The 2014 Swiss Film Honorary Award will go to Alexander J. Seiler, one of the founding fathers of the “New Swiss Cinema” movement. Federal Councillor Alain Berset will present the activist filmmaker and producer with his “Quartz” trophy on 21 March during the official Swiss Film Award ceremony at the Schiffbau in Zurich.

The Federal Office of Culture will bestow the 2014 Swiss Film Honorary Award on writer and film producer Alexander J. Seiler, a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed "New Swiss Cinema" movement which emerged in the mid-1960s. The award recognises his important contribution to filmmaking as well as his outstanding achievements as a writer and journalist.

Principle photography in Sawfar (Lebanon) for «Mon Souffle» a fiction feature film by Jihane Chouaib. A coproduction by Paraiso (France)- Dschoint Ventschr (Switzerland)- Eklektik (Belgium). Associated producer in Lebanon is «Né à Beyrouth».
Leading parts by Golshifteh Farahani and Maximilien Seweryn.

Swiss crew members are Henri Maïkoff (sound), Peter Demmer (gaffer), Didier Lebel (key grip), Valentin Bärlocher (1st assistant camera) and Leticia Rochaix-Ortis (hair & make-up). Picture post production will be executed by Cinegrell Postproduction in Zürich.

The Abu Dhabi Film Festival has announced the second cycle of the Sanad Fund grant recipients for 2013, and eight Arab filmmakers will receive post-production and development grants for their projects. Among them is Samir with his documentary feature «Iraqi Odyssey» - receiving a postproduction grant.
Sanad awards $500,000 each year to Arab filmmakers in the development or post-production phase of their films. The winners, who were chosen out of 93 applicants, also attend co-production meetings designed to promote partnerships with the grantees and producers, sales agents, distributors and others involved in film.