FESTIVAL 2026
JURY & PRIZES
Prices 2026
«As Aventuras do Angosat / The Adventures of Angosat» (Angola 2025)
Directed by: Marc Serena and Resem Verkron
2nd Jury Award CHF 1500
«Alien» (Austria 2024)
Directed by: Sybille Bauer-Zierfuss
Jury's Statements
The first prize goes to a film that captivates us with its imaginative power and creates a political-poetic space. Creative, long takes without cuts, brought to life by powerful acting and musical performances. Crip Afrofuturism as a reinvention and musical 50 years later... “An anthem to the outsiders,” “A toast to the unwanted,” and “We don’t need superhumans,” raps Men Ré - we, as the jury, agree and award the first prize to "As Aventuras do Angosat / The Adventures of Angosat".
The second prize goes to a film that impressed us with its collaborative, process-oriented, and playful approach. From a feminist-deconstructivist perspective, three friends set out in search of their own deeply personal film form and narratives. A neuro-queer satire that draws attention to the experiences of people on the autism spectrum through humor and provocation. The anger over exclusion and ableism unites us and the second prize goes to "Alien" by Sybille Bauer-Zierfuss.
Members of the Jury 2026
Eva Egermann
Eva Egermann is an artist living in Vienna. In her artistic and textual practice, she engages with activist movements, subcultures from various eras, and re-examines categories and political conditions of ability/disability and non-conforming bodies. In 2012, she launched the magazine project "Crip Magazine". Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions; most recently, she organized the "Anti Stigma" Crip Convention at Belvedere 21, Vienna. Together with filmmaker Cordula Thym, Eva Egermann produced a docu-fictional television show titled "C-TV (Wenn ich Dir sage, ich habe Dich gern …)", which – through a critical and humorous approach to representation – envisions a utopia of an inclusive film and media world. In 2023, they received the Diagonale Award for Innovative Cinema for it.
Foto: Marija Šabanović
Nora Longatti
Nora Longatti is an artist/filmmaker and mentor. She was born in Biel-Bienne in 1989 and studied film at écal in Lausanne, fine arts at UMPRUM in Prague, and transdisciplinarity at ZHdK Zurich. Her short films have received multiple international awards, including "Chute", which was honored with the Pardino d’Oro in Locarno in 2021, among others. Her artistic research practice engages in critical-poetic explorations of imagery and through open processes. Currently, she is developing her first feature film in collaboration with FLINTA care workers and mentors filmmakers and artists in the development of artistic moving image projects.
Foto: Eva Linder
Stanko Pavlica
Stanko Pavlica was born in Zurich in 1974. For over 20 years, he has worked as a filmmaker, cameraman, DP, and coach for video and film projects and for television. In 2003, he co-founded the deaf web TV channel FocusFive TV, which he led for 15 years. From 2001–05, he trained as a sign language teacher (HfH Zurich), and in 2008, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Filmmaking. In 2015, he founded his own video and film production company, Focus Film GmbH, and has since worked as an independent filmmaker.
Foto: Andrin Siebenhaar