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Awards / Switzerland


150 articles available in total starting from 12/11/2002. Last article published on 15/07/2025.

Vitus wins Strasbourg Augenblick Award

Winner of the 2007 Swiss Film Prize, Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (Hugofilm, see Focus) has been awarded Best Feature at the 3rd Strasbourg Augenblick Festival. Two other Swiss films also screened in...  

12/02/2007 | Awards | Switzerland

Coca wins in Germany

Chechen militant Sainap Gaschaiewa – the subject of Swiss director Eric Bergkraut’s documentary Coca: la Colombe de Tchétchénie (Doc Productions) – will be presented the International Human Rights...  

10/02/2007 | Awards | Switzerland

And the winner is ... Vitus

Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (see Focus) was named Best Film of the Year at the 2007 Swiss Film Awards, which took place yesterday as part of the 42nd Solothurn Film Days. The jury honoured "a film rich...  

25/01/2007 | Awards | Switzerland

Gambit and Zeit des Abschieds win awards

On December 2, Gambit by Sabine Gisiger (Dschoint Ventschr) won the 11th International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage in the Mediterranean Reportage category at Civitavecchia...  

06/12/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

Vitus prepares for Oscars

Vitus by Fredi M. Murer (see Focus) has won the Audience Award at the 20th AFI - Los Angeles International Film Festival, which ended on November 12. No less than 77 films were in the running for...  

14/11/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

Nominations for the 2007 Film Awards

Twenty films, five scripts and six actors are in the running for the 10th Swiss Film Awards, taking place on January 24 in Soleure. Best Film nominees are Thick as Thieves by Lionel Baier, Das...  

08/11/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

Das Fräulein wins at Sarajevo

Having already won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival a fortnight ago, Das Fräulein has just snapped up two major awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The film was...  

29/08/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

Swiss-Turkish director wins award at Innsbruck

Famous for its Olympic Games, the Austrian town of Innsbruck is also renowned for cinema. From May 22 - 28, the International Film Festival Innsbruck welcomed a diverse range of films on Africa,...  

31/05/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

Silver Gentiane for The Giant

The jury of the 54th Trento Film Festival has awarded the Silver Gentiane to Christian Frei’s The Giant Buddhas (Christian Frei Filmproduktionen, Zurich), already awarded a Silver Dove at the 2005...  

08/05/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

Building the Gherkin wins in Montreal

On March 19, the Honorary Award for Best Reportage at the 24th International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal went to Building the Gherkin. This documentary feature Mirjam von Arx was...  

22/03/2006 | Awards | Switzerland

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