‘Reinas’ lands top Swiss film prize for 2025

Reinas, directed by Klaudia Reynicke, was named as the best feature at the 2025 Swiss Film Awards in Geneva on Friday evening. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In December, Reinas fell out of the running for best international feature at the Oscars. But the coming-of-age drama has now won the prize of best feature at the Swiss Film Awards. The film tells the story of two girls who move with their mother from Lima to the US during political unrest in Peru in the early 1990s. The three leave their largely absent father behind. Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke, who lives in Lugano, drew on her own life story for the film. In another major category at the awards, Simon Baumann’s Wir Erben was unsurprisingly named best documentary film. In the film, Baumann, whose previous works include Image Problem (2012) and Zum Beispiel Suberg (2013) talks to his parents about a farm they want to leave to their children. The film is a discussion about money ...