Zurich Film Festival Gala Premières

The 9th Zurich Film Festival will have 29 Gala Premières.

Bellow you can find the complete list of films (all out of competition) and a few films not to be missed.

• RUSH Ron Howard USA
• ALL IS LOST J. C. Chandor USA
• AM HANG Markus Imboden Schweiz
• AMAZONIA Thierry Ragobert Frankreich
• C.O.G. Kyle Patrick Alvarez USA
• DABBA Ritesh Batra Indien
• DEVIL’S KNOT Atom Egoyan USA
• DIANA Oliver Hirschbiegel UK
• DON JON Joseph Gordon-Levitt USA
• EXIT MARRAKECH Caroline Link Deutschland
• FILTH Jon S. Baird UK
• GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón USA
• JOE David Gordon Green USA
• L’AMOUR EST UN CRIME PARFAIT Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu Frankreich
• LA VIE D’ADÈLE – CHAPITRES 1 ET 2 Abdellatif Kechiche Frankreich
• LE WEEK-END Roger Michell UK
• LIBERACE – TOO MUCH OF A GOOD
• THING IS WONDERFUL Steven Soderbergh USA
• ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE Jim Jarmusch UK
• PRISONERS Denis Villeneuve USA
• RED OBSESSION David Roach, Warwick Ross Australien
• SPIELTRIEB Gregor Schnitzler Deutschland
• THE ARMSTRONG LIE Alex Gibney USA
• THE IMMIGRANT James Gray USA
• THE RAILWAY MAN Jonathan Teplitzky Australien
• THE SPECTACULAR NOW James Ponsoldt USA
• THE WAY, WAY BACK Nat Faxon, Jim Rash USA
• TIAN ZHU DING Jia Zhang-Ke China
• TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM Morgan Neville USA
• WE ARE THE BEST! Lukas Moodysson Schweden

 

GRAVITY – Alfonso Cuarón

Science Fiction – USA/UK – 93 minutes

 

In his latest work, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón ventures into the infinite realm of deep space in a film that is already drawing comparison to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. In GRAVITY, Cuarón presents a production that pulls the audience into an extraordinary spectacle. The two astronauts Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) and Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), are on a space mission when a seemingly routine spacewalk turns into a disaster: The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Ryan and Matt completely alone, tethered to nothing but each and spiralling into complete blackness.

 

PRISONERS – Denis Villeneuve

Crime – USA – 153 minutes

 

DEVIL’S KNOT – Atom Egoyan 

Drama – USA – 114 minutes

 

Canadian-Armenian auteur filmmaker Atom Egoyan is renowned for his powerful and haunting film dramas. Loss and mourning form two key aspects of his œuvre – and also apply to his most recent work DEVIL’S KNOT. Based on true events, the story centres round the brutal murder of three children – these so-called Memphis Murders kept the USA holding its breath in 1993.

 

THE RAILWAY MAN – Jonathan Teplizky

Drama – Australian/UK – 116 minutes

THE RAILWAY MAN by Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky, is the screen adaptation of an autobiographical novel of the same name by Eric Lomax: During the Second World War, this Scottish officer (Colin Firth) is captured by the Japanese and sent to a prisoner of war camp, where he is forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, after more than 100 000 victims perished during the laying of its tracks.

 

JOE  – David Gordon Green

Drama USA 117 minutes

JOE tells the story of a rough ex-con (Nicolas Cage in a role diametrically opposed to his image), who befriends and protects 15-year-old Gary Jones (Tye Sheridan), the oldest child of a homeless family ruled by a drunk, worthless father. With the promise of salvation and the hope of a better life, the two try to find a way out of the miserable, wild and dirty world of small town Mississippi.

 

DIANA – Oliver Hirschbiegel

Biopic – UK – 113 minutes

Also highly anticipated is DIANA, Princess of Wales, played by Naomi Watts. Following the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles, Lady Di finds her great love in the heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews). When this relationship collapses following enormous media interest, Diana begins a new affair with Dodi Al-Fayed.

 

ALL IS LOST – J. C.Chandor
Thriller USA 106 minutes

The one-man odyssey ALL IS LOST depicts the thrilling adventure of an experienced sailor (Robert Redford) cruising the Indian Ocean in his sailboat. A spectacular fight for survival begins following a collision with a freight container. Despite his nautical skills and incredible will to survive, the skipper soon finds himself having to stare death in the eye.

 

LE WEEKEND – Roger Michell

Romantic film – UK – 93 minutes

LE WEEK-END is an accurate and humorous excursion into the nature of love, or more precisely: How a long-married British couple attempt to rekindle their love life. Played by Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, the two protagonists return to Paris for the first time since their honeymoon. There they bump into a former colleague (Jeff Goldblum) who turns their lives upside down.

 

Would you like to buy tickets?

From September 16th to October 6th

• Ticket booth at Paradeplatz  noon to 7:00 p.m.
• Cinema Corso  from 3:00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m
• ZFF  and starticket websites
• starticket ticket booth

 

From September 23rd to October 6th

• Ticket booths at Sihlcity (11.00 a.m. to beginning of last film)

From September 26th to October 6th:

• Festival Center at Sechseläutenplatz from 11.00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
• Arthouse Le Paris from 1:00 p.m. until start of last film
• Cinema Corso from noon until start of last film
• Filmpodium from 12.30 p.m. until start of last film

Source: ZFF press release and press dossier

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