Costume designer wins top award at Solothurn Film Festival

Costume designer Anna van Brée has won the Prix d'Honneur [Honorary Prize] at the 2024 Solothurn Film Festival. The Belgian-Swiss national, who lives in Lausanne, works in both cinema and theatre. “With Anna van Brée, we are awarding a prize to a costume designer whose experience, filmography and skills make her the ideal ambassador for this essential profession,” said Niccolò Castelli, artistic director of the Solothurn Film Festival, on Thursday. Anna van Brée has designed costumes for a long list of productions. Two films are being shown at Solothurn this year: Back to Alexandria by Tamer Ruggli and The Love Stories of Liv S by Anna Luif. Her meeting with the Swiss film director Ursula Meier was decisive. She has worked with the Franco-Swiss director since her first film Home in 2008. Van Brée has collaborated on all her films, including L'enfant d'En Haut, Ondes de choc - Journal de ma tête and La ligne. +The Swiss arts outlook 2024: politics reclaims the centre stage...