Awards for Swiss films in Spain and France
01.12.2008
The Kazakh film director Sergei Dvortsevoy was honoured with the award for Best Director at the 46th Annual Gijon International Film Festival (November 20-29, 2008) with his film “Tulpan”, a Swiss co-production. At the same time in Spain at the 50th International Short and Documentary Film Festival in Bilbao (November 21-29), the short film “Tierra Roja” by Cuban film director Heidi Hassan, who studied at the HEAD Film School in Geneva, was awarded the “Carabela de Plata” Prize, amounting to 4,000 euros. Moreover, two Swiss film productions celebrated their premieres at the 25th Festival du Film d’Autrans (November 26-30): Genovese filmmaker Eileen Hofer won the Grand Prize for Best Short Film, amounting to 4,500 euros for her film “Racines”; Jean-François Amiguet was awarded the “Preservation of the Environment” Film Prize with his short documentary film “L’eau qui fait tourner la roué”.
The film “Tulpan” (co-production: Cobra Film, Zurich) has been honoured with at least ten awards since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
The jury of the film festival in Autrans (France) provided the following statement when awarding the “Preservation of the Environment” Film Prize to Jean-François Amiguet’s film “L’eau qui fait tourner la roué”: “In it’s utter simplicity, the film is an extraordinary testimony of a man who lives in harmony with the perpetual cycle of water as the source of life and energy.”
Geneva/Zurich, December 1, 2008
The jury of the film festival in Autrans (France) provided the following statement when awarding the “Preservation of the Environment” Film Prize to Jean-François Amiguet’s film “L’eau qui fait tourner la roué”: “In it’s utter simplicity, the film is an extraordinary testimony of a man who lives in harmony with the perpetual cycle of water as the source of life and energy.”
Geneva/Zurich, December 1, 2008