Since the 2021 edition of the festival could only take place in a significantly reduced form due to Covid restrictions, visitors can expect a variety of new features this year, but above all a real festival feeling. The program has also been significantly expanded: 24 feature films will be shown over four days. More than half of them are Swiss cinema premieres.
Michel Frutig, festival director: “It is a particularly great pleasure to present the “Eye of the Beholder” award for the first time. Five films were selected by the jury for the Official Competition and one film of them is honored with the prize by the audience.”
The “Eye of the Beholder” award is worth CHF 5,000 and is presented to the director of the winning film. The jury was impressed by films from Germany, Austria, Hungary and the USA.
2022 BRUGGGORE Official Competition
- Alone withYou, USA, 2021, Emily Bennet & Justin Brooks
- Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, Germany, 2021, Kevin Kopacka
- Masking Treshold, Austria, 2021, Johannes Grenzfurthner
- Post Mortem, Hungary, 2020, Péter Bergendy
- When iConsume You, USA, 2021, Perry Blackshear
The Festival Jury2022 consists of Salomé Brozman (Brugggore Talent Scout), Alex Büche (CinéSwiss), Michel Frutig (Brugggore Festival Director), Selina Hangartner (Co-Editor-in-Chief Film Bulletin) and Daniel Steffen (Brugggore Program Director).
The festival will once again take place at Cinema Excelsior in Brugg. In addition to the Official Competition, BRUGGGORE plays a variety of international highlights that do not receive cinema coverage in Switzerland. The films include Crabs! , Goatling, Night Caller, Urubu, Offseason, After Blue and Hellbender. Horror enthusiasts will also be shown various classics. Quella villa accantoal cimitero (The House on the Cemetery Wall) by Italian cult director Lucio Fulci, the Swedish splatter classic Evil Ed or Friday the 13th Part III (exclusively in 3D) are among the highlights of the “Rotten Meat” retrospective. In addition, in the “Gutted Millennials” category, the series “New French Extremity” is continued with the film High Tension.
As a special highlight, the festival is showing the Taiwanese splatter horror film The Sadness, which will not have an official cinema release in Switzerland. The film caused a stir all over the world for its drastic brutality, but also for its innovative approach to the all-too-topical topic of “virus.” It is probably the most extreme film that will be shown at this year's BRUGGGORE — only to the most hardened viewers.
Advance sales have started: four-day festival passes cost CHF 111.-. As soon as the daily program has been published, day passes will then be available at different rates. At the only German-Swiss horror film festival, visitors can expect not only a spectacular program, but also exciting insights. The films in the Official Competition are announced exclusively and live by the directors.
