieves
Das Fräulein
Grounding
Mon frère se marie / My Brother Is Getting Married
* Vitus directed by Fredi M. Murer
Best Documentary
Das Erbe der Bergler
* Das Kurze Leben des José Antonio Gutierrez / The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez directed by Heidi Specogna
Ein Lied für Argyris / A Song for Argyris
Hippie Masala
La Liste de Carla / Carla’s List
Best Performer in a Leading Role
* Jean-Luc Bideau, Mon frère se marie / My Brother Is Getting Married
Stephanie Glaser, Die Herbstzeitlosen
Michael Neuenschwander, Nachbeben
Best Performer in a Supporting Role
* Natacha Koutchoumov, Pas de panique / No [...]

by Andre Soares | January 29, 2007   
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2007 Swiss Film Award Winners

The 2007 Swiss Film Awards were announced yesterday at the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival.
Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (right), which is one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign-language film Academy Award, was selected as best Swiss film of 2006. Vitus, the story of a reluctant piano prodigy and his grandfather, stars Teo Gheorghiu and Bruno Ganz. It has sold nearly 200,000 tickets since its release in German-speaking Switzerland last year.
The best documentary winner was Heidi Specogna’s The Brief Life of José Antonio Gutierrez, about a Guatemalan street kid who, after immigrating to the United States, joined the U.S. marine corps hoping to gain U.S. citizenship but ended up as the first dead U.S. soldier in the Iraq [...]

by Andre Soares | January 25, 2007   
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