Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander will be honored at Zurich Film Festival with a Golden Eye Award “for her extraordinary and remarkable versatility”; and attend the Swiss premiere of her new film The Assessment by director Fleur Fortuné.
Zurich Film Festival
The Zurich Film Festival provides a platform for the most promising filmmakers from around the globe. It aims to promote exchange between emerging directors, successful film workers, the film industry and the general public. Every autumn, the ZFF presents the year’s greatest discoveries and most anticipated films.
Zurich Film Festival started in 2005 and takes place in Zurich, Switzerland
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Alicia Vikander to Receive Golden Eye Award + Premiere ‘The Assessment’ at Zurich Film Festival
Alicia Vikander (Julian Ungano)
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Jude Law’s ‘The Order’ to Open Zurich Film Festival
Jude Law in The Order © Michelle Faye The 20th Zurich Film Festival will open with director Justin Kurzel’s political thriller The Order starring and produced by Jude Law, with his company Riff Raff. On the opening night on October 3, the festival will also award Law a prestigious Golden Eye Award for his remarkable performance and career.
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Kate Winslet to Receive Golden Icon Award + Premiere ‘LEE’ at Zurich Film Festival
Kate Winslet © Frederic Auerbach Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet will be honored with the Golden Icon Award at Zurich Film Festival and present her new film LEE directed by Ellen Kuras, in which she stars as the war photographer Lee Miller, and acts as a co-producer.
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Mads Mikkelsen Receives Golden Eye Award + Screens ‘The Promised Land’ at Zurich Film Festival
Mads Mikkelsen in The Promised Land by Nikolaj Arcel Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, known for 007 Adventure Casino Royale, Rogue One: a Star Wars Story, Fantastic Beasts: the Secrets of Dumbledore, will receive the Golden Eye award at Zurich Film Festival and present his new film The Promised Land by Nikolaj Arcel.
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Jessica Chastain Receives Golden Icon Award and Premieres ‘Memory’ at Zurich Film Festival
Jessica Chastain © Giampaolo Sgura Academy Award-winner Jessica Chastain will be presented with the prestigious Golden Icon Award at the the Zurich Film Festival taking place September 28 to October 8. Alongside her director Michel Franco and co-star Peter Sarsgaard, Chastain will also present her new film, the romantic drama Memory.
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Peter Doherty Documentary World Premieres in Zurich Film Festival’s Sounds Section
Peter Doherty. Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin © Federation Studios English musician Peter Doherty will present the World Premiere of Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin, an intimate film portrait of his fascinating and tumultuous rock-star life in 19th Zurich Film Festival’s Sounds section.
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Nicolas Cage’s Dark Comedy ‘Dream Scenario’ to Open Zurich Film Festival
Nicolas Cage in Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario” Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy Dream Scenario starring Nicolas Cage will have its European Premiere as the opening film of the 19th Zurich Film Festival.
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Natalie Portman’s ‘May December,’ Anne Hathaway’s ‘Eileen’ Set for Zurich Film Festival
Eileen May December starring Natalie Portman and the International premiere of Eileen with Anne Hathaway, have been confirmed for the 2023 Zurich Film Festival.
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Diane Kruger to Receive Golden Eye Award + Premiere ‘Visions’ at Zurich Film Festival
Diane Kruger at 2022 Zurich Film Festival © Titin Emans Actress Diane Kruger will receive the Golden Eye at Zurich Film Festival for her “outstanding career and great versatility” and will present her most recent movie Visions by Yann Gozlan as an international premiere.
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2022 Zurich Film Festival Award: STUNTWOMEN, LOS REYES DEL MUNDO and SAM NOW Win Golden Eye Prizes
Cascadeuses (Stuntwomen) by Elena Avdija The 18th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) presented the main Golden Eye prizes in the three competition categories to Cascadeuses by Elena Avdija, Los Reyes del Mundo by Laura Mora Ortega and Sam Now by Reed Harkness.
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Sir Ben Kingsley to Receive Golden Icon Award + Premiere DALÍLAND at Zurich Film Festival
Sir Ben Kingsley in Dalíland © Rekha Garton and Marcel Zyskind British actor Sir Ben Kingsley will be honored at the 18th Zurich Film Festival with the Golden Icon Award and present the European premiere of his latest movie Dalíland, in which he portrays the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí. In addition, Sir Ben Kingsley will speak about his career in a ZFF Masters.
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Eddie Redmayne will Receive Golden Eye + Premiere THE GOOD NURSE at Zurich Film Festival
Eddie Redmayne with Jessica Chastain in THE GOOD NURSE © JoJo Whilden / Netflix Academy Award®-winner Eddie Redmayne will be awarded a Golden Eye for his career achievements at the 18th Zurich Film Festival taking place September 22 – October 2, 2022. Redmayne will receive the award prior to presenting the European premiere of Tobias Lindholm’s thriller The Good Nurse, in which he plays a nurse who poses a deadly threat to his patients. He will also participate in a ZFF Masters session.