Swiss films win awards in Dresden and Linz
26.04.2010
Swiss director Nicolas Steiner was honoured with the Saxon Minister of Fine Arts Promotion Prize, endowed with EUR 20,000, at the 22nd Filmfest Dresden (April 20-25, 2010) for his short film “Ich bin’s Helmut”. Steiner had completed the short film at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg. At the 7th CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz (April 20-25), Séverine Cornamusaz was awarded the Audience Prize, amounting to EUR 5,000, for her fiction film debut “Coeur animal”, for which she had won the Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2010 earlier this year.
A total of 70 films from 20 countries participated in this year’s competition of the Filmfest Dresden, which awards the highest prize money in Europe for a short film festival, amounting to a total of approximately EUR 59,000. The Minister of Fine Arts Promotion Prize, endowed with EUR 20,000 and sponsored by the Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts, went to a Swiss director for the first time: Nicolas Steiner for “Ich bin’s Helmut”. Swiss director Michael Koch had won the “Golden Horseman” award for his short fiction film “Polar” in Dresden last year.
In addition, Séverine Cornamusaz’s “Coeur animal” marks the first time that a Swiss film has won an award at the CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz. Cornamusaz attended the festival to accept the award personally. The festival was founded in 2004 and focuses on “idiosyncratic, contemporary and socio-political auteur films from Europe”. The Austrian festival pays particular attention to young talented filmmakers from the French-speaking regions of Switzerland, screening films by Ursula Meier, Lionel Baier and Vincent Pluss in 2009.
Zurich, April 26, 2010
In addition, Séverine Cornamusaz’s “Coeur animal” marks the first time that a Swiss film has won an award at the CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz. Cornamusaz attended the festival to accept the award personally. The festival was founded in 2004 and focuses on “idiosyncratic, contemporary and socio-political auteur films from Europe”. The Austrian festival pays particular attention to young talented filmmakers from the French-speaking regions of Switzerland, screening films by Ursula Meier, Lionel Baier and Vincent Pluss in 2009.
Zurich, April 26, 2010