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Swiss Film Prize «Quartz 2011» - the nominations Nominations 2011 Best Fiction Film – each nomination CHF 25,000 Cosa voglio di più Silvio Soldini / Vega Film Der Sandmann Peter Luisi / Spotlight Media Productions La petite chambre Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond / Vega Film Sennentuntschi Michael Steiner / Kontraproduktion Stationspiraten Michael Schaerer / Zodiac Pictures Best Documentary Film – each nomination CHF 25,000 Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) Nicolas Wadimoff / Akka Films Cleveland Versus Wallstreet Jean-Stéphane Bron / Saga Production GURU – Bhagwan, His Secretary & Sabine Gisiger, Beat Häner / His Bodyquard Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke Roman d’ados 2002-2008 Béatrice Bakhti / Troubadour Films Unser Garten Eden Mano Khalil / Mano Khalil Best Short Film – each nomination CHF 10,000 Die Praktikantin Peter Luisi / Spotlight Media Productions Le miroir Ramon & Pedro / IDIP Films Little Fighters Ivana Lalovic / ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Mak Géraldine Zosso / ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Yuri Lennon’s Landing On Alpha 46 Anthony Vouardoux / Oliwood Productions Best Animation Film – each nomination CHF 10,000 Feu sacré Zoltán Horváth / Nadasdy Film Heimatland Andrea Schneider, Loretta Arnold, Marius Portmann, Fabio Friedli / HSLU Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst Land Of The Heads Claude Barras, Cédric Louis / Hélium Films Miramare Michaela Müller / Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb Schlaf Claudius Gentinetta, Frank Braun / Gentinettafilm Best Screenplay – each nomination CHF 5,000 Silvio Soldini Cosa voglio di più (Vega Film) Peter Luisi Der Sandmann (Spotlight Media Productions) Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond La petite chambre (Vega Film) Best Actress – each nomination CHF 5,000 Isabelle Caillat in «All That Remains» by Pierre-Adrian Irlé, Valentin Rotelli (Jump Cut Production) Sabine Timoteo in «Sommervögel» by Paul Riniker (Hugofilm Productions) Linda Olsansky in «Zu zweit» by Barbara Kulcsar (Plan B Film) Best Actor – each nomination CHF 5,000 Fabian Krüger in «Der Sandmann» by Peter Luisi (Spotlight Media Productions) Andrea Zogg in «Sennentuntschi» by Michael Steiner (Kontraproduktion) Scherwin Amini in «Stationspiraten» by Michael Schaerer (Zodiac Pictures) 1 Best Performance in a Supporting Role – each nomination CHF 5,000 Carla Juri in «180°» by Cihan Inan (C-Films) Martin Hug in «How About Love» by Stefan Haupt (Triluna Film) Stefan Kurt in «Stationspiraten» by Michael Schaerer (Zodiac Pictures) Best Film Score – each nomination CHF 5,000 Great Garbo for «180°» by Cihan Inan (C-Films) Marcel Vaid for «Goodnight Nobody» by Jacqueline Zünd (DOCMINE Productions) Adrian Frutiger for «Sennentuntschi» by Michael Steiner (Kontraproduktion) 2 Nominations «Best Fiction Film» Cosa voglio di più (What More Do I Want) by Silvio Soldini Production: Vega Film Anna lives with Alessio. 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Festival des films du monde Montréal 2010, Festival del film Locarno 2010, Internationale Hofer Filmtage 2010, Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011 Sennentuntschi by Michael Steiner Production: Kontraproduktion The Swiss Alps in 1975: in a remote mountain village, a woman of wild beauty Bertastrasse 1 appears as if from nowhere. The village policeman Reusch is the only one who CH – 8003 Zürich openly approaches the mute woman in an attempt to find out who she is. It be- Phone +41/43/817 25 02 comes apparent that she has travelled from Höhenalp, where Alpine herdsmen do [email protected] unimaginable things to attract female company and thus combat their solitude. An www.kontra.ch affliction that would rather have remained undiscovered gradually comes to light. Zurich Film Festival 2010 Stationspiraten by Michael Schaerer Production: Zodiac Pictures The lives of five teenagers intersect in a hospital. 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Zurich Film Festival 2010 (Audience Award), Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2011 (Preis der Schülerjury) 3 Nominations «Best Documentary Film» Aisheen (Still Alive In Gaza) by Nicolas Wadimoff Production: Akka Films «Where's the ghost town? », asked the little boy to the theme park attendant. 4, rue des Marbriers «It's there, right there. But it has been bombed… Do you want to see it? » It is CH – 1204 Genève with these words that the film begins - an impressionist journey through a Phone +41/22/345 11 70 devastated Gaza after the war. The ghost town? Gaza is the ghost town. Fax +41/22/345 12 79 A.o. Internationales Forum des Jungen Films Berlin 2010 (Preis der Öku- [email protected] menischen Jury), Visions du Réel - Festival international de cinéma www.akkafilms.ch Nyon 2010 (Prix «Buyens-Chagoll»), Festival del film Locarno 2010 Cleveland Versus Wall Street by Jean-Stéphane Bron Production: Saga Production On January 11th, 2008, hired by the City of Cleveland, lawyer Josh Cohen Chemin de Montelly 46 and his team filed a lawsuit against 21 banks, which they held accountable for CH – 1007 Lausanne the wave of foreclosures that had left their city in ruins. Since then, the bank- Phone +41/21/311 95 70 ers on Wall Street have been fighting by with all available means to avoid Fax +41/21/311 95 72 going to court. The film is the story of that trial. A film about a trial that may [email protected] never be held but in which the facts, the participants and their testimonies are www.sagaproduction.ch all real. A trial for the sake of example, a universal fable about capitalism. A.o. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Cannes 2010, RIDM Rencontres interna- tionales du documentaire de Montréal 2010, Solothurn Film Festival 2011 (Prix de Soleure) GURU – Bhagwan, His Secretary & His Bodyguard by Sabine Gisiger and Beat Häner Production: Das Kollektiv für audiovisuel- At the beginning of the 1970s Hugh Milne listens to a cassette of the spiritual le Werke teacher, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and makes a trip from England to India in Zentralstrasse 156 a search to find himself. Sheela Patel is taken by her father to meet the char- CH – 8003 Zürich ismatic guru. Bhagwan urges his disciples to practice meditation and tantric Phone +41/43/811 50 50 sexuality. Hugh accompanies the rise of the guru while acting as his body- [email protected] guard. Sheela becomes the head of the model commune that springs to life in www.daskollektiv.ch the 1980s in the mountains of Oregon. The dream ends as a nightmare, for Hugh in a nervous breakdown and for Sheela in prison. But the journey is not yet over. A.o. Festival del film Locarno 2010, Visions du Réel - Festival interna- tional de cinéma Nyon, Competition 2010 Roman d’ados 2002-2008 by Béatrice Bakhti Production: Troubadour Films This collection of four documentary films explores the 7-year development of 12, route des Acacias seven teenagers from the age of twelve to eighteen years. It is an unprece- CH – 1227 Les Acacias dented immersion into the usually secret world of adolescence. With rare Phone +41/22/343 63 36 spontaneity, Aurélie, Jordann, Mélanie, Thys, Rachel, Xavier and Virginie Fax +41/22/343 65 14 share their reflections, joys, sorrows, hopes and disappointments with the [email protected] audience.