One heart and one cinema
Athina Rachel Tsangari and Dušan Makavejev (1932-2019) at the first Bildrausch in 2011
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)
Howe Gelb
Basel, let's hang out and play
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
After Sunset
Between Calexico and David Lynch: Acapulco Radio, Berlin's gods of cultivated Twang, at their first Swiss concert at the Bildrausch Salon
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
The film banquet
Our happy round table in 2014
The magic of a cinema night
A different kind of 3D projection
A total work of art
Peter Strickland rocks Bildrausch 2015 with his Sonic Catering Band
Pure poetry
Ruth Beckermann talks about her film The Dreamed Ones in 2016
Photo bomb
Beat Schneider, Jean Perret, Mani Haghighi, Christine Dollhofer, Nicole Reinhard, Albert Serra, Eugène Green (from left to right)
Souvenir
Bruno Ganz (1941-2019) presents The Party by Sally Potter in the International Competition in 2017
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
«You talkin' to me?»
Film karaoke on Theaterplatz
Challenging brilliance
Kim Ki-duk (1960-2020) presents his gently enraged spy thriller The Net (Geumul) in the International Competition
Passionate grace
The British directing legend Terence Davies (right) enchants Bildrausch in 2017
A grand prize with character
The Bildrausch Ring of Film Art
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
From Basel to the Oscars
RaMell Ross shows Hale County, This Morning, This Evening in the International Competition in 2018
The Honorary Award for Visionary Filmmaking
A gold ring honours special merit in auteur filmmaking and film art
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
Let's toast...
...to cinema and to friendship!
Cinema as a locus of truth
Documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi (right) at Thinking/Space
A Swiss filmmaking family
A class reunion at the special programme Joining Reni Mertens and Walter Marti in the Future
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