The Prix d'honneur prize of the 61st Solothurn Film Days, endowed with CHF10,000, is to be awarded to film journalist Michael Sennhauser, a leading figure in the field in German-speaking Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The award will be presented on January 22. Sennhauser has written about cinema, in particular Swiss cinema, for more than 30 years. "He has enthused a wide audience about Swiss cinema thanks to his knowledge, analytical acumen and passion for film," the film festival wrote. Taking early retirement from 2024, for 26 years, Sennhauser was film editor of Swiss public broadcaster's SRF 2 Kultur. During his career, he received the Prix Pathé (2010) and the Greulich Kulturpreis (2016). In parallel to his work at the Swiss-German radio station, Sennhauser was co-chairman of the Locarno Film Festival's Semaine de la critique and president of the Swiss Association of Film Journalists. Although retired, he remains active as a film ...
