Zurich Film Festival: ‘The American’ Director Anton Corbijn Named President of Jury

Anton Corbijn, the renowned Dutch photographer and film director (Control, The American, Life) will head up this year’s competition jury for the 2023 Zurich Film Festival.

Joining Corbijn on the Zurich jury are two-time Oscar-nominated producer Finola Dwyer (Brooklyn, An Education), French director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre (Mustang), Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen (Compartment No. 6), and VFX artist Bryce Nielsen (Roma, Iron Man 2). Together they will judge the competition line up at the 2023 ZFF, which runs September 28 to October 8, and present the best film Golden Eye honor, which comes with a CHF 25,000 ($27,400) cash prize.

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Malte Grunert, producer of 4-time Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front, will head up the jury for Zurich’s Focus sidebar, joined by Oscar-nominated producer Gabrielle Tana (Philomena); Katrin Renz, a producer on Margarethe von Trotta’s Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert; editor Heike Parplies (Toni Erdmann); and Swiss actor Sven Schelker (Der Kreis).

Two-time Oscar nominee Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo, The Cave) will head up the documentary section jury, joined by Romanian director Monica Lazurean-Gorgan (A Mere Breath), Swiss-Italian film editor Claudio Cea (Wilder, Mad Heidi), U.S. director Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack) and Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen (All That Breathes).

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