“Home”, “Tulpan” and “Nomad’s Land” at festival in San Francisco
22.04.2009
Ursula Meier’s successful fiction film debut “Home” (Box Productions, Lausanne) and the fiction film “Tulpan” by Kazakh director Sergei Dvortsevoy (Swiss coproduction: Cobra Film) will be screened in the “New Directors” section at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23-May 7, 2009). The festival’s “New Directors” section is devoted to emerging talent. The documentary film “Nomad’s Land” by Gaël Métroz will also be screened at this festival on the West Coast in the US, which attracts an annual audience of more than 80,000. Ursula Meier and Francine Lusser, the producer of “Nomad’s Land”, will present their films personally at the festival in San Francisco.
Meier’s “Home”, which was honoured with three QUARTZ awards of the Swiss Film Prize 2009 in Lucerne on March 7, and Métroz’s “Nomad’s Land” have both been well received by audiences in Swiss cinemas: over 83,000 viewers have already seen “Home”, and over 32,000 have seen “Nomad’s Land”. “Tulpan” will be released in Swiss cinemas in May.
A diverse number of awards await the filmmakers in San Francisco. In 2007 the Swiss director Jeanne Waltz won the FIPRESCI Prize for “Pas Douce”, which was screened in the “New Directors” section.
Zurich, April 22, 2009
A diverse number of awards await the filmmakers in San Francisco. In 2007 the Swiss director Jeanne Waltz won the FIPRESCI Prize for “Pas Douce”, which was screened in the “New Directors” section.
Zurich, April 22, 2009