• Awards & Jury

    The films presented at BILDRAUSCH are all worthy of awards in their own right. And yet film awards offer filmmakers financial support as well as the recognition they deserve. The Peter-Liechti-Wanderpreis and the short film prize are awarded by a jury. The public is invited to vote for their favourite.

    AWARDS FOR ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SCREENPLAY

    A tribute to having the courage to ‘go all out’
    The prize for artistic achievement is closely linked to the legacy of Swiss filmmaker and author Peter Liechti (1951–2014). A supporter from the beginning, he gave BILDRAUSCH his wholehearted backing, shaping the festival with his radical approach. The prize honours works that demonstrate exceptional narrative or visual courage – films that, in the spirit of Liechti, 'venture into the branches, far out into a realm where things can get really uncomfortable'.

    The prize money is CHF 1,500 and is presented as a challenge cup in the form of a reclining figure of the number eight, designed by Luzia Vogt.

    New for 2026: a focus on the origins of the vision
    Every great cinematic vision begins with the first written word. It is at the point where a vague idea becomes a concrete treatment or screenplay that the narrative's strength is established.
    For the first time, BILDRAUSCH 2026 will award a prize for an outstanding screenplay or treatment in the field of documentary film. By doing so, we are supporting the creative process and honouring scripts that excel on paper.

    This new cash prize for script development is endowed with CHF 1,500.

    SHORTS AWARD

    The short film award, affectionately known as SHORTS, honours the incomparable spirit of creativity, ingenuity and independence that inspires, moves and transforms Swiss short film. The SHORTS AWARD is endowed with CHF 1'000.–.

    AUDIENCE AWARD

    The Audience Award honours the most popular film of our BILDRAUSCH viewers. It honours an outstanding work by vote. The winning film receives CHF 1'000.– and will be shown again as a SPECIAL in the Stadtkino Basel programme after BILDRAUSCH.

    Jury Peter-Liechti-Wanderpreis

    Masha Chernaya

    Masha Chernaya

    Farewells, separations, new beginnings. These are the themes Masha has explored in her films to date. Young men on the cusp of adulthood bidding farewell to their youth, for example in FOR THE ABSENT LADY (2023). In IT RUNS IN MY BLOOD (2022), friends part ways at the end of the summer to return to their respective daily lives, and in KRIVOLUCHYE (2019), after a year apart, Andrej and Oksana seek answers to the question: why leave, why stay? In SHARDS (2024), Masha continued this exploration and won the 2026 Peter Liechti Award. Masha grew up in Tula, 200 kilometres south of Moscow. Her parents were writers and met at the Maxim Gorky Literary Institute, which Masha also attended later, after studying journalism at Lomonosov University and before graduating from the Dokdokdok School of Modern Photography.

    François Sculier

    François Sculier

    François lives in Paris. His directorial work as well as his work as an editor have led him all around Europe like Greece, Czech Republic, but also to Iran, to Burkina Faso, to Zanzibar, to Morocco. This gave him a better understanding of the diverse realities and complexities that make up the world.
    He edited several documentaries since the 90’s, recently among others SAVE OUR SOULS by Jean-Baptiste Bonnet (awards Nyon, Dei Popoli, Coimbra, Festival Jean Rouch , Amnesty Int…), THE KINGDOM OF KARTLI by Julien Pebrel and Tamar Kalandadze (best directing and best first picture IDFA), THE PACT OF ALEPPO by Karim Serjieh (Grand Prix Escale documentaire La Rochelle, Best first picture Jean Rouch Festival), «GARDERIE NOCTURNE by Moumouni Sanou (Best documentary feature Fespaco). He is also an editing trainer and consultant.

    Jury Shorts

    Myrien Barth

    Myrien Barth

    Myrien is a video artist and filmmaker who adopts a playful, diary-like and essayistic narrative style in her films, often drawing on family-related themes. In her experimental video works, she explores the aesthetics of her cinematic tools, takes an interest in the interstitial spaces between digital pixels, and investigates the spatial possibilities of video art. She has lived in Basel since autumn 2018 and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Video in Lucerne in 2014; since then, she has worked as a freelance filmmaker and has now founded her own film production company. Myrien also leads film workshops and, in collaboration with Bonny Orbit, produces commissioned films for art and culture.

    Jonas Jäggy

    Jonas Jäggy

    Jonas was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1981. He studied Visual Communication at the HGK Basel and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, graduating with a Diploma in Design (FH) in 2004. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance cinematographer, developing a deep appreciation for documentary film projects. In 2019, he completed a Master’s degree in Film at the ZHdK, further refining his narrative approach to cinematography. He is a member of the Swiss Cinematographers Society (SCS).

    Caroline Feder

    Caroline Feder

    Caroline, born in Basel, completed a bilingual Matura before going on to earn a diploma in photography at the CEPV in Vevey. Immediately afterwards, she completed a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Film at the Zurich University of the Arts, specialising in film editing and spending a semester abroad in New York. In 2023, she went on to complete an MA in Entertainment Producing at the ifs in Cologne. Caroline began her career at the advertising production company &Söhne in Zurich, where, among other things, she worked for several years as an associate producer on the first interactive feature film, LATE SHIFT. From 2017, she was employed as a teaching assistant in the Cast / Audiovisual Media department at ZHdK, where she has been working as a research assistant in teaching and research since 2023. In addition to video editing, format development and podcasting, she also teaches on the CREATORS’ ROOM minor and supervises diploma projects. For more than 12 years, Caroline has also worked as a freelance editor for documentary films and journalistic formats (SRF, NZZ Format, 3Sat, Arte and other productions).