THE AWARD WINNERS OF THE 18TH ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL

This evening, the prizes of the 18th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) were presented during the Award Night at Zurich Opera House. The festival’s main awards were given in three competition categories: A Golden Eye goes to each of the films CASCADEUSES by Elena Avdija, LOS REYES DEL MUNDO by Laura Mora and SAM NOW by Reed Harkness.

F O C U S C O M P E T I T I O N
CASCADEUSES by Elena Avdija (Switzerland, France, 2022)

This category focusses on films from Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The winner of the Golden Eye in the category this year is CASCADEUSES by Elena Avdija.

*Elena Avdija nimmt das Goldene Auge für «Cascadeuses» entgegen. *Photo © Tim Hughes* / ZFF*

Special Mention: FOUDRE by Carmen Jaquier

Jury: Christine Vachon (jury president), Fred Baillif, Katharina Mückstein, Maria Fantastica Valmori, Roger Schawinski

F E A T U R E F I L M C O M P E T I T I O N

LOS REYES DEL MUNDO by Laura Mora
(Colombia, Spain, Norway, Luxembourg, Mexico, France, 2022)

The 18th Zurich Film Festival’s Golden Eye for Best Feature Film goes to LOS REYES DEL MUNDO by Laura Mora.

Special Mentions:
WAR PONY by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough
UNTIL TOMORROW / TA FARDA by Ali Asgari

Jury: Asghar Farhadi (jury president), Clio Barnard, Daniel Dreifuss, Petra Volpe, Piodor Gustafsson

D O C U M E N T A R Y C O M P E T I T I O N

SAM NOW by Reed Harkness (USA 2022)

The Golden Eye in the Documentary Film Competition category goes to SAM NOW by Reed Harkness.

Special Mentions:
THE NEW GREATNESS CASE by Anna Shishova
THE KILLING OF A JOURNALIST by Matt Sarnecki

Jury: Alexander Nanau (jury president), Atanas Georgiev, Joëlle Bertossa, Nina Numankadić, Sushmit Ghosh

Further prizes of the 18th Zurich Film Festival were awarded to:
ZFF for Kids – Jury Prize: LUCY IST JETZT GANGSTER by Till Endemann

The Little Golden Eye of the ZFF for Children section goes to the film LUCY IST JETZT GANGSTER from Germany / Netherlands.

Audience Award: BECOMING GIULIA by Laura Kaehr

The viewers also form a jury – among all the competition entries, people could vote for their favourite film via online voting. This year’s audience favourite is the Swiss film BECOMING GIULIA by Laura Kaehr, which was part of the Focus Competition.

ZFF for Kids – Audience Award: MY ROBOT BROTHER von Frederik Meldal Nørgaard
Emerging Swiss Talent Award (Critics‘ Prize): FOUDRE by Carmen Jaquier
Science Film Award: THE TERRITORY by Alex Pritz
Zurich Churches Film Prize: FOUDRE by Carmen Jaquier
Best International Film Music: Robert IJserinkhuijsen

The following honorary awards were given during the 18th ZFF:

A Tribute to … Award: Luca Guadagnino
Golden Icon Award: Sir Ben Kingsley
Career Achievement Award: Rachel Portman
Golden Eye Award: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Golden Eye Award: Eddie Redmayne
Game Changer Award: Michael Barker and Tom Bernard

The 18th Zurich Film Festival comes to a close this evening having attracted a record number of visitors. It recorded 137’000 entries – that’s 20’000 more than the pre-pandemic year of 2019. With that, the ZFF remains the largest film festival in Switzerland. Stars like Eddie Redmayne, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Liam Neeson were as delighted to come into contact with the public as directors like Luca Guadagnino, Mia Hansen-Løve and Kirill Serebrennikov. The surprising crowd-pleaser turned out to be the movie MAD HEIDI, for which all screenings sold out.

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THE AWARD WINNERS OF THE 18TH ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL

THE AWARD WINNERS OF THE 18TH ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL

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