Kacey Mottet Klein, Shooting Star in 2016. In Keeper he plays a 15-year-old whose girlfriend becomes pregnant. How will this affect his dreams of becoming a professional footballer? (filmcoop.ch)
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Sven Schelker, Shooting Star in 2015. For his role as a drag artist in Der Kreis (The Circle), a docudrama based on the true story of a network of gay men in postwar Zurich, Schelker was named Best Actor at the Swiss Film Award 2015. (Aliocha Merker 2011)
Aliocha Merker 2011
Nils Althaus, Shooting Star in 2007. Teen drama Breakout featured several young Swiss talents but it was Althaus who got the nod. (Zodiac Pictures/Roland Schmid)
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Joel Basman (on the left), Shooting Star in 2008. In Luftbusiness (Life for Sale) Basman plays one of three young dropouts who auction themselves online. One sells his future, one sells his past, the third sells his soul... (filmcoop.ch)
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Carla Juri, Shooting Star in 2013. Juri played the gynaecologically obsessed lead character in the humorously explicit Feuchtgebiete (Wetlands), a German film based on a German novel. (filmcoop.ch)
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