The feature film "Platzspitzbaby" by Pierre Monnard has been voted the best Swiss film of 2020 by the Swiss Association of Film Journalists. The movie is based on a book by Michelle Halbheer and chronicles a girl's love for her drug-addicted mother in Zurich in 1995. The young girl invents a fictional world to escape her mother's addiction. It was made on a budget of CHF3.1 million and managed to draw around 330,000 cinema fans across the country despite Covid-19 restrictions. In second place of the best Swiss films of 2020 was "Mare" by director Andrea Staka. The film tells the story of a mother of a family who lives next to an airport without ever having taken a plane. In third place was the film "Petite soeur". This feature film by Los Angeles-based directors Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond focuses on Lisa, a playwright who has stopped writing and is trying to get her twin brother, a famous actor who is seriously ill, back on stage. These three award-winning...
