Sophie Jarvis’ first feature film Until Branches Bend [+lire aussi :
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The audience, for their part, were won over by Amine – Held auf Bewährung [+lire aussi :
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The festival’s third prize, First Work, which, as the name suggests, rewards debut feature films, went to Carmen Jaquier’s fascinating and powerful movie Thunder [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. Having previously scooped a number of awards in various international festivals, Thunder was recently nominated in three categories at the Swiss Film Prize: Best Fiction Film, Best Score and Best Sound. Thunder won over the jury composed of screenwriter Joanne Giger, film critic and director of the Montreal Cinemania Festival Guilhem Caillard, and Locarno Pro head Mark Duffner, by virtue of its “eye for good shots and its embodied landscapes, which feed into this story transporting us to another time”. These three films show how dynamic and surprising young Swiss cinema can be.

The results of this 58th edition of the Solothurn Film Festival, the first with Niccolò Castelli as artistic director (read our interview), are undoubtedly positive. After a 2022 edition still marked by the stigma of the pandemic, the festival has rediscovered its former dynamism, winning over/back viewers (55,000 cinema admissions) and professionals alike. The festival’s rich parallel programme (consisting of the Meeting event, the Focus line-up and, above all, the newly born Making Film section) has also helped to draw in audiences, offering up a taste of the magic of cinema to suit anyone’s palate.

The award winners are as follows:

Prix de Soleure
Until Branches Bend [+lire aussi :
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Audience Award
Amine – Held auf Bewährung [+lire aussi :
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First Work Prize
Thunder [+lire aussi :
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