The documentary Die Anhörung by Lisa Gerig won Switzerland’s most prestigious film prize, worth CHF60,000 ($70,000). The film shows how the asylum hearings at the State Secretariat for Migration take place and how the interviewees experience them.
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The Audience Award, worth CHF20,000, was won by Echte Schweizer by Luka Popadić. The director, himself a captain in the Swiss army, uses the example of three Swiss officers with roots abroad and himself to explore questions of home, belonging and integration.
2720 by Basil Da Cunha (Best Short Film) and Crevette by Elina Huber, Noémi Knobil, Jill Vágner and Sven Bachmann (Best Animated Film) were each awarded CHF10,000.
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