Swiss Film Awards Articles

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]