Congratulations to Léa Favre, Julietta Korbel and Yan Ciszewski, ECAL Cinema Bachelor graduates, for winning the Swiss Film Award 2026 in the "Best Graduation Film" and the "Best Short Film" categories.
With Hunting (2024), Léa Favre
won the 2026 Swiss Film Award for Best Graduation Film. In this film, Léa sets out in search of a subject for a documentary. Just when she thinks she has finally caught her prey, the tables turn. The hunter becomes the hunted.
Hunting has already been won several prices, notably at the Krakow Film Festival, the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol, and the Animatou International Animation Film Festival in Geneva. This is the second consecutive year that a film by an ECAL graduate has won the Swiss Film Award for Best Graduation Film, following Maman danse (2024) by Mégane Brügger
.
The Swiss Film Award for Best Short Film 2026 goes to Yonne (2025), by Julietta Korbel
and Yan Ciszewski
. The film follows the journey of Jeanne and Eugénie, two young peasant sisters, as they navigate among the log drivers in the Morvan region in 1842.