Two films with music by Pierre Funck got nominations at the 47th Solothurn Film Festival:

• Unter Wasser atmen – Das zweite Leben des Dr. Nils Jent by Stefan Muggli and Andri Hinnen got nominated for the “Prix de Soleure”; screenings on Thursday, 19 January 2012 at 8:30 pm in the cinema Landhaus and on Monday, 23 January 2012 at 9:00 pm in the cinema Canva.

• La Vuelta by Marius Portmann got nominated by SSA and SUISSIMAGE for the best animation film audience award. Screening on Saturday, 21 January 2012 at 2:00 pm, Reithalle Solothurn.

The film La Vuelta by Marius Portmann (music by Pierre Funck) has won the Award “Best Animation Film” at the Lucerne International Film Festival.

The documentary “Unter Wasser atmen – Das zweite Leben des Dr. Nils Jent” by Stefan Muggli and Andri Hinnen won the audience award at the Zurich Film Festival!

A further screening is scheduled for Saturday, 29 October, 12:15 noon, in the cinema Le Paris in Zurich.

The documentary feature “Unter Wasser atmen – Das zweite Leben des Dr. Nils Jent” by Stefan Muggli and Andri Hinnen (music by Pierre Funck) will be screened three times in public at the Zurich Film Festival:

Monday, 26 September, 8:15 pm, Corso 2 (public premiere)
Thursday 29 September, 2:45 pm, Corso 2
Sunday, 2 October, 6:45 pm, Corso 2
Details and tickets

The animation film De Hardcore-Schwiizer by Dustin Rees won the first prize in the audience award at the Aarau One Minute Film Festival 2011. Details here.

In the column “Vom Fach” of the latest monthly supplement “NZZ Folio” of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, there is a fictitious dialogue between film music composers, written by Pierre Funck. Read it here.

On May 5th, Phönix auf der Wolke by Yun-Long Song (music by Pierre Funck) has been given the 2011 documentary award of the Alexis Victor Thalberg Foundation. The film is going to be premiered on Sunday, May 8th at 12am at the cinema Riffraff in Zurich.

The films Ruth and Cappuccino by Tamer Ruggli (music by Pierre Funck) will be screened at the festival “Pink Apple“ on Thursday, May 5th, 6:30 pm, in the cinema Arthouse Movie in Zurich. Details here.

In the exhibition Beyond Bug-Eyed Monsters: Astrophysics, Biology and the Search for Life in the Universe (April 5th, 2011, till March 11th, 2012) by the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich, a 30-minute film with music by Pierre Funck will be shown in the “romantic lounge.”