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Flesh and Fuel

Zurich Film Festival selects winners for 2026 edition

French and US films take top prizes.

The AI panel at the Zurich Summit

AI concerns, consolidation and embracing risk: six talking points from the Zurich Summit

Health of the pre-sales market, need for social media, and future of the Oscars all under discussion.

Isabel

BFI London Film Festival title ‘Isabel’ acquired for UK-Ireland distribution

EXCLUSIVE: Film had world premiere in Panorama at Berlin, is produced by Rodrigo Teixeira.

'Love, After All'

‘Love, After All’: first trailer for Andreas Dresen’s Zurich Film Festival drama

EXCLUSIVE: Dresen’s feature follows a couple who have been married for 40 years.

Efe Cakarel

Mubi’s Efe Cakarel: “We are going to stay as far away from AI as possible when it comes to films”

”We want machines doing a great deal of work in our lives; we just don’t want them making the movies.”

Anna Kendrick, Max Loong

Anna Kendrick in Zurich on the challenge of acting angry in ‘Babies’

“I would ask to do three takes in a row where I’m angry,” said Kendrick in Zurich.

Tom Hiddleston

‘Tenzing’ star Tom Hiddleston yodels in Switzerland at Zurich opening

Hiddleston pays tribute to his wife, actress Zawe Ashton – “the sun rises and sets with her.”

Christian Jungen and Reta Guetg

Zurich film festival heads talk “tectonic shifts” in film and festival landscape

Christian Jungen and Reta Guetg on highlights of this year’s festival, which kicks off on September 24 with the European premiere of Everest drama Tenzing

Mila / Marija

Minerva and TVCO board WWII resistance drama ‘Mila/Marija’ ahead of Zurich premiere

EXCLUSIVE: Austrian director Andrina Mračnikar’s film centres on a partisan resistance group fighting the Nazis from the cover of the forests.

Rodrigo Teixeira

‘Paper Tiger’, ‘Furies’ producer Rodrigo Teixeira of RT Features talks new Brazilian, James Gray projects

EXCLUSIVE: Slate includes previously-announced TIFF selections Glaxo, Furies

'Eurotrash'

‘Eurotrash’, ‘Blood Money’ world premieres, ‘Ink’, ‘Bunker’ join Zurich lineup

Festival adds 12 Gala titles including Jordan Firstman’s Cannes hit ‘Club Kid’.

Tenzing

Zurich film festival unveils opening night film

Biopic recounts the story of Himalayan Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay.

'Love, After All'

Andreas Dresen’s Zurich title ‘Love, After All’ acquired for international sales

EXCLUSIVE: Film follows an elderly married couple facing the quiet turbulence of later life.

Martin McDonagh

Zurich Film Festival to honour Martin McDonagh

Writer and director will receive festival’s A Tribute To … Award during a gala premiere of his latest film ;Wild Horse Nine’.

Flesh And Fuel

‘Flesh And Fuel’ review: A French trucker finds love on the road in sensitive, mature debut

Alexis Manenti and Julian Swiezewski spark in the Zurich Golden Eye-winning feature

A Happy Family

‘A Happy Family’ review: A single mother struggles against an unforgiving system in unbalanced Swiss drama

Jan-Eric Mack’s feature debut features a strong performance from co-writer Anna Schinz

Black Church Bay

‘Black Church Bay’ review: Tom Cullen and Joe Locke impress in intense Welsh LGBTQ+ thriller

Rhys Marc Jones’s feature debut premieres in Zurich competition before playing Busan and London

The Ideas

‘The Ideas’ review: Six witty vignettes power director/star Fabian Stumm’s slice-of-life German anthology

Angela Winkler and Maren Eggert join an ensemble cast for Stumm’s follow-up to ‘Sad Jokes’