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SORA FILM
Sora Film GmbH, founded in 2018 by Swiss-Japanese film director Aya Domenig, is an independent film production company based in Zurich. The company is dedicated to creating author-driven documentaries that offer unique, personal, and deeply humanistic perspectives
on pressing issues of our time.
AYA DOMENIG
Producer & Director
Aya Domenig was born in Japan in 1972 and grew up in Switzerland. From 1992 until 2000 she studied social anthropology, film studies and japanology at the University of Zurich and from 2001 to 2005 film directing at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her graduation film «Haru Ichiban» (fiction, 22 min.) was screened at various international film festivals and was awarded the Prix Cinécinéma at the Premiers Plans Film Festival in Angers. In 2015 her feature length documentary «The Day the Sun Fell» premiered at the 68th edition of the Locarno International Filmfestival (Critics Week). The film was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2016 in two categories („Best Documentary Film“ and „Best Film Score“) and was awarded the Swiss Film Prize for „Best Film Score“. Aya Domenig is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and of the European Film Academy.
FILMS
Directed by Aya Domenig
ALS DIE SONNE VOM HIMMEL FIEL
(太陽が落ちた日 / The Day the Sun Fell)
Cinema documentary, 78 min.
https://www.thedaythesunfell.com/
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Written & directed by: Aya Domenig
Production: Ican Films
Awards, Nominations and Special Mentions:
- Nomination Swiss Film Prize 2016 for „Best Documentary Film“ and „Best Film Score“
- Winner Swiss Film Prize 2016 for „Best Film Score“
- Winner Green Image Award 2016, Green Image Film Festival (Tokyo)
- Special Mention, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Winner Prix Mario Ruspoli 2016, Jean Rouch Int. Film Festival (Paris)
- Winner Prix Anthropologie et Development Durable 2016, Jean Rouch Int. Film Festival (Paris)
- Winner Horizonte Filmpreis 2016, Fünf Seen Fimfestival
- Special Mention, Bolzano Filmfestival 2016
- Winner Fethi Kayaalp Grand Prize – 2nd Prize 2016, Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary
Festivals:
- 68. International Film Festival Locarno (Semaine de la Critique)
- Hiroshima International Film Festival 2015
- This Human World 2015
- Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken 2016 (documentary competition)
- Solothurner Filmtage 2016
- Mumbai International Film Festival 2016 (int. competition)
- DOCfeed Eindhoven 2016
- Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2016
- Green Image Film Festival (Tokyo) 2016
- Bolzano Filmfestival 2016
- 26. Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (documentary competition)
- 13th Göttingen int. Ethnographic Film Festival 2016
- International Film Festival Innsbruck 2016 (documentary competition)
- EDOC – Encuentros del Otro Cine, Ecuador 2016
- Seoul Human Rights Film Festival 2016
- Bonner Dokumentarfilmwoche 2017
- Fünf Seen Filmfestival 2016 (competition)
- BIFED 2016
- 35th Jean Rouch International Film Festival 2016
- Incheon Human Rights Film Festival 2016
- Salem Film Fest 2017
- Cairo International Womens Film Festival 2017
- 15th RAI Film Festival 2017 (Bristol)
- 9. Festival de cine invisible 2017
- Akamas Eco Film Festival 2017 (Cyprus)
- NAFA Film Festival 2017 (Denmark)
- NO NUKE Film Festival 2017 (Taiwan)
- 7th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival 2018 (Sao Paolo)
HARU ICHIBAN
(Spring Storm)
Written & directed by: Aya Domenig
Production: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Fiction short, 22 min., 35mm
Award:
- Prix Cinécinéma, Premier Plans, Festival d’Angers
Festivals:
- Locarno International Film Festival, Pardi di domani
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
- Solothurner Filmtage
- Stuttgarter Filmwinter
- FIPA Biarritz
- Premier Plans, Festival d’Angers
- International Shortfilm Festival Clermont-Ferrand
- Potsdam-Babelsberg, Worldwide Student Film Festival
- Festival du Film Court de Lille
- Poitiers International Film Schools Festival
- Mediawave
FILMS
directed by Mehdi Sahebi
MIRR
(The Field)
Written & directed by: Mehdi Sahebi
Production: Cinéma Copain Ltd.
Documentary, 90 min., DCP
Order DVD here: https://www.trigon-film.org/de/shop/DVD/Mirr
Festivals and Awards:
- Festival International Jean Rouch 2017, Paris, Prix Bartok und Prix monde en regards
- Provinziale 2016, Filmfest Eberswalde, Publikumspreis Dokumentarfilm
- Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards, Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Music
- International Filmfestival Innsbruck, International Documentary Competiton: Prize of the Town Innsbruck
- 24. Fernsehworkshop Entwicklungspolitik, Frankfurt, One-World-Film Price NRW
- 27. FILMKUNSTFEST Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Special Mention
- 14. Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg 2017
- Solothurner Filmtage 2017, Nomination Prix de Soleure 2017
- 10 th Cinéma Vérité Iran International Documentary Film Festival, (International Competition)
- Duisburger Filmwoche 2016 (world premiere), Förderpreis der Stadt Duisburg 2016
ZEIT DES ABSCHIEDS
Written & directed by: Mehdi Sahebi
Production: Cineworx
Documentary, 63 min., DCP
Awards:
- Locarno, Locarno Festival, Prize SRG SSR idée suisse, Semaine de la critique 2006
- Entrevues - Festival International du Film de Belfort, Prix du Public 2006
- Entrevues - Festival International du Film de Belfort, Grand Prix du Jury 2006
Festivals:
- Queer Lisboa 14 Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 17.09.2010 – 25.09.2010
- St. Petersburg, Film Festival Time To Live, 28.03.2008 – 06.04.2008
- Montreal, 10e RIDM Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, 08.11.2007 – 18.11.2007
- 3rd DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival New Zealand, 27.09.2007 – 21.11.2007
- Sao Paulo, 12th International Documentary Film Festival Sao Paulo, 22.03.2007 – 01.04.2007
- Mar del Plata, 22. Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, 08.03.2007 – 18.03.2007
- 21e Festival du film EntreVues Belfort, 25.11.2006 – 03.12.2006
- Locarno, 59. Festival internazionale del film Locarno, 02.08.2006 – 12.08.2006
