Numerous awards for Swiss films

17.11.2008

Tobias Nölle’s half-hour short film “René” won two awards at the 22nd Leeds International Film Festival (November 4-16, 2008): the “Grand Jury Prize” in the Best International Short Film category and the award for Best Short Film in the Fiction category. The jury of the 23rd Festival Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina (November 6-16) presented the “Silver Astor” for Best Actress to French actress Isabelle Huppert for her role in the film “Home”, Ursula Meier’s first fiction film for the cinema. The film “Tulpan” by the Kazakh director Sergei Dvortsevoy, (co-production: Cobra Film, Zurich) was honoured with the Special Prize for Best Director, amounting to 7,500 euros, as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury of the Signis and Interfilm awards at the 18th Festival of East European Cinema in Cottbus (November 11-16).