Culture & Entertainment
Here you will find articles about music, art, film festivals, theatre, traditions and entertainment.
A visit to the Zurich Opera House
The Zurich Opera House is celebrating this year its 120th anniversary. The first opera performed there was “Lohengrin”on October 1, 1891, a long …
Zurich Film Festival: jury decision making
How did the four juries decide on the winning films this year? Was it an easy decision? How did the jury members find the movies? I was happy to be at the jury …
And the winners are…
Closing and award ceremony at the Zurich Opera House: This weekend after 11 days and over 90 films the 7th Zurich Film Festival came to an end. On …
Roman Polanski comes to his award ceremony at the Zurich Film Festival
Roman Polanski picked up his lifetime achievement award on September 27th at the Zurich Film Festival, “two years exactly day for day” as he said, after …
Opening night at the Zurich Film Festival
Elegant, charming, joyful and entertaining VIPs on the green carpet:
First day of the Zurich Film Festival
That’s it in a few hours starts the International Film Festival in Zurich with the opening film “Contagion”. It is the first evening for …
Director Roman Polanski is coming to Zurich on Sept. 27th
Today the Zurich Film Festival announced in their website that Director Roman Polanski will be coming to Zurich next week. He will get the life achievement …
Let’s remember
I love history so here are some fascinating facts that I collected for the year of 2011: EGYPT 1871: the mummy of Ramses II was found with other mummies …
Zurich International Film Festival (ZFF): Sept. 22d – Oct. 2nd, 2011
Zurich is once again getting ready for its international film festival. Seven years ago, Switzerland started a new International film festival in Zurich …