Edi.19: These are the winners of the anniversary edition

20 years of Edi. The Swiss Commissioned and Commercial Film Award is under the patronage of the Federal Department of Home Affairs and organized by the Swissfilm Association. According to the organizers, outstanding works were submitted in the anniversary year, including 68 films for shortlist nominated and twelve were awarded an Edi. The winners of the Edi.19 were announced at the awards ceremony on November 7.

The award ceremony was all about the anniversary with the motto "20 Years Greatest Hits". In several blocks, the last 20 years of the now history-making award were looked back on and all the gold winners were honored on the oversized screen. On the occasion of the great anniversary, Federal Councillor Alain Berset, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs - who gave the Edi its name - did the honors and gave his usual rhetorically successful, charming speech.

Gold: Life is beautiful as long as nothing happens.

Light-footed, with a wink and a lot of attention to detail, a difficult subject is effectively conveyed. Every movement, every cut, every tone and every step is just right. For this accident-free performance, the jury awards the noblest product: the Gold-Edi.

• Film production: Stories
• Client: Suva, André Meier, Urs Schaad, Beat Enderlin 
• Agency: Wirz, Fernando Perez, Erasmo Palomba 
• Film producers: Yves Bollag, Meret Früh
• Director: Tobias Fueter 
• Camera: Pascal Walder
• Equipment, set design: Klaus Hartl
• Styling, make-up, costume: Emilie Fischer
• Editing: Beni Fueter, Alessandro Biffi 
• Visual effects: Lena Lohfink
• Music / Composition: Fabian Sturzenegger, Dean Montenegro Macleod
• Dubbing / Sound Design Luca Brügger 

Silver. Together against loneliness

Once again, the little ones provide the greatest emotions. This successful sequel convinced the jury with its touching storytelling, fantastic ideas, perfect execution and, last but not least, its attention to detail. This Christmas commercial not only gets under your skin, it also proves once again what great cinema Switzerland is capable of. That's silver.

• Film production: Stories
• Client: Federation of Migros Cooperatives, Désirée Strassmann 
• Agency: Wirz, Livio Dainese, Fernando Perez, Erasmo Palomba
• Film producers: Yves Bollag, Anna Fueter, Gustaf Richter 
• Idea / Concept: Livio Dainese, Fernando Perez
• Screenplay: Florian Siegrist 
• Director: Dorian&Daniel, Passion Pictures, Kyra&Constantin 
• Camera: Julian Hohndorf 
• Production Design: Urs Beuter
• Editing: Christina Conradi 
• Visual Effects: Anna Cunnington, Kyra&Constantin 
• Sound design: Gregor Rosenberger
• Music / Composition: Yessian Music

Bronze: Quöllfrisch Petite Fraîche

How do you sell an East Swiss beer with the tongue twister "Quöllfrisch" in French-speaking Switzerland? You don't even try to pronounce the name correctly and let a Romand speak the text, which turns the entire spot into a German-Swiss nonsense monologue. Staging and timing are à point. So much self-irony deserves bronze. Birrli was great, wasn't it?

• Film production: Stories
• Client: Locher Brewery, Aurèle Meyer
• Agency: KKMedia, Klaus Kappeler
• Film producers: Florian Nussbaumer, Yves Bollag 
• Idea / Concept: Michael Fueter, Tobias Fueter, Florian Nussbaumer
• Screenplay: Vincent Kucholl 
• Director: Flurin Giger 
• Camera: Silvan Giger 
• Styling, make-up, costume: Emilie Fischer, Hélène Crichton
• Equipment, set design: Mary Villars
• Editing: Flurin Giger, Silvan Giger
• Music / Composition: Adrian Frutiger 

Bronze: WOZ App

Designed to last exactly 15 seconds, the new app is advertised simply and efficiently in a single shot. This work was worth bronze to the jury.

• Film production: Tillo Spreng production company 
• Client: The Weekly, Claudia Gillardon
• Agency: Leo Burnett, Katja Metz 
• Film producer: Tillo Spreng
• Idea / Concept: Urs Schrepfer, Ilija Gautschi, Martin Stulz
• director, camera: Tillo Spreng 
• Editing: Tillo Spreng 
• Sound design: Jingle Jungle
• Programming: Finesse, Moritz Friess 

Gold: Invisible

As a complete work, incredibly surprising and coherent.
This film scores with a convincing concept, with great camera work, staging, art direction, styling, set design, lighting, and great locations - a great attention to detail is noticeable in the realization. In short, a great overall package. That gives gold.

• Film production: Shining Pictures
• Client: Samsung Corporate Affairs, Patrik Rosenberg, Martin Kathriner
• Agency: Jung von Matt/Limmat, Lorenz Clormann, Christoph Glaus, Dennis Lück
• Film producer: Stefan Bircher
• Idea / Concept: Ennio Cadau, Lorenz Clormann 
• director, screenplay: Marco Lutz
• Camera: Ralph Bätschmann
• Editing: Marko Strihic
• Visual effects: Slaughterhouse, Samuel Muff 
• Sound design: Jingle Jungle 

Gold: The truth about our CT teachings

An unexpectedly self-deprecating film from an industry that usually doesn't stand out with cheeky films. The director shows a lot of sensitivity in dealing with the young protagonists and stages them in an unadulterated way. Rarely has an apprenticeship been portrayed with so much charm. This is worth its weight in gold to the jury.

• Film production: Film Tannery
• Client: Zürcher Kantonalbank, Simon Baumann, Colin Bollier
• Film producer: Marike Löhr
• Idea / Concept: Balz Chen, Flavio Gerber 
• Screenplay: Balz Chen 
• Director: Flavio Gerber 
• Camera: Andreas Widmer, Michael Schwendinger 
• Editing: Alessandro Biffi 

Bronze: Series Swiss cheese is: trust, certainty, craftsmanship, quality 

A Swiss product that has already been sold to us cinematically a hundred times. Told in a film series that makes us listen closely one more time. Convincing craftsmanship and just as high quality as the product we all love. The campaign is convincing and for that the jury awards bronze.

• Film production: Plan.Net 
• Client: Switzerland Cheese Marketing, Martin Spahr, Vanessa Zingg
• Agency: Serviceplan Group Switzerland 
• Film producer: Balz Lendorff
• Idea / Concept: Balz Lendorff, Reeto von Gunten 
• director, camera, editor: Maximilian Lederer 
• Sound design: Maximilian Lederer

Silver: Professional films

A film entirely in the language of the target group and yet not chumming up. The professional reality is combined with the everyday world of young people in a refreshing way and with wit. Told with speed and a convincing suspense. For this the jury awards silver.

• Film production: Markenfilm Switzerland
• Client: Swiss-Liechtenstein Building Services Association (Suissetec), Martina Bieler 
• Agency: Erdmannpeisker, Gabriel Peisker, Patrick Fawer, Selina Helbling 
• Film producer: Uli Scheper
• Director: Stefan Künzler 
• Camera: Janos Menberg 
• Editing: Bela Adami 
• Visual effects: Leo Laguna

Gold: Series Clash: Ladies vs. Gents, Opera vs. Trap, Huntress vs. Collector 

Exciting and gripping from beginning to end, how the different worlds collide here. Beautifully filmed, very nicely realized with an impressive choice of protagonists. One wishes for more films like this. Gold for this series.

• Film production: Stories
• Client: Swisscom, Nathalie Maibach Simon Lanzi 
• Film producers: Florian Nussbaumer, Tobias Fueter, Angelique Ingold
• Idea / Concept: Tobias Fueter, Florian Nussbaumer, Yves Bollag, Michael Fueter, André Benker, Mariama Djité
• Sound design: Fabian Sturzenegger
• Visual effects: Markus Graf
• Ladies vs Gents
  • Director: Piet Baumgartner
  • Camera: Stefan Dux
  • Editing: Benjamin Fueter, Stefan Graf
• Opera vs Trap
  • Director: Tobias Bonfanti, David Bertschinger Karg
  • Camera: Jonas Steinbacher
  • Editing: Fabian Sturzenegger, Dennis Gnoni, Animals
  • Visual effects: Mario Miles
• Hunter vs. Gatherer
  • Director: Humbi Entress
  • Camera, Editing: Fabian Kimoto
  • Music: Gian Dolder

Fabian Kimoto: Clash, hunter vs. gatherer 

In this impressive film, the camera skillfully supports the various moods with the appropriate image - style. Despite the different image levels and image styles, the film forms an exciting unity. For this creative achievement there is an award for camera.

• Film production: Stories
• Client: Swisscom, Nathalie Maibach Simon Lanzi 
• Film producers: Florian Nussbaumer, Tobias Fueter, Angelique Ingold
• Idea / Concept: Tobias Fueter, Florian Nussbaumer, Yves Bollag, Michael Fueter, André Benker, Mariama Djité
• Sound design: Fabian Sturzenegger
• Visual effects: Markus Graf 
• Director: Humbi Entress
• Camera, Editing: Fabian Kimoto
• Music: Gian Dolder

Jeffrey Baumann: Real Master

It's funny how the individual protagonists get involved in this music film and perform their lyrics with a twinkle in their eyes. The track is worth a special Edi for music to the jury.

• Film production: Seed Audio-Visual Communication
• Client: ETH Zurich, University Communications, Rainer Borer, Simon Zogg, Andrea Lingk
• Film producers: Felix Courvoisier, Bastian Hertel
• Idea / Concept: Christoph Hess 
• Screenplay: Adrian Wisard, Christoph Hess 
• Director: Adrian Wisard 
• Camera: Roman Peritz 
• Editing: Milos May 
• Visual effects: Milos May, Adrian Wisard 
• Music / Sound Design: Jeffrey Baumann

Patrick Baumann: Casino

A fantastic world somewhere in the universe. A red-haired protagonist on the run. Inspired by Game of Thrones and other video games, this film is worthy of a Special Edi for Visual Effects from the jury.

• Film production: WirzFraefelPaal Productions
• Client: Swiss Casinos Services, Marc Baumann, Marco Zemp
• Agency: Peter Lesch
• Film producers: Levente Paal, Simone Krebs
• Director: Cello Schnyder
• Camera: Roli Schmid
• Styling: Dawn Cleis
• Equipment: Emilie Fischer
• Visual effects: Cloudscape, Patrick Baumann
• Sound recording / sound design: Tonstudios Z

Peter Beck,President of the Swissfilm Association, welcomes the audience (Photos: Thomas Häusermann).

Once again - for more than ten years - the event was moderated by Max Moor.

Bronze for Quöllfrisch Petite Fraîche.

Bronze for the WOZ trembler app and Leo Burnett.

Gold for the film tannery and the ZKB film "The truth about our KV apprenticeship".

Special Edi for music & sound design: Real Master by Seed for ETH.

The Special Edi for visual effects went to "Game of Swiss Casion" by WirzFraefelPaal.

Plan.Net receives bronze for the film from Switzerland Cheese Marketing.

Silver for the Migros Christmas gnome: inventor Livio Dainese said he had nothing to do with the film and was only here because there was free drinking.

The Swisscom series "Clash" won gold and the Special Edi Camera.

At Edi.19, the most awarded advertisers were also honored.

As every year, the anniversary Edi ended with the golden rain over all the winners of the evening.

Also in 2019 filled to capacity: The Edi. is one of the few industry events where you don't have a seat if you don't try to get one early enough (Photos: Thomas Häusermann/Advertising Week).

The winners of the evening (Photo: zVg/Swissfilm Association).