New films from Steve McQueen, Sean Baker, Edward Berger and Gia Coppola will get the red carpet treatment at the 20th Zurich Film Festival as part of ZFF’s gala lineup.
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Steve McQueen ‘s Blitz , starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, which will open 2024’s BFI London Film Festival (LFF), will have its international premiere in Zurich. Berger’s hotly anticipated Conclave , a Vatican conspiracy thriller featuring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow, and the follow-up to the German director’s multi-Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front , will screen at ZFF following bows at Toronto and San Sebastian. And Baker’s Palme d’Or Winner Anora starring Mikey Madison in a star-making performance as a Brighton Beach sex worker who gets romantically entangled with the son of a Russian oligarch, will touch down at the Swiss festival after screening at TIFF.
Sönke Wortmann’s Der Spitzname , the third in his hit German comedy franchise adapted from the French feature Le prénom (2012), will have its world premiere in Zurich.
Among the other high-profile titles in Zurich’s gala lineup this year are Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl , starring Pamela Anderson as a Las Vegas showgirl forced to plan her future after her long-running show is abruptly canceled; the Jesse Eisenberg-directed A Real Pain , co-starring Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin; Josh Margolin’s seniors’ action film Thelma starring June Squibb; and Nick Hamm’s William Tell , an action-packed retelling of the Swiss folk tale, starring Claes Bang as the legendary mountain marksman.
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The ZFF gala program also includes several based-on-real-life dramas, including Tim Fehlbaum’s historical thriller September 5 , about the terrorist attacks on the 1972 Munich Olympics starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin; Michael Krummacher’s Landesverräter , the story of the first Swiss person to be sentenced to death for treason; and Icíar Bollaín’s Soy Nevenka , inspired by Nevenka Fernández, the Spanish economist who was the first woman to successfully convict a Spanish politician for sexual harassment in the workplace.
Zurich will unveil its full 2024 lineup Sept. 19. The 20th Zurich Film Festival runs Oct. 3-13.
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