A springboard for talented film music composers from around the globe, this year’s International Film Music Competition requires participants to score the award-winning short film ETIQUETA NEGRA (BLACK LABEL) by David Vergés. The call for entries to the 9th International Film Music Competition is now open.
The Zurich Film Festival and the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich AG join forces once again this year with Forum Filmmusik to organise the 9th Internation...
A springboard for talented film music composers from around the globe, this year’s International Film Music Competition requires participants to score the award-winning short film ETIQUETA NEGRA (BLACK LABEL) by David Vergés.
The Zurich Film Festival and the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich AG join forces once again this year with Forum Filmmusik to organise the 9th International Film Music Competition. Entrants to the competition are asked to create a new score of their o...
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ZFF is now open for submissions. Share your film or series with us and submit it via FilmFreeway. In our competition categories first, second and third directorial works compete for the Gold...
The Zurich Summit 2020 is the first conference since the lockdown where the leaders of the film industry meet again physically to discuss how the industry will continue in the Covid age. Never has the urge to exchange ideas been bigger. The boutique conference gathers a top-class line-up of international film producers, sales executives and creators in film, TV and entertainment as well as technology entrepreneurs and financiers. It offers a smart mix of knowledge transfer and ...
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The French filmmaker Maïwenn accepted the 16. Zurich Film Festival’s A Tribute To... Award this evening. The director, screenwriter and actress received the highest honour bestowed by the Zurich Film Festival on filmmakers for their contribution to film history.
The Zurich Film Festival’s (ZFF) most prestigious accolade for auteur filmmakers was presented to Maïwenn at the ...
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The 16th Zurich Film Festival honours the actress Olivia Colman with its Golden Eye. She excels alongside Anthony Hopkins in the drama THE FATHER.
The British Academy Award-winning actress plays the daughter of a dementia-suffering father who refuses to be helped in director Florian Zeller’s THE FATHER. The Zurich Film Festival honours the actress with a Golden Eye for her achievements. Colman, who is currently filming and unable to tr...
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The 16th Zurich Film Festival will award its most prestigious accolade to the French actress. The Academy Award-winner stands as much for engaged auteur cinema as she does for high-end Hollywood entertainment. She will present her most recent movie LA BONNE ÉPOUSE at the festival.
For the first time in its history, the Golden Icon Award goes to a ...
The Zurich Film Festival honours the French director, producer and actress for her contribution to the resurgence of auteur cinema, and screens her directorial works in a retrospective. Maïwenn receives the award on 01 October and presents her most recent film ADN (DNA).
Born in Paris, Maïwenn is one of the most exciting voices of contemporary French auteur cinema. Having begun her career as an actress at the beginning of the eighties, she soon appeared in such large-scale pr...
DONALD SUTHERLAND – ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL .
by Emmanuel Itier
Legendary actor Donald Sutherland just graced the premiere of his new film ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ at the Zurich film festival. Directed by Giuseppe Capotoni (“The Double Hour”) Mr. Sutherland is playing an enigmatic painter opposite rock Star Mick Jagger who is playing an ambitious art dealer. We caught up with Le Donald in between screenings at The Dolder Grand hotel, a majestic palace and a perfec...
The prestigious prize for film journalism will be awarded at this year’s 15th Zurich Film Festival. It will be presented to a film journalist for an outstanding review of a cinema film.
Funded by the cinema chain Pathé Schweiz and the distribution company Pathé Films, the Prix Pathé aims to promote excellence in film journalism, and has been honouring film critiques and film essays for this purpose since 2006. The award is endowed with a 10’000 Swiss fran...
In accordance with the long-term strategy of the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF), Co-founders Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri are planning for their succession after 15 years of operational leadership. The co-directors will be stepping down from their current posts at the beginning of 2020 but continue to work with the festival on a strategic level. Christian Jungen, chief cultural editor at “NZZ am Sonntag” will serve as the festival’s new Artistic Director. The search for th...
7Submission for the 15th Zurich Film Festival is open from February 15 to June 30, 2019!
The 15th Zurich Film Festival will take place from September 26 to October 6, 2019.
Films can be submitted via the platform Withoutabox.
COMPETITION INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
The Golden Eye endowed with a CHF 25'000 cash prize will be awarded in each of the two categories International Feature Film Competition and International Documentary Film Competition by two separate juries. The cash...
Internationally renowned German director Wim Wenders will receive the A Tribute to... Award on October 6. The award will include a retrospective of his work screened in his honour at the 14th Zurich Film Festival.
Wim Wenders will collect the 14th Zurich Film Festival’s A Tribute to... Award in person during the Award Night ceremony at Zurich Opera House on October 6. A retrospective of twelve of the German director’s most important films will be screen...
Submission for the 14th Zurich Film Festival is open from February 15 to June 30, 2018. The 14th ZFF takes place from September 27 – October 7, 2018. Films can be submitted via the platform Withoutabox.
Competition Categories
The competition comprises of the following three categories:
• International Feature Film Competition
• International Documentary Film Competition
&...
All eyes once again face Zurich from September 28 when the eleven-day Zurich Film Festival shows the most recent films from around the globe. There are emerging filmmakers in the competition categories, the most important and exciting productions of the year in the Gala Premieres section, more films than ever by female directors and a strong presence of Swiss cinema.
Festival Directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri unveiled the 13th Zurich Film Festival programme today and...
The American director, actor and writer Rob Reiner will receive the 13th Zurich Film Festival’s A Tribute to...Award at this year’s ZFF, which takes place from September 28 to October 8, 2017.
Reiner will be in Zurich to receive the prestigious award in person on Saturday September 30. ZFF will host the World Premiere of his latest film SHOCK AND AWE, which screens on the same evening with cast member James Marsden also in attendance. As well as dir...
Academy Award-winning actress turned producer Alicia Vikander is anything but your average household name.
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MOLLY’S GAME to screen as Gala Premiere
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Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) Directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri announced today that Aaron Sorkin will receive the Festival’s Career Achievement Award at this year’s Festival, which takes place from September 28 to October 8, 2017.
The Academy-Award® winning screenwriter and renowned playwright will receive the Award for his life’s work on October 4 at ...
Hungary has recently astounded the film world with its creative, innovative and superbly crafted cinema. The ZFF presents a comprehensive overview of Hungary’s cinematic output with 18 films by a thriving new generation of Hungarian filmmakers.
Hungarian cinema has a long history of creating great masters. During the 1970s, a period of cultural thaw in the then socialist state, Hungary was regarded as one of the most important film producing countries in the world. M...
Director Janus Metz Pedersen and actor Sverrir Gudnason to attend as honorary guests
Based on actual events, Danish director Janus Metz Pedersen’s tennis thriller BORG/McENROE will open the 13th Zurich Film Festival on September 28, 2017. Director Janus Metz Pedersen and Björn Borg-actor Sverrir Gudnason will attend as the Zurich Film Festival’s honorary guests.
Wimbledon, July 5, 1980: tennis pros Björn Borg and John McEnroe square up at the Wimbledon f...
In addition to the already confirmed Gala Premieres, the ZFF announces new films from Tonie Marshall, Destin Daniel Cretto, Amanda Sthers and Silvio Soldini.
EUPHORIA will receive its European premiere at the Zurich Film Festival on 29 September. Star and producer Alicia Vikander will attend, along with writer/director Lisa Langseth, cast members Charles Dance, Mark Stanley and fellow producers Charles Collier, Patrik Andersson and Frida Bargo.
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Just shy of three weeks before it is revealed at the media conference, this year's Zurich Film Festival programme is beginning to take shape. After announcing the inclusion of AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER with Al Gore and THE WIFE with Golden Icon Award recipient Glenn Close, the 13th Zurich Film Festival is now able to confirm further major productions screening in its Gala Premieres section.
Films from Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Mike White, Claire Denis, Sean ...
The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) announced today that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will attend and present AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER, the long awaited follow-up to AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, on Sunday October 8th at the Corso Cinema.
A decade after AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tire...
The 13th Zurich Film Festival is open for submissions!
The festival season officially starts with the Call for Entries, which began February 15th. Films can be submitted via the platform Withoutabox.
Competition categories
The competition comprises of the following three categories:
-International Feature Film Competition
-International Documentary Film Competition
-Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria (Feature Films and Documentary Films)
The Gold...
Dear filmmakers, the festival season officially starts with the Call for Entries, which began February 15th. Early Bird submissions end on March 31st! Films can be submitted via the platform Withoutabox.
Competition categories
The competition comprises of the following three categories:
International Feature Film Competition
International Documentary Film Competition
Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria (Feature Films and Documentary Films)
...
