{"id":120348,"date":"2026-08-25T15:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/120348\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:33:18","slug":"zurich-film-festival-sets-everest-biopic-tenzing-starring-tom-hiddleston-as-opening-night-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/120348\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich film festival sets Everest biopic \u2018Tenzing\u2019 starring Tom Hiddleston as opening night film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tenzing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1485764_screenshot20260825at15.31.16_3576_crop.jpg\"  loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"903\" height=\"602\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Zurich Film Festival has set Jennifer Peedom\u2019s Everest drama Tenzing as its opening film on September 24.<\/p>\n<p>The biopic recounts the story of Himalayan Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay who, alongside Edmund Hillary, became first to top Everest in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich will mark the European premiere for Tenzing, with stars Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe due to attend alongside Peedom.<\/p>\n<p>The Apple Original Film is understood to be world premiering at Telluride early next month, followed by its Canadian premiere at Toronto. After its Zurich premiere, the film will premiere in select theatres on October 9 and on Apple TV on October 16.<\/p>\n<p>Peedom\u2019s directing credits include the feature documentaries Solo, Sherpa, Mountain, River and Deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Zurich Film Festival CEO Christian Jungen said: \u201cThis year\u2019s ZFF motto is \u2018dream big.\u2019 Our breathtaking opening film Tenzing fits perfectly, because it shows how you can grow beyond yourself when you have a big dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zurich Film Festival has set Jennifer Peedom\u2019s Everest drama Tenzing as its opening film on September 24.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-120348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117156879363971204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}