Awards 2023
Golden Wings Award 2023: Discussions animées entre entendeurs de voix by Tristan Thil
CHF 1.000 – sponsored by Swiss International Air Lines
Jury’s Statement
We are invited to take part in a meeting of people with schizophrenia.
The imaginative animation style touches on this topic with respect, humor and poetry. Thanks to the authentic testimonies, depicted in a sensitive way, a door opens into our understanding of these “hearers of voices”
Silver Wings CinéBrunch Regards d’Ailleurs Award: Oasis by Justine Martin
CHF 500 – sponsored by the cultural association CinéBrunch Regards d’Ailleurs
Jury’s Statement
The Jury of the CinéBrunch Regards d’Ailleurs awards the Silver Wings to the short film OASIS, by Justine Martin. This touching portrait of two brothers, at ages when difference can be difficult to come to terms with, subtly highlights the importance of solidarity, tenderness and complicity. Appropriate framing and dynamic editing reinforce the atmosphere of this fraternal haven.
Special Mention 2023: Violet Gave Willingly by Claire Sanford
Jury’s Statement
The director reaches out for the secrets hidden behind her mother’s smile. Shattering reflections emerge as their artistic practices challenge each other.
Jury 2023
Félicie Haymoz created the characters of the Guillaume Brothers’ feature film Max and Co. She also worked on the two animated films of Wes Anderson, creating the anthropomorphic bestiary of Fantastic Mr Fox and the humans of Isle of Dogs. More recently, she designed the characters from I Am Your Mother by Magdalena Osinska (Aardman Animation), one of the films in the second volume of the Star Wars Visions animated anthology. Félicie Haymoz translates her observations of fellow humans and the animal world into subtly detailed characters with singular personalities and attitudes, which become the raw material for sculptors and animators. She offers the directors characters that are dramatic or funny, undeniably moving: real actors to direct.
Simone Jenni-Pfingsttag (1986) holds a Master’s degree in literature from the University of Geneva and has dedicated her career to cinema. Since 2005, she has been managing cinemas and open air events in Geneva, Nyon and Rolle. From 2012 and for seven years, she was head of communication and partnerships for Visions du Réel in Nyon, the biggest international film festival in Switzerland dedicated to documentary films. She was then in charge of communication for the Basel-based film distributor cineworx. Simone was invited as a jury member for several festivals (Visions du Réel in 2023, 48 Hour Film Project Geneva and Lausanne 2019-2023 and FIFAN Nyon in 2017). Commissioned by the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and the association Base-Court in Lausanne, she has been responsible since 2017 for the coordination of the travelling short film festival Nuit du Court métrage in French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland. In parallel, Simone is also short film programmer and press officer of the FIFF in Fribourg since 2019, and she is a member of the Pro Short association.
Romano Riedo, lives and works in Freiburg. From an early age interested in literature and philosophy he dreams of becoming a writer. Instead he teaches himself film-photography and begins to tell stories in pictures. For several years he works as a freelance photo-journalist for the Swiss press. Many of his personal and large-scale reportage projects are shown in museum exhibitions and printed in book form. “Hinterland“, a black-and-white long-term reportage about alpine farming in Switzerland, was awarded the Swiss Press Photo Prize in the Reportage category in 2014. Man and his environment in the field of tension between tradition and modernity are still at the center of the multifaceted work. His actual exhibition “Estivages” at Musée Gruèrien accompanies Switzerland’s official application to have the alpine pasture season included on the UNESCO World Heritage List ends january 14th.