Premio Raimondo Rezzonico to Komplizen Film

It is sufficient to scroll down the list of films produced over the years to understand how Komplizen Film is basically more than just a "production company". Obviously, the company name – "accomplices" – immediately evokes a noir-like, conspiratorial sensitivity. Like a Rivette plot hatched by cinema-lovers congregating around projects which try to think of cinema, to rewrite it and,  above all,  to repeat it among friends. Komplizen has worked in the shadows. Only the most attentive observers have not missed the element linking the works of very different filmmakers such as Radu Jude, Sonja Heiss, Miguel Gomes, Maren Ade, Nadav Lapid, Valeska Grisebach and many more – which is  a company that was founded in 1999 by Janine Jackowski and Maren Ade while they were still attending HFF in Munich (Jonas Dornbach has joined them in 2010). The idea is simple but brilliant: a true political, strategic and commercially successful intuition. Producing daring "local" cinema for an "international" audience. Female and male authors with a recognizable hand. With whom to weave a lasting and profitable relationship, allowing them their own poetics within a protective, complicit ecosystem. And investing in them. It is sufficient to think of a film like aKasha (2018) by Hajooj Kuka. Scrolling down the titles produced by Komplizen, we realize that the most important cinema over the past decade has been supported by them. Western (2017), A Fantastic Woman (2017), Toni Erdmann (2016), Arabian Nights (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016) and so on. The challenge launched by Skylines (2019-), a Netflix series, would seem to be the natural harbor for a company that has made thinking against dominant patterns its corporate and entrepreneurial mission.

Giona A. Nazzaro

The Best Independent Producer Award

The Premio Raimondo Rezzonico was established in 2002, in memory of the man who was the Festival's chairman for almost twenty years. This award, offered by the Municipality of Minusio, is attributed every year to an important independent producer, with the aim to highlight a key figure in film, and to salute their courage, their ability to take risk and support auteurs. 

Past winners:

• 2002 Paulo Branco
• 2003 Ruth Waldburger
• 2004 Karl Baumgartner
• 2005 Jeremy Thomas
• 2006 Agat Films
• 2007 Lita Stantic
• 2008 Christine Vachon
• 2009 Martine Marignac
• 2010 Menahem Golan
• 2011 Mike Medavoy
• 2012 Arnon Milchan
• 2013 Margaret Ménégoz
• 2014 Nansun Shi
• 2015 Office Kitano
• 2016 David Linde
• 2017 Michel Merkt 
• 2018 Ted Hope
• 2019 Komplizen Film Production