The director, screenwriter and producer Villi Hermann has been awarded this year's Swiss Film Honorary Award. Hermann has had a significant influence on Swiss film for 50 years, according to the Federal Office of Culture. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The award honours the work of an important filmmaker who has helped define the identity of Italian-language Swiss film, the Federal Office of Culture announced on Tuesday. His film work is characterised by courage, social commitment and artistic finesse. Villi Hermann's career as a filmmaker began in the 1970s. His films were shown at international film festivals in Cannes, Venice and the Berlinale in the 1970s and 1980s. Hermann was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno for his first feature film, San Gottardo. + Small country, deep pockets: how to make (and fund) films in Switzerland In 1981 he founded his own production company, Imagofilm Lugano, which increasingly supports film productions by ...
