Switzerland’s Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has unveiled the full programme for its 2020 edition, which is set to go ahead as a physical event from September 24 to October 4. Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series turns its attention to the trial of the ‘Mangrove 9’, Film to launch in early 2021 on Apple TV+. Colman, who stars in Netflix drama The Crown and won the best actress Oscar in 2019 for her performance in The Favourite, will also receive an honorary Golden Eye via a live stream. The festival will host the world premiere of her latest feature, Das Unwort. Screen International is the essential resource for the international film industry. This site uses cookies. Iryna Tsilyk, The Painter And The Thief (Nor)Dir. Fernanda Valadez, 76 Days (US)Dir. The feature film competition includes 14 titles that have proved festival highlights and award-winners throughout the year. Lili Horvát, Shorta (Den)Dir. Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga, The Earth Is Blue As An Orange (Ukr)Dir. Olivia Colman has been honoured with the Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival.The Oscar-winning actress has been chosen to receive the accolade for her role as … The Zurich Film Festival has added 12 gala premieres to its 2020 line-up, including several selected for Venice and Toronto. As previously announced, ZFF’s Gala strand will include Nomadland, The Courier, Regina King’s One Night In Miami and Venice opener The Ties. Screen International is the essential resource for the international film industry. ZFF said that US actor Johnny Depp would attend the festival as the producer of documentary Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan, directed by Julien Temple, which will play in the Gala strand. Heidi Ewing. Subscribe now for monthly editions, awards season weeklies, access to the Screen International archive and supplements including Stars of Tomorrow and World of Locations. The Zurich Film Festival is set to run as a physical event from September 24 to October 4. Marianne Hougen-Moraga, Fergus Grady, Noel Smyth, Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Philippa Lowthorpe. Eli Despres, Fanny Liatard, fbq('init', '591432127707990'); Julia Niemann, Marc Munden, The 16th edition of the festival will comprise 165 films, of which 23 are world premieres and more than half of the competition titles are directed by women. Zurich will also host the European premiere of The Courier, the cold war spy thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch that was first seen at Sundance in January. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? Hannah Schweier, Not Me: A Journey With Not Vital (Swi)Dir. The 16th Zurich festival, which runs Sept. 24 to Oct. 4, will give "carte blanche" to the Locarno, Nyon, Freiburg, Basel and Neuenburg festivals to screen a film … German actress Iris Berben was also set to receive an honorary award at the festival but accepted it today at the programme launch, as she will be filming in Greece and would need to quarantine in order to enter Zurich. Danielle Arbid, I Carry You With Me (US-Mex)Dir. Joshua Kriegman, The Zurich Film Festival presents the most promising new filmmakers from around the globe and promotes the exchange of ideas between established film workers, creative talent and the public.