Klaudia Reynicke’s Reinas (Queens), a Peruvian-set duration drama about a household browsing political chaos, has actually won finest movie at the 2025 Swiss Movie Awards, provided in Geneva Friday night. The Swiss-Peruvian-Spanish coproduction premiered at Sundance in 2015 and won finest movie in the Kplus Generation kids’s movie sidebar of the Berlinale, along with the audience award at the Locarno Movie Celebration.
Set throughout a turbulent summer season in Lima in 1992, Reinas narrates the unstable reunion in between a dad and his 2 children. Throughout a series of sluggish summer season days, the household starts to grow closer even as the nation starts to break down as inflation skyrockets.
Reinas was Switzerland’s main entry for the Oscars and has actually been a global sales success, offering to more than 10 areas by means of world sales equip The Yellow Affair.
David Constantin and Dimitri Krebs shared the very best star award for their efficiencies in the criminal activity funny Tschugger– The Last Fall and duration drama The Traitor, respectively, while Laetitia Dosch was called finest starlet for her function in her directorial launching Pet Dog on Trial (Le Procès du Chien), which premiered in Cannes’ Un Particular Regard in 2015. (Kodi, the movie’s canine lead, won Cannes’ prominent Palm Pet dog for finest four-legged efficiency). Rachel Braunschweig won finest supporting function for her efficiency in Maria Brendle’s historical legal drama Friedas Fall
Simon Baumann’s We, the Inheritors took the very best documentary honor. The doc premiered in Locarno, where it won the Grand Prix of the Semaine de la Review sidebar. Samuel Patthey’s Voiceless won for finest animated movie.
Ramon Zürcher got 2 awards for his household drama The Sparrow in the Chimney, which likewise premiered at Locarno, winning finest movie script and finest sound style, sharing the latter with Peter von Siebenthal and Balthasar Jucker. Marcel Vaid was bestowed finest movie rating for Paradises of Diane,. from directors Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann, which had its opening night in Berlin’s Panorama area in 2015. Finest Cinematography went to Gabriel Sandru got for Simon Jaquemet’s sci-fi drama Electric Kid, while Kevin Schlosser took finest modifying for his deal with Claude Baechtold’s documentary Riverboom
Swiss director Barbet Schroeder and French starlet Bulle Ogier, 2 Nouvelle Vague legends, both got life time accomplishment awards for their effect on worldwide movie theater. Oliver Keller got an unique Swiss movie academy honor for his work as the stunt organizer on Tschugger– The Last Fall
2025 Swiss Movies Awards
Finest Function Movie
Reinas— Klaudia Reynicke (Alva Movie Sàrl, Britta Rindelaub, Thomas Reichlin)
Finest Documentary
We, the Inheritors— Simon Baumann (Balzli & & Fahrer GmbH, Dieter Fahrer)
Finest Brief Movie
Southern Bride-to-bes— Elena López Riera (Alina Movie Sàrl, Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney)
Finest Animated Movie
Voiceless— Samuel Patthey (DOK MOBILE SA, Mark Olexa)
Finest Movie Script
The Sparrow in the Chimney— Ramon Zürcher
Finest Starlet
Laetitia Dosch (Avril) in Pet Dog on Trial
Finest Star
David Constantin (Bax) in Tschugger– The Last Fall
Dimitri Krebs (Ernst Schrämli) in Traitor
Finest Supporting Function
Rachel Braunschweig (Erna Gmür) in Frieda’s Case
Finest Movie Rating
Paradises of Diane— Marcel Vaid
Finest Cinematography
Electric Kid— Gabriel Sandru
Finest Movie Modifying
Riverboom— Kevin Schlosser
Finest Noise
The Sparrow in the Chimney— Ramon Zürcher, Peter von Siebenthal, Balthasar Jucker
Finest Graduation Movie
Mama Dances— Mégane Brügger (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne)
Unique Academy Award
Oliver Keller, stunt organizer for Tschugger– The Last Fall
Swiss Movie Honorary Award
Barbet Schroeder and Bulle Ogier, for their life time accomplishments
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