Twelve films are in the running this year for the Regard d’Or, the top award of the Fribourg International Film Festival (March 24 – 31), which carries a prize of CHF 30,000 (USD 33,000). For the competition, current productions were selected from the FIFF’s traditional focal points, namely South and Latin America, Asia and Africa. In addition the Near and Middle East are represented, with films from Jordan, Egypt and Iran. Many film-makers will be in attendance in Fribourg to present the...
The Swiss Television Awards, the most important awards of the Swiss television industry will now be part of the Rose d'Or Festival. This prestigious and glamourous ceremony will be the opening event on May 6 2012.
The Swiss Television Award honours outstanding national achievement in television in the following categories: Film, Broadcast, Innovation and Personality. In addition, each year a ...
The awards for the 2011 Open
Doors co-production lab, that is organised with the support of the Swiss Agency
for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA) and the support of the City of Bellinzona, were announced on
Tuesday August 9.
Open Doors Awards cerermony, from left: Alka Raghuram, Shanker Raman, Signe Byrge Sorensen, Sourav Sarangi, Anup Singh, Johannes Rexin
The 2011 session was devoted to cinema from India. 12 projects...
About 30'000 spectators are expected in Fribourg from March 19 to 26, 2011 for the 25th FIFF edition. Twelve feature films from ten countries will be competing for the Festival's main award, the Regard d’Or. All films in competition are screened as Swiss premieres. The spectrum of films in competition ranges from Chinese box office hits (Aftershock by Feng Xiaogang) to auteur films from Iran (The House Under the Water by Sepideh Farsi). Many of the filmmakers will present their film in person ...
Isola Film Festival awarded film Taxiphone directed by Mohammed Soudani: a Swiss director originally from El-Chelif, Alergia that made more then 30 documentaries for Swiss Television RTSI. His directorial debut Waalo Fendo, Là où la terre gèle, gave him international recognition first time in 1997.
This time in Isola he presented his latest film Taxiphone , a film about Oliver and Elena, young Swiss ...
Concorso internazionale (International Competition)
The Jury
The official jury of the 63rd Festival del film Locarno:
President: Eric Khoo, Filmmaker (Singapore)
Golshifteh Farahani, Actress (Iran)
Melvil Poupaud, Actor (France)
Lionel Baier, Filmmaker (Switzerland)
Joshua Safdie, Filmmaker (USA)
Awarded the following prizes:
Pardo d'oro (Golden Leopard)
Grand Prize of the Festival, the City and Region of Locarno (90.000 chf to be shared
equall...
Moving into its final 5 days, the Locarno Film Festival, set in the beautiful mountain city in southern Switzerland, has announced its first set of awards for its 65th edition. The awards for the 2010 Open Doors Factory, the Festival’s co-production lab that is organised with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), were announced on Tuesday, August 10.
The 2010 session was devoted to cinema from Ce...
Out of 515 submissions, 110 programmes from 22 countries have been nominated for a Rose d'Or Award and have been announced yesterday evening at two simultaneous receptions at BAFTA in London and at the Festival Centre in Hotel Schweizerhof Lucerne. Broadcasters and production companies from 40 countries from five continents submitted their programmes into the competition. Here is the international breakdown of the nominees: Argentina (3), Australia (4), Belgium (2), Canada (7), Denmark (2), Egy...
National Film Festival for young people in Switzerland. Entries allowed from Swiss inhabitants or Swiss citizens living abroad, up to 25 (30, if film student) years. Max. film length 20 Minutes. More Infos in French and German on the website
The awards for the 2008 session of the "Open Doors Factory", the Locarno International Film Festival’s co-production lab that is organised with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) were announced on Wednesday August 13.The 2008 session was devoted to Latin American cinema. 12 projects, selected from 332 submissions, participated in the workshop that took place during the Festival, whose objective is to assist their directors and producers to find co-production pa...
Thursday, August 16--------As an adjunct to the announcement of the top prizes at the Locarno International Film Festival this past weekend (see previous story), the Festival announced the winners in its Open Doors initiative on August 8th. Open Doors is the Festival's co-production lab, which is organised with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The 2007 session was devoted to film projects from the Near and Middle East. Thirteen projects, selected fr...
