Successful weekend for Swiss documentary films
“More Than Honey” was honoured with a Lola in Berlin and “Karma Shadub” with the Grand Prix in Nyon; “Vaters Garten” won an award in both Nyon and Linz; and “Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open” was voted as the audience’s favourite in Turin.
29.04.2013
Swiss documentary films were able to reap a rich harvest at the weekend: the German Film Award 2013 for Best Documentary Film went to Markus Imhoof’s “More Than Honey” (cf. press release on April 26) and the Grand Prix of the International Competition at the Festival Visions du Réel in Nyon to “Karma Shadub” by Ramòn Giger and Jan Gassmann (cf. Web news on April 26). Peter Liechti’s “Vaters Garten – Die Liebe meiner Eltern” won awards at two different festivals: the Fedeora Award for Best European Documentary from the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean at the Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz (April 23-28, 2013); snf the Special Prize of the Jury in Nyon. The film, which the cineaste dedicated to his parents, won the award from the “Tagesspiegel” Reader’s Jury at the Berlinale 2013. The audience at the 28th Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (April 19-25) voted Daniel Young’s portrait “Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open” as the Best Documentary Film.
“Opération Libertad” captures the audience in Liège
Nicolas Wadimoff’s fiction film “Opération Libertad,” which celebrated its premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes last year, won the Audience Award at the 7th Crime Film Festival in Liège.
Animation films win awards in Stuttgart
Two of the fifteen Swiss films screened at the 20th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (April 23-28) were honoured with awards: the animation “Freitag X-Mas Movies” by Claudia Röthlin and Yves Gutjahr won the Animated Fashion Award, endowed with EUR 2,000; and the Swiss-German-Swedish feature-length animation film “Molly Monster – der Film” by Ted Sieger won the German Screenplay Award. The award is endowed with EUR 2,500 and went to co-screenwriter John Chambers. The film’s theatrical release is scheduled for autumn 2015.