PHOTO ALBUM

Magic moments, captured by our photographers 

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New Festival Trailer

Carte blanche to Radu Jude: The Romanian director makes a statement 

 

 

June 26, 2022

The Short Film Award goes to ... 

The Last Name of John Cage by Margaux Guillemard

 

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May 23, 2022

Heddy Honigmann
(1951-2022)

Bildrausch honors Heddy Honigmann, one of the great filmmakers of our time

 

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June 26, 2021

The Lucky Ticket

Kapr Code by Lucie Králová won the prize with number 13 

 

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Bildrausch Boulevard
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One heart and one cinema

Athina Rachel Tsangari and Dušan Makavejev (1932-2019) at the first Bildrausch in 2011

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Programmatic

The festival directors Beat Schneider (left) and Nicole Reinhard name a prize after their first jury member, the radical Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti (1951-2014, centre)

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Howe Gelb

Basel, let's hang out and play

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69 Hotel Rooms

In 2012, the filmmaker and author Michael Glawogger (1959-2014) invited us on an unforgettable voyage of discovery through his still unreleased book

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After Sunset

Between Calexico and David Lynch: Acapulco Radio, Berlin's gods of cultivated Twang, at their first Swiss concert at the Bildrausch Salon

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And the Bildrausch Ring of Film Art goes to...

British filmmaker Joanna Hogg reads the laudatory speech for Alejandro Jodorowsky and La danza de la realidad

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The film banquet

Our happy round table in 2014

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The magic of a cinema night

A different kind of 3D projection

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A total work of art

Peter Strickland rocks Bildrausch 2015 with his Sonic Catering Band

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Pure poetry

Ruth Beckermann talks about her film The Dreamed Ones in 2016

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Photo bomb

Beat Schneider, Jean Perret, Mani Haghighi, Christine Dollhofer, Nicole Reinhard, Albert Serra, Eugène Green (from left to right)

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Souvenir

Bruno Ganz (1941-2019) presents The Party by Sally Potter in the International Competition in 2017

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The Storyteller

Lav Diaz – seeker of truths, hero of slow cinema and winner of the Bildrausch Ring of Film Art in 2018 – answers questions from his fans

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«You talkin' to me?»

Film karaoke on Theaterplatz

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Challenging brilliance

Kim Ki-duk (1960-2020) presents his gently enraged spy thriller The Net (Geumul) in the International Competition

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Passionate grace

The British directing legend Terence Davies (right) enchants Bildrausch in 2017

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A grand prize with character

The Bildrausch Ring of Film Art

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About the unpredictability of life

"This is the first time I'm getting married to a film festival": Tereza Villaverde wins the Bildrausch Ring of Film Art in 2017 for Colo

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From Basel to the Oscars

RaMell Ross shows Hale County, This Morning, This Evening in the International Competition in 2018

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The Honorary Award for Visionary Filmmaking

A gold ring honours special merit in auteur filmmaking and film art

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A chronicler of the damned

Author and director Paul Schrader wears the Honorary Ring of Visionary Filmmaking for his transcendental as well as raging opus

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Let's toast...

...to cinema and to friendship!

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Cinema as a locus of truth

Documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi (right) at Thinking/Space

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A Swiss filmmaking family

A class reunion at the special programme Joining Reni Mertens and Walter Marti in the Future

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A special prize with attitude

Jolanda Gsponer (left, Liechti Filmproduktion) hands over the first Peter Liechti Prize to Aya Koretzky for A volta ao mundo quando tinhas 30 anos

"I don't do interviews, I make conversation."

We dedicate the Tribute 2022 to director Heddy Honigmann