Pink Apple

Pink Apple is the biggest gay & lesbian film festival in Switzerland and takes place every springtime in Zürich and Frauenfeld.

History

In 1997 the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Pink Apple was founded by a handful of film enthusiasts in Frauenfeld, a small city in the Canton of Thurgau in Eastern Switzerland. The Swiss ”Apple Canton“, also nicknamed ”Cider India“ because of its many apple trees, was the reason for its naming. Initially its aim was to promote the emancipation and acceptance of homosexuality in the provinces on the basis of a cultural activity. The festival was first held in 1998, showing ten films to a large crowd in the tiny Cinema Luna in Frauenfeld.

Pink Apple landed in

Zurich in the wake of the lesbian and gay EuroGames

held there in the year 2000. A programme with seven performances of seven films was very successful right from the start. Since then the festival has been growing continuously and the main focus is now in the "little big city" of Zurich thanks to the great public encouragement and rising demand for an annual gay and lesbian film programme. The opening of Pink Apple took place in Zurich for the first time in 2003.

In the meantime Pink Apple has become the largest lesbian and gay film festival in Switzerland. This year about 80 films are to be shown in 80 performances. The initial audience of 500 has increased more than tenfold to approximately 7,000 people in 2008. Nevertheless, the festival still takes place in its birthplace Frauenfeld as well, where a reduced programme is shown.

Pink Apple is based on a society and is an independent project. The members of the organizing committee (at present around twenty people) work on a voluntary basis.

Awards

In order to encourage film making with lesbian and gay topics, a short film competition was established in 2001. Ever since, the Pink Apple Award worth 2000 Swiss Francs has been presented every year by a jury consisting of film experts. Also since 2001, the audience itself determines the most popular feature or documentary film by vote, granting it the Pink Apple Audience Award. Since 2008 a separate prize each is given to the most popular feature and to the most popular documentary film.

Past winners

Pink Apple Festival Award

Pink Apple Short Film Award / Kurzfilmwettbewerb

2022: Egúngún (Masquerade), Olive Nwosu, Nigeria 2021
2022: Inabitável, Enock Carvalho & Matheus Farias, Brasilien 2022 (Special Mention)
2021: Nattrikken, Eirik Tveiten, Norwegen 2020
2021: Cwch Deilen, Efa Blosse-Mason, Grossbritannien 2020 (Special Mention)
2020: Hey You, Jared Watmuff, Grossbritannien 2019
2020: Min värld i dim, Jenifer Malmqvist, Schweden 2019 (Special Mention)
2019: Mrs McCutcheon, John Sheedy, Australien 2017
2019: Three Centimetres, Lara Zeidan, Grossbritannien, Libanon 2018 (Special Mention)
2018: Calamity, Séverine De Streyker & Maxime Feyers, Belgien 2017
2018: Malik, Nathan Carli, Frankreich 2018 (Special Mention)
2017: Salta, Marianne Amelinckx, Venezuela 2016
2016: Carina, Sandra Concepción Reynoso Estrada, Mexico 2015
2016: Hole, Martin Edralin, Kanada 2014 (Special Mention)
2015: Black is Blue, Cheryl Dunye, USA 2014
2015: L’autre femme, Marie KA, Senegal 2013 (Special Mention)
2014: Ce n'est pas un film de Cow-boys, Benjamin Parent, Frankreich 2012
2014: Ett sista farväl, Casper Andreas, Schweden 2013 (Special Mention)
2013: It's Consuming Me, Kai Stänicke, Deutschland 2012
2012: Taboulé, Richard Garcia, Spanien 2011
2011: Hammerhead, Sam Donovan, Grossbritannien 2009
2010: Almas perdidas, Julio de la Fuente, Spanien 2009
2009: The Island, Trevor Andersen, Kanada 2008
2008: No Bikini, Claudia Morgado Escanilla, Kanada 2007
2007: Airplanes, Jen Heck, USA 2006
2006: John and Michael, Shira Avni, Kanada 2004
2005: A Different War, Nadav Gal, Israel 2003
2004: Bar Talk, Cheryl Furjanic, USA 2002
2003: Snöchschtmol, Lawrence Grimm, Schweiz 2002
2002: They Still Smile, Irina Sizova, Ukraine 2002
2001: Kimberly, Bettina Disler, Schweiz/Australien 2000

Pink Apple Audience Award: Best Feature Film

2022: Nico, Eline Gehring, Deutschland 2021
2021: Été 85, François Ozon, Frankreich 2020
2020: Tu me manques, Rodrigo Bellot, Bolivien/USA 2019
2019: Tell It to the Bees, Annabel Jankel, Grossbritannien 2018
2018: Puoi baciare lo sposo, Alessandro Genovesi, Italien 2018
2017: In Between, Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel/Frankreich 2016
2016: Chez nous, Tim Oliehoek, Niederlande 2013
2015: While You Weren't Looking, Catherine Stewart, Südafrika 2015
2014: Azul y no tan Rosa, Miguel Ferrari, Venezuela 2012
2013: Rosie, Marcel Gisler, Schweiz 2012
2012: Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero, USA 2011
2011: Contracorriente, Javier Fuentes-Léon, Peru 2009
2010: The Big Gay Musical, Casper Andreas & Fred M. Caruso, USA 2009
2009: I Can't Think Straight, Shamim Sarif, Grossbritannien 2007
2008: XXY, Lucía Puenzo, Argentinien/Grossbritannien/Frankreich 2007

Pink Apple Audience Award: Best Documentary

2022: Nelly & Nadine, Magnus Gertten, Schweden/Belgien/Norwegen 2022
2021: De la cuisine au parlement – Edition 2021, Stéphane Goël, Schweiz 2021
2020: Uferfrauen, Barbara Wallbraun, Deutschland 2020
2019: Gay Chorus Deep South, David Charles Rodrigues, USA 2019
2018: Chavela, Catherine Gund & Daresha Kyi, USA 2017
2017: Strike A Pose, Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan, Niederlande/Belgien 2016
2016: She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Mary Dore, USA 2014
2015: My Child, Can Candan, Türkei 2013
2014: Kein Zickenfox, Kerstin Polte und Dagmar Jäger, Deutschland 2014
2013: Call Me Kuchu, Malika Zouhali-Worrall und Katherine Fairfax Wright, USA 2012
2012: Vito, Jeffrey Schwarz, USA 2011
2011: Due volte genitori, Claudio Cipelleti, Italien 2009
2010: Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement, Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska, USA 2009
2009: Zanzibar Soccer Queens, Florence Ayisi, Grossbritannien 2007
2008: Football Under Cover, Ayat Najafi & David Assmann, Deutschland 2008

Pink Apple Audience Award: Best Film

2007: Imagine Me and You, Ol Parker, Grossbritannien/Deutschland 2005
2006: Paper Dolls, Tomer Heymann, Israel/Schweiz 2005
2005: Beautiful Boxer, Ekachai Uekrongtham, Thailand 2003
2004: D.E.B.S., Angela Robinson, USA 2003
2003: Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House, Deborah Dickson, USA 2001
2002: La parade (Notre histoire), Lionel Baier, Schweiz 2001
2001: Trembling Before G-d, Sandi Sima Dubowski, USA/Israel 2000

External links

http://www.pinkapple.ch

History

Awards

Past winners

See also

External links