Nicolas Wadimoff wins Solothurn Film Festival prize

The documentary film Qui vit encore by Nicolas Wadimoff has been awarded the Prix de Soleure at the Solothurn Film Festival. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Prix du Public went to the feature film Becaària by Erik Bernasconi. Qui vit encore uses a symbolic map of Gaza to tell the stories of nine refugees about their former lives, the loss of their loved ones and their attempts to find their way back to life. The "deeply humanistic" film has mastered an extremely difficult task through its form and content, the jury explained in its laudation. It creates understanding for the physical destruction and human sacrifice in a context far removed from the theatre of war. The film made its international premiere last summer at the Venice Film Festival and will be released in cinemas on February 5. At CHF60,000, the Prix de Soleure is the most highly endowed film prize in Switzerland. Three feature films and five documentaries were nominated for this prize ...