Nicolas Wadimoff wins Solothurn Film Festival prize
The documentary film Qui vit encore by Nicolas Wadimoff has been awarded the Prix de Soleure at the Solothurn Film Festival.
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Nicolas Wadimoff wins Solothurn Film Festival prize
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The Prix du Public went to the feature film Becaària by Erik Bernasconi.
Qui vit encore uses a symbolic map of Gaza to tell the stories of nine refugees about their former lives, the loss of their loved ones and their attempts to find their way back to life.
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The “deeply humanistic” film has mastered an extremely difficult task through its form and content, the jury explained in its laudation. It creates understanding for the physical destruction and human sacrifice in a context far removed from the theatre of war.
The film made its international premiere last summer at the Venice Film Festival and will be released in cinemas on February 5.
At CHF60,000, the Prix de Soleure is the most highly endowed film prize in Switzerland. Three feature films and five documentaries were nominated for this prize, which is awarded by the jury.
Prix du Public for Becaària
The Prix du Public, endowed with CHF20,000, went to the coming-of-age feature film Becaària by Ticino director Eric Bernasconi. The film follows the young Mario, who learns a lot about life, love and himself from farmers in the mountains – and finally gets rid of his image as a slacker.
It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ticino author Giorgio Genetelli from 2011. Filmmaker Bernasconi worked on the project with interruptions over a period of almost fifteen years, as he said in an interview with the Keystone-SDA news agency in mid-January.
The audience vote took place online. The cinema release date is not yet known.
Short and animated films
The original project Attempt to cut down a tree in Zurich by Lara Alina was honoured with the award for best short film. In the docu-fiction film, the protagonist describes her Kafkaesque and escalating attempt to get rid of the tree outside her window, which reminds her of her toxic relationship with her ex-boyfriend.
The prize for best animated film went to I’m not sure by Luisa Zürcher. In this film, the filmmaker provides an insight into a stay in hospital, during which she experiences absurdly funny moments alongside pain, homesickness and disgust.
The awards for the short film and the animated film are endowed with CHF10,000 each.
The 61st Solothurn Film Festival recorded around 65,000 admissions from January 21 to 28. This figure is on a par with the previous year.
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