Swiss Film Award 2025
Bulle Ogier and Barbet Schroeder receive the Honorary Award
18.03.2025
This Friday, March 21, the Swiss Film Awards will be presented in Geneva. This year's Honorary Award has already been announced. It goes to the French-Swiss artistic duo Bulle Ogier and Barbet Schroeder. The couple is among the most influential figures of the “Nouvelle Vague”.
The Honorary Award recognizes their lifetime achievement work and groundbreaking influence on the international film world. The Swiss-French actress Bulle Ogier launched her career in the theatre in the early 1960s before making her breakthrough on the big screen with L'AMOUR FOU. She went on to shine in the most important films of the “Nouvelle Vague”. Her long-time connection to Switzerland is also reflected in her artistic work. She made (Swiss) film history with outstanding roles such as Rosemonde in Alain Tanner's LA SALAMANDRE.
Barbet Schroeder is considered one of the most important Swiss directors internationally. His film career started off in the 1960s as an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer. At the age of 22 he founded his own production company Les Films du Losange, which produced important films of the Nouvelle Vague. Schroeder's international career has been crowned by an Oscar nomination (REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) and a César for Best Documentary (L'AVOCAT DE LA TERREUR). His latest films include the Swiss coproductions LE VÉNÉRABLE W. (2017) and RICARDO ET LA PEINTURE (2023).
Read the full article on the honorary award here (in German and French)
Nominations in 13 categories
The Swiss Film Awards 2025 will be presented in a total of 13 categories. All nominated films and people were announced at the Night of Nominations end of January. Five films each are in the running for the main awards:
Best Feature Film
- THE SPARROW IN THE CHIMNEY (DER SPATZ IM KAMIN) by Ramon Zürcher; (Zürcher Film GmbH, Silvan Zürcher)
- DOG ON TRIAL (LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN) by Laetitia Dosch; (Bande à part Films Sàrl, Agnieszka Ramu, Lionel Baier)
- PARADISES OF DIANE (LES PARADIS DE DIANE) by Jan Gassmann, Carmen Jaquier; (2:1 Film GmbH, Lisa Blatter, Jan Gassmann)
- QUEENS (REINAS) by Klaudia Reynicke; (Alva Film Sàrl, Britta Rindelaub, Thomas Reichlin)
- SAVAGES (SAUVAGES) by Claude Barras; (Nadasdy Film Sàrl, Nicolas Burlet)
Best Documentary Film
- THERE WAS NOTHING HERE BEFORE (AVANT IL N'Y AVAIT RIEN) by Yvann Yagchi; (maximage GmbH, Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler)
- E.1027 – EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA by Beatrice Minger, Christoph Schaub; (Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH, Philip Delaquis, Frank Matter)
- RIVERBOOM by Claude Baechtold; (Intermezzo Films SA, Katia Monla, Luc Peter)
- THE LANDSCAPE AND THE FURY by Nicole Vögele; (Beauvoir Films Sàrl, Aline Schmid)
- WE, THE INHERITORS (WIR ERBEN) by Simon Baumann; (Balzli & Fahrer GmbH, Dieter Fahrer)
Here’s an overview of all nominations
We are excited to find out who will take home the trophies and wish all the nominees a great awards ceremony!