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Awards / Switzerland


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

La reina del Condón scoops honours in Barcelona

The jury of the 8th Docúpolis -Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival awarded the prize for Best Debut Documentary to Swiss title La reina del Condón (“The Queen of the Condom”) by...  

08/10/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Home wins at Montreal and Angoulême

On August 31, the jury of the 1st Angoulême Francophone Film Festival awarded Best Swiss Feature Film Home and a mention to its young actor Kacey Mottet Klein, who stars alongside Isabelle...  

05/09/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss filmmaker receives Student Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles have awarded the 2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Student Film to Reto Caffi for his film short Auf der Strecke, which was made at the...  

27/05/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Echoes of Home lauded in Italy

Winner of the Quartz for Best Documentary at the 2008 Swiss Film Awards, Stefan Schwietert’s Echoes of Home also won over the jury at the 56th Trento International Festival of Mountain,...  

06/05/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss director honoured in Schwerin

After Bettina Oberli (North Wind) in 2005, Stina Werenfels (Going Private) in 2006 and Oliver Rihs (Black Sheep) in 2007, once again a young Swiss filmmaker has won the German television...  

06/05/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Shake the Devil Off honoured at Nashville

Shake the Devil Off by Swiss director Peter Entell (produced by Show and Tell Film) has won the Best Documentary Award at the 39th Nashville Film Festival (April 17-24). The film recounts the...  

30/04/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Three Swiss nominees for Davids

Days and Clouds by Italian-Swiss director Silvio Soldini is vying for honours with no less than 15 nominations for the 52nd David di Donatello Awards, whose ceremony will be held on April 18 in...  

08/04/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Specogna wins Grimme Award

The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez, the German/Swiss co-production (PS Film, TagTraum) by Swiss director Heidi Specogna, has won the Adolf Grimme Award for Best Screenplay and Best Director...  

20/03/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Letter to Anna wins Vaclav Havel Award

Heading the jury at the 10th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, writer and former president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel presented the award that bears...  

12/03/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

Return to Gorée honoured in Los Angeles

Selected in the Best Documentary Competition at the 16th Pan African Film & Arts Festival (held in Los Angeles from February 7-18), Return to Gorée picked up the Jury Prize. This documentary by...  

22/02/2008 | Awards | Switzerland

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