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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 …

The last day of the 18th ZFF: The festival comes to an end today, Sunday, with android side-kicks, a heartbreaking childhood friendship and delicious Paella. 

This evening, the prizes of the 18th Zurich Film Festival 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.

Golden Eyes at the Award Night, wild dreams and the last Masters appearance on day 10 of the festival. 

Italian director and screenwriter Luca Guadagnino was honoured this evening with the A Tribute to... Award, the Zurich Film Festival's highest prize for an auteur filmmaker. The award was presented to Guadagnino at the gala premiere of his new film BONES AND ALL at the Corso cinema.

On the 9th day of the festival, we present the A Tribute To... Award to master director Luca Guadagnino, meet Til Schweiger for a chat, and dive into Mozart's «The Magic Flute». 

The Zurich Film Festival honoured the English composer Rachel Portman with the Career Achievement Award this evening at the Tonhalle Zurich. Afterwards, the winner of the 10th International Film Music Competition Robert IJserinkhuijsen was awarded a Golden Eye for "Best International Film Music". The award was presented to him by Portman, this year's jury president.

A Swiss thriller as a world premiere, big emotions with Til Schweiger and live film music at its best – Discover day 8 at ZFF! 

The Zurich Film Festival turns the spotlight on Switzerland's film capital: The Zurich Film Stroll – a tour along the value chain of the filmmaking business – took place yesterday. Companies opened their doors to offer interested visitors unique insights into the world of filmmaking. At the end of the day, guests from film and politics gathered together for the Zurich Film Night, where director Laura Kaehr joined Felix von Muralt and Stéphane Kuthy in …

The second week of the festival is well under way! Today, day 7, we take to the stage with popstar Machine Gun Kelly, embark on a race against time in Paris and take an intrepid look into the future.