"Flesh and Fuel" Wins Golden Eye at Zurich Film Festival — SkimNews
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- "Flesh and Fuel" by Pierre Le Gall won the Golden Eye for best film at the 22nd Zurich Film Festival on Saturday, having world premiered at Cannes' Critics' Week
- Pete Muller's "Bucks Harbor" won the Golden Eye for best documentary after debuting at the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section, where it took the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
- Both competition categories are restricted to first, second, or third directorial works, and festival director Reta Guetg said the winners "show just how much courage and originality there is in filmmakers presenting one of their first works"
- "Flesh and Fuel" stars Alexis Manenti, a César winner for Most Promising Actor for "Les Misérables," and follows a lonely French truck driver whose routine is upended by a romance with a Polish truck driver
- Special mentions went to Mads Mengel's "The Guest" and Zou Jing's "A Girl Unknown," while the Audience Award went to Andrina Mračnikar's "Mila/Marija" and the Critics Jury Award to Heinz Bütler's "Ebjä! Adolf Wölfli"
- International directing heavyweights including Danny Boyle, Richard Linklater, Martin McDonagh, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jesse Eisenberg and Anton Corbijn attended, with honorary awards presented to Julianne Moore, Tom Hiddleston, Naomi Watts and John Turturro
Why it matters: By limiting its competition to directors making their first three features, the Zurich Film Festival is positioning itself as a discovery platform for emerging talent, and this year's Golden Eye winners — a Cannes Critics' Week debut and a Berlin Panorama prizewinner — suggest its selections are increasingly tracking films that also break through on the major festival circuit.
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