«Dida», by Nikola Ilić & Corina Schwingruber Ilić, wins the award for best documentary.

What happens when roles reverse and parents suddenly become dependent on their children? A son is forced to confront this question along with the consequences of his migration. 

Lesia Kordonets wins the best director award in the documentary film category for «Pushing Boundaries».

With the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian Paralympic team loses their training base overnight. Will they succeed in qualifying for the upcoming Paralympics under these difficult circumstances?

Magaly Solier receives the award for best acting in «The Saint of the Impossible» by Marc Wilkins. 

Two undocumented delivery boys in New York want to be loved by a mysterious Croatian girl while their mother is persuaded by a pulp fiction novelist to start a burrito empire from their Bronx kitchen. The American Dream becomes a trap when deportation looms.

Photos by Pascale Weber

In March, «Radiograph of a Family» by Firouzeh Khosrovani will be shown at three different events. 

- 11.03.23, 18:00 Uhr, neues Kino Basel 
- 18.03.23, 12:00 Uhr, Hunters Point Community Library
- 02.04.23, 18:00 Uhr, Filmforum

A brief overview:

«The Shiite revolution creates tension within an Iranian family. The daughter of a secular father and a devout mother tells the story of how they all co-exist under one roof through photos and fictional conversations.»

"Ludwig Hohl, a film in fragments" was restored and digitized in 2013 by the Swiss Film Archive and has since been available in cinemas and via DVD box set. It is now also available on our VOD channel.

In 1982, Alexander Seiler published "Ludwig Hohl, a film in fragments and four texts" in his own publishing house Edition Zyklop Film AG, which contains not only the transcript of the film, but also numerous photos (from film projection) by Pio Corradi, who was the DOP on the film. This publication and conversations with Ludwig Hohl can be found at the SLA (Swiss Literary Archives) in Bern, where Alexander Seiler's estate as an author and journalist is located, while his cinematic oeuvre is archived at the Cinémathèque Suisse.

The SLA houses the rich estate of the writer Ludwig Hohl. Issue 36/2013 of "Quarto, Journal of the Swiss Literary Archives," entitled "Ludwig Hohl," featured as a prelude a text by Alexander J. Seiler, "Conversations with Ludwig Hohl (Geneva, July 21-23, 1978). A Reverberation in Fragments," from which we quote here:
"... Thus, in July 1978 - accompanied by my life and work partner June Kovach and our colleague Friedrich Kappeler - I arrived at Hohl's house not as an emissary of a television station, but as an old acquaintance, and the questions I asked him were not in the name of a curious public, but as a continuation of a conversation that had long since begun. (...) I let his speech run as freely as possible through detours, digressions and ellipses and limited myself, as it were, to punctuating them. (...)"

At Dschoint Ventschr, the DVD edition «Alexander J. Seiler. Twelve Films. A Selection. With a workshop discussion» can be ordered via email to office@dvfilm.ch.

For more information on the life and work of the writer Ludwig Hohl, please refer to the new website of the Ludwig Hohl Foundation: https://ludwighohl.ch/cms/

«Bagdá Vive em Mim» («Baghdad in My Shadow») by Samir has been showing in Brazilian cinemas since 2 September.

Since 30 September, the film will be shown in cinemas throughout Germany.

You can find an overview of the various premiere events here:

30. September 21 | 19.00 Uhr | Kino Metropol, Düsseldorf

01. Oktober 21 | 19.00 Uhr | Kino Casablanca, Nürnberg

02. Oktober 21 | 20.30 Uhr | Kino Friedrichsbau, Freiburg 

03. Oktober 21 | 17.45 Uhr | Kino Kamino, Reutlingen

03. Oktober 21 | 20.15 Uhr | Kino Arsenal, Tübigen

As of today, Stefanie Klemm's new film "Of Fish and Men" can be seen in the following Swiss cinemas: