Zurich Film Prize

The Zurich Film Prize (also known as the City of Zurich Film Prize ) is an award for special achievements in the field of independent filmmaking and audiovisual media, which is awarded annually by the City of Zurich .

The prize can be awarded to both films and filmmakers. The prerequisite is that the authors or producers of the film are based in the canton of Zurich or that the films are closely related to the canton of Zurich. Independent productions from the fields of feature, documentary, animation and experimental films that have been made for the cinema can be submitted. TV films are only permitted in exceptional cases; instructional, advertising, public relations and exercise films are generally excluded.

The jury is a five-person film commission, which consists of representatives of Zurich filmmaking, film critics, the presidential department (cultural department) and film cultural organizations.

Excellent films

From 2010

2019

• Feature film category: Le vent tourne (Director: Bettina Oberli )
• Documentary category: Immer und Ewig (Director: Fanny Bräuning)
• Short film category: Summerloch (Director: Moris Freiburghaus)

2018

• Chris the Swiss (Director: Anja Kofmel )
• Dene wos guet geit (Director: Cyril Schäublin )
• The runner (Director: Hannes Baumgartner)
• Genesis 2.0 (Director: Christian Frei )
• Eldorado (Director: Markus Imhoof )
• Glaubberg (Director: Thomas Imbach )
• I am gentrification. Confession of a Darkling (Director: Thomas Haemmerli )

2017

• The Congo Tribunal (Director: Milo Rau )
• The divine order (Director: Petra Volpe )
• Marija (Director: Michael Koch )
• Rakijada - Distillated Village Tales (Director: Nikola Ilić)
• Usgrächnet Gähwilers (Director: Martin Guggisberg)

2016

• Raving Iran (Director: Susanne Regina Meures )
• Too Close to Heaven (Director: Annina Furrer )
• Turning Life - How my father tried to hold onto happiness (Portrait of Joseph Scheidegger . Director: Eva Vitija )
• Europe, She Loves (Director: Jan Gassmann )
• Schellen-Ursli (Director: Xavier Koller )

2015

• Heimatland (Lisa Blatter, Gregor Frei, Jan Gassmann, Benny Jaberg, Carmen Jaquier, Michael Krummenacher, Jonas Meier, Tobias Nölle, Lionel Rupp, Mike Scheiwiller)
• Amateur Teens ( Niklaus Hilber )
• Iraqi Odyssey ( Samir )
• Above and Below ( Nicolas Steiner )

2014

• Electroboy ( Marcel Gisler )
• The goalie am ig ( Sabine Boss )

2013

• Father's Garden - The Love of My Parents ( Peter Liechti )
• Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (Sophie Huber)
• Rosie ( Marcel Gisler )

2012

• Virgin Tales ( Mirjam von Arx )
• Winter Thief (L'enfant d'en haut) ( Ursula Meier )
• More than Honey ( Markus Imhoof )
• Dredging (Corina Schwingruber)

2011

• La petite chambre (Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond)
• Hell (Tim Fehlbaum)
• Summer Games (Director: Rolando Colla )
• With the stomach through the wall (Anka Schmid)
• Day Is Done ( Thomas Imbach )
• Lorenz Merz (cameraman for the Summer Games )

2010

• Goodnight Nobody (Director: Jacqueline Zünd )
• Tannöd (Director: Bettina Oberli )
• Pizza Bethlehem (Director: Bruno Moll )
• For two (Director: Barbara Kulcsar )

2000-2009

2009

• The registrar (Director: Micha Lewinsky )
• Giulia's Disappearance (Director: Christoph Schaub )
• Going Against Fate (Director: Viviane Blumenschein )
• Uphill, downhill (Director: Hans Haldimann )
• Das Sum der Insekten (The Sound of Insects) (Director: Peter Liechti )
• Rocksteady - The Roots of Reggae (Director: Stascha Bader )

2008

• The Friend (Director: Micha Lewinsky )
• No More Smoke Signals (Director: Fanny Bräuning )
• Hidden Heart (Direction: Werner Schweizer , Cristina Karrer )
• On the line (Director: Reto Caffi )
• The Secret of Murk (Director: Sabine Boss )

2007

• Seven hollows and a corpse (Director: Thomas Haemmerli , Production: Mirjam von Arx )
• Bruno Manser - Fight for the Rainforest (Director: Christoph Kühn )
• Chrigu (Directors: Jan Gassmann , Christian Ziörjen )
• I was a Swiss Banker (Director: Thomas Imbach )

2006

• A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash ( Basil Gelpke , Ray McCormack )

2005

• Nicolas Bouvier, 22 Hospital Street ( Christoph Kühn )
• Cat Ball ( Veronika Minder )
• White Terror ( Daniel Schweizer )
• Terra incognita ( Peter Volkart )
• Chyenne ( Alexander Meier )
• Hansueli Schenkel for his many years of outstanding camera work

2004

• In the north wind ( Bettina Oberli )
• In love with it ( Peter Luisi )

2003

• Hans in Luck ( Peter Liechti )
• Stories from the forger ( Johannes Flütsch )

2002

• Journey of No Return ( Esen Işık )

2001

• Utopia Blues (Director: Stefan Haupt )
• Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Director: Thomas Imbach )
• Thelma (Director: Pierre-Alain Meier )

2000

• Summertime ( Anna Luif )

1990-1999

1999:

• The Patriarch's Shoe ( Bruno Moll )
• Marcel Hoehn

1997:

• The knowledge of healing ( Franz Reichle )
• Ghetto ( Jürg Hassler )

1996:

• Signer's suitcase ( Peter Liechti )
• Viktor Sidler

1994:

• Well Done ( Thomas Imbach )

1993:

• Sophie Taeuber-Arp ( Christoph Kühn )

1992:

• Pipilotti Rist

1990:

• LYNX ( Franz Reichle )
• Alexander J. Seiler

1980-1989

1989:

• Rob Gnant

1987:

• You me too ( Helmut Berger )

1987:

• What images, little angels, wander through your face? ( Juerg Hassler )
• The beautiful moment (Friedrich Kappeler)

1985:

• Mathias Gnädinger

1983:

• Killer from Florida (Klaus Schaffhauser)
• Fee Liechti

1982:

• Pio Corradi

1981:

• Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio ( Gertrud Pinkus )

1970-1979

1977:

• Josephson, stumbling block ( Jürg Hassler )
• Alexander J. Seiler
• The sudden loneliness of Konrad Steiner ( Kurt Gloor )

1975:

• Escape risk ( Markus Imhoof )

1973:

• Walo Lüond
• Bruno Spoerri

1972:

• Vernacular ( Markus Imhoof )

1971:

• Ormenis 199 † 69 ( Markus Imhoof )

1970:

• DDANACH ( Robert Cohen )
• Reni Mertens and Walter Marti

1960-1969

1968:

• Ernst A. Heiniger

1965:

• Alexander J. Seiler

1963:

• The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi ( Artur Brauner )

1959:

• Outpost of humanity ( Leopold Lindtberg )
• Emil Hegetschweiler

Before 1960

1958:

• It happened in broad daylight (Ladislao Vajda)
• Hedda Koppé

1956:

• The art of the Etruscans ( Franz Fassbind )

Controversial decisions

• Due to a decision by the Zurich Education Director Alfred Gilgen , Richard Dindo was refused an award for his film The shooting of the traitor Ernst S.
• The city president and councilor refused Kurt Gloor the award proposed by the jury for his film The Green Children .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/kultur/de/index/foerderung/film/zuercher_filmpreise.html
2. ↑ Regulations on Awards for Films: City Council Resolution of March 25, 1992, with amendments of June 28, 1995 and March 31, 2004 (PDF; 28 kB)
3. ↑ First Zurich Film Awards go to Oberli, Bräuning and Freiburghaus , Aargauer Zeitung, October 3, 2019
4. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2018 Press release from the Presidential Department of the City of Zurich
5. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2017 Press release from the Presidential Department of the City of Zurich
6. ↑ http://www.cadrage.info/?details=147
7. ↑ Zurich Film Prize for “Heimatland” , Tages-Anzeiger, November 24, 2015.
8. ↑ http://www.heimatland-film.ch/de/about
9. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2014 , press release of the Zurich City Council of November 25, 2014
10. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2013 , media release of the Zurich City Council of November 19, 2013
11. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2012 , media release by the Zurich City Council of November 28, 2012
12. ↑ Zurich Film Awards 2011 , media release of the Zurich City Council of November 11, 2011
13. ↑ http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/kultur/Deutsch/Foerderung/Filmfoerderung/Weiter%20Dokumente/Auslösungen%202010.pdf
14. ↑ http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/kultur/Deutsch/Foerderung/Filmfoerderung/Weiter%20Dokumente/Auslösungen_2009.pdf
15. ↑ http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/kultur/Deutsch/Foerderung/Filmfoerderung/Weiter%20Dokumente/Auslösungen%202008.pdf
16. ↑ Crew - Christoph Kühn, director ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/2146532645
18. ↑ Katzenball receives Zurich Film Prize. news.ch, October 29, 2005
19. ↑ http://koolfilm.de/BrunoManser/brunomanser_biografien.php4
20. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/1998976293
23. ↑ Happiness Is a Warm Gun at swissfilms.ch
24. ↑ Thelma at swissfilms.ch
25. ↑ http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/film_search/filmdetails/-/id_film/940926440
26. ↑ http://tcfilm.ch/home/wp-content/uploads/file/2013_PORTRAIT%20T&C%20Film_HOEHN.pdf
27. ↑ http://www.film.uzh.ch/bibliothek/sidler/bio.html
28. ↑ http://www.swissfilms.ch/de/information_publications/cine-portraits/-/downloadportraitpdf/333_Imbach_de.pdf , p. 3
29. ↑ http://koolfilm.de/BrunoManser/brunomanser_biografien.php4
30. ↑ ^{a b c} http://lexikon.ads.ch/edit/detail_a.php?id_autor=1666
31. ↑ http://www.film-schlumpf.ch/AUG/AUG.html
32. ↑ Walo Lüönd is dead , Tages-Anzeiger, June 27, 2012
33. ↑ Michael Gautier: Mertens, Reni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .