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Awards / Switzerland


148 articles available in total starting from 12/11/2002. Last article published on 11/04/2025.

Will You Marry Us? scoops Golden Lion at Hachenburg

The Grand Prize at the 3rd Hachenburg Film Festival (September 6-12) was awarded to Micha Lewinsky’s Swiss film Will You Marry Us?. This is the talented director-screenwriter’s second feature,...  

17/09/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Hugo In Africa honoured at Venice

At the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Swiss-Italian director Stefano Knuchel’s documentary Hugo In Africa was awarded the Golden Bisato for Best Director by the independent jury of film...  

14/09/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Marie Leuenberger picks up award at Montreal

The Best Actress award at the 33rd World Film Festival (August 27 – September 7) has gone to Marie Leuenberger. In Will you marry us?, a comedy on marriage scripted by Micha Lewinsky and produced...  

08/09/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Home strikes gold at Torun

At the 7th Tofifest International Film Festival in Torun (Poland), which closed on July 3, Ursula Meier’s Home won the Golden Angel Grand Prize, worth €5,000. Selected in international competition...  

06/07/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Tracing the footsteps of Nicolas Bouvier

Young Swiss director Gaël Métroz’s debut feature Nomad’s Land has just won Best Documentary at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival. The film was previously lauded at Cinema Planeta...  

12/05/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Home honoured in Athens

Having already won around 12 international awards, Ursula Meier’s Home has just scooped the City of Athens Grand Prize at the 10th Greek Francophone Film Festival, which was held from April 2-12....  

16/04/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Home triumphs at Swiss Film Awards

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, swept up nearly a third of the...  

10/03/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Red carpet rolled out for Swiss Film Awards

On Saturday, March 7, all eyes will be on the 12th Swiss Film Awards. For the first time, Swiss public television will roll out the red carpet for the most prestigious awards ceremony in...  

05/03/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss Film Award nominations announced

The nominations for the 2009 Swiss Film Awards – whose ceremony will be held on March 7 in Lucerne – were announced at the close of the Solothurn Film Festival. Fifteen features, ten shorts, three...  

29/01/2009 | Awards | Switzerland

Glorious Exit scoops Grand Prize in Galicia

Presented in international competition at the Cinéma du Réel Documentary Film Festival in Paris in March, Glorious Exit (Amka Films Productions) by Swiss director Kevin Merz has won the Grand...  

21/10/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

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