Polanski to pick up Golden Eye at Zurich
There will be gala evenings with glitter and red carpets at the 5th Zurich Film Festival, from September 24-October 4 .
US actor Morgan Freeman will receive the Golden Icon Award and Roman Polanski, who is the subject of a retrospective, will be awarded the Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement (after Oliver Stone in 2007 and Costa-Gavras in 2008).
Besides the international documentary and feature competitions, this year sees the addition of the German-language features competition. Eight films will vie for the Grand Prize, including world premieres of Frieder Wittich’s 13 Semester (Germany); Carsten Ludwig and Jan-Christoph Glaser’s 66/67 (Germany); and Lutz Konermann’s Der Fürsorger (Switzerland).
In international competition, only one of the 13 features will be presented in world premiere – An Sun-Kyong’s A Blind River (Korea) – and three of the nine documentaries: Anita Blumer’s Buenos Dias, Seguimos en Guerra (“Hello, We Continue To Be At War”, Switzerland); Christoph Heller’s My Father. My Uncle (Germany); and The Sound After The Storm (Switzerland/Germany) by Patrik Soergel, Ryan Fenson-Hood and Sven O. Hill.
Meanwhile, the documentary Space Tourists by Christian Frei (War Photographer) will have a special gala screening for its world premiere.
The organisers have announced that directors Jan Kunen and Gérard Jugnot will be in attendance at the Swiss and international premiere of their films Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky [+see also:
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US actor Peter Fonda will also be in Zurich to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dennis Hopper’s legendary film Easy Rider.
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