Monday, October 06, 2008

2008 Zurich Film Festival Award Winners


The fest will run from September 25th to October 5th and these are the films that will be screened in two of the competition sections.

Feature Films Competition

Boogie, Radu Muntean, Romania, 2008
Dr. Alemán, Tom Schreiber, Germany, 2008
Dunya & Desie, Dana Nechushtan, Netherlands, 2008
Jerusalema, Ralph Ziman, South Africa, 2008
La Sangre Brota (Blood Appears), Pablo Fendrik, Argentina, 2008
Svetate Goljam I Spansenie Debne Otvsjakade (The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner), Stephan Komandarev, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary and Slovenia, 2008 Winner of the Audience Award
Tausend Ozeane
(A Thousand Oceans), Luki Frieden, Switzerland and Luxembourg, 2008
The Wackness, Jonathan Levine, USA, 2008

Debut Films Competition

3 Días (Before the Fall), Javier Gutiérrez, Spain, 2008
Aandrijding in Moscou (Moscow, Belgium), Christophe van Rompaey, Belgium, 2008 Winner of New Talent Award
Ballast
, Lance Hammer, USA, 2008
Boy of Pigs, William Sten Olsson, USA, 2008
Ein Augenblick, Freiheit (For a Moment, Freedom), Arash T. Riahi, Austria and France, 2008 Winner of Best Debut Film
Manen Som Elsket Yngve
(The Man Who Loved Ingve), Stian Kristiansen, Norway, 2008
Sell Out!, Yeo Joon Han, Malaysia, 2008
Tulpan, Sergey Dvortsevoy, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Poland, 2008 Winner of Best Feature Film

The Golden Eye Award this year goes to Costa-Gavras and he is object of the 2008 Tribute with some of his films to be screened. The Golden Icon Award this year goes to Sylvester Stallone. To check all the sections go here.

To check all the award winners go here.

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