Oberhausen: six Swiss films in competition

No less than six short film productions from Switzerland will be screened in various competitions at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen – the oldest short film festival in the world that ranks internationally among the most important. Compared to previous years, this is an exceptionally large number of Swiss films competing in the festival.

18.03.2015

No less than six short film productions from Switzerland will be screened in various competitions at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (April 30 - May 5, 2015) – the oldest short film festival in the world that ranks internationally among the most important. Compared to previous years, this is an exceptionally large number of Swiss films competing in the festival.

Selected for the International Competition 2015 are two new documentary films – Basil da Cunha’s “Nuvem Negra” and Pauline Julier’s “La disparition des Aïtus” – together with Max Philipp Schmid’s experimental film “Paradies”. “Nuvem Negra” and “Paradies” will celebrate their world premieres in Oberhausen.

Maja Gehrig’s animation film “Königin Po”, winner of the Audience Award for best animated film at the Solothurn Film Festival 2015, as well as Flo Linus Baumann’s “Between” and Ursula Meier’s “Tišina Mujo”, which won the award for Best Swiss Film at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2014 will be screened in the Children’s and Youth Films Competition.

SWISS FILMS, March 18, 2015

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