ZFF sets an audience record in its anniversary year
Published: Sunday, Oct 13th 2024, 15:30
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The anniversary edition of the Zurich Film Festival has set a new audience record with 140,000 visitors. The festival in Zurich welcomed several well-known celebrities from the film industry such as Jude Law, Pamela Anderson, Richard Gere and Kate Winslet.
The mixture of film screenings, guests, events and a new festival center on Sechseläutenplatz made the 20th edition from 3 to 13 October an "unforgettable" experience, as the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) wrote in a press release on Sunday. "We have pulled off an anniversary edition that Zurich can be proud of," said Christian Jungen, artistic director of the ZFF.
The edition showed that the festival has an "outstanding international" reputation and a local population that is fully behind it, Jungen continued. According to its own information, the festival is the second largest film festival in the German-speaking world.
With the new festival center, the event has reached a "new dimension of professionalism and excellence", said Roger Crotti, President of the ZFF. "We have come to stay and redefine the standards."
The festival awarded two main prizes, one in the feature film category and one in the documentary film category. In the first category, director Rungano Nyni won with the comedy "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl". The second main prize went to Shiori Ito for the documentary "Black Box Diaries" about dealing with sexual violence in Japan. Both women received a Golden Eye as an award.
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