The contenders for the 2015 Swiss Film Award have been revealed on January 28th in Solothurn during the Nominations Night event by the director of the Federal Office of Culture Isabelle Chassot. Around 300 members of the Swiss Film Academy watched and rated the 88 films entered in the 11 Swiss Film Award categories. The results of the anonymous vote serve as a recommendation for the Swiss Film Award jury whose task it is to select the final nominees.Chrieg by Simon Jaquement and the Swiss submission to Oscar, Der Kreis (The Circle) by Stefan Haupt lead the pack with five nominations each. It is a pleasant surprise to find a film by Ursula Meier as her films are absolutely must be seen for me; here is a short film by the celebrated filmmaker of outstanding films like Home and Sister.
Best Feature Film Bouboule (Chubby), Bruno Deville
Chrieg, Simon Jaquemet
Der Kreis (The Circle), Stefan Haupt
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern, Stina Werenfels
Pause, Mathieu Urfer
Best Documentary Film
Electroboy, Marcel Gisler
Iraqi Odyssey, Samir
Tableau Noir, Yves Yersin
ThuleTuvalu, Matthias von Gunten
Yalom's Cure, Sabine Gisiger
Best Short Film
Discipline, Christophe M. Saber
En août (In August), Jenna Hasse
La petite leçon de cinéma: Le Documentaire, Jean‐Stéphane Bron
Petit Homme, Jean‐Guillaume Sonnier
Tišina mujo, Ursula Meier
Best Animated Film
Aubade, Mauro Carraro
Messages dans l'air, Isabelle Favez
Timber, Nils Hedinger
Best Screenplay
Antoine Jaccoud and Bruno Deville for Bouboule
Stefan Haupt, Christian Felix, Ivan Madeo and Urs Frey for Der Kreis (The Circle)
Stina Werenfels and Boris Treyer for Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern
Best Actress
Ursina Lardi in Unter der Haut
Sylvie Marinkovic in Cure: The Life of Another
Sabine Timoteo in Driften
Best Actor
Baptiste Gilliéron in Pause
Benjamin Lutzke in Chrieg
Sven Schelker in Der Kreis (The Circle)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role
Nils Althaus in Pause
Peter Jeckli in Der Kreis (The Circle)
Ella Rumpf in Chrieg
Best Film Score
Peter Scherer for Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern
Balduin for Electroboy
Mathieu Urfer, Marcin de Morsier, John Woolloff and Ariel Garcia for Pause
Balz Bachmann for Yalom's Cure
Best Cinematography
Lorenz Merz for Chrieg
Lukas Strebel for Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern
Pierre Mennel for ThuleTuvalu
Best Film Editing
Christof Schertenleib for Chrieg
Christoph Menzi for Der Kreis (The Circle)Thomas Bachmann for Electroboy
To read nominations at official site go here. For the Swiss Film Award, artist and sculptor Jean Mauboulès has designed a “Quartz” trophy which exudes understated elegance, clarity and precision.
The 18th awards ceremony will take place on March 13 in Geneva's Bâtiment des Forces Motrices. In the week leading up to the Swiss Film Award ceremony (9-15 March 2015), two cinemas in Zurich and Geneva will offer the general public the opportunity to watch the films nominated for an award and talk directly to film-makers about their work.