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AWARDS Switzerland

Home triumphs at Swiss Film Awards

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Winning Best Feature, Best Screenplay (Ursula Meier and Antoine Jaccoud) and Best Emerging Actress (10-year-old Kacey Mottet Klein), Meier’s debut feature, Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Thierry Spicher
interview: Ursula Meier
film profile
]
, swept up nearly a third of the Quartz trophies at the Swiss Film Awards ceremony, held in Lucerne on March 7.

Still showing in Swiss theatres, Home has just exceeded the 60,000 admissions threshold and was recently launched in Spain. The film is set to be released in April in Greece, India and Bulgaria, before hitting screens in Cyprus, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, the UK, Ireland and Austria.

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The Special Jury Prize went to Tessin director Danilo Catti’s documentary Giù le Mani, about the struggle of the Swiss railway workers.

One surprise winner was Swiss-German director Fanny Bräuning’s No More Smoke Signals, which picked up the Best Documentary Quartz. This very conventional film about the Dakota Indians outshone Swiss-French director Fernand Melgar’s asylum seeker-themed The Fortress [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, which was the firm favourite to win.

Swiss-German star Dominique Jann won the Best Actor Quartz for his performance in Dominique de Rivaz’s Luftbusiness [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
, while Shooting Star Céline Bolomey (see interview) took home the Best Actress Quartz for her role in Vincent Pluss’ The Noise In My Head [+see also:
trailer
interview: Céline Bolomey
film profile
]
.

The first ever Quartz for Best Film Score was awarded to Marcel Viad for his work on Ayten Mutlu Saray’s Zara.

Almost 1,300 guests attended the Swiss Film Awards ceremony, which was organised for the first time by Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR idée suisse and shown on five of its channels over the course of a night devoted entirely to Swiss film.

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(Translated from French)

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