{"id":123285,"date":"2026-08-31T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/123285\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:43:12","slug":"zurich-bolsters-position-as-awards-circuit-stop-off-with-gala-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/123285\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Bolsters Position As Awards Circuit Stop-Off With Gala Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Zurich<\/a> Film Festival has unveiled Bunker<\/a>, Ink<\/a>, Babies and Club Kid<\/a> as fresh additions to its gala program.<\/p>\n

\n\tLauren Miller Rogen\u2019s starry drama Babies, featuring Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Kate Berlant, Zach Cherry, Ed Helms, Ashley Park, Sharon Stone, David Strathairn in the cast, will make its European premiere at the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tBunker and Ink will arrive fresh from their world premieres in Venice and North American debuts in Toronto, while Club Kid enjoyed a buzzy launch in Cannes and will also play in TIFF.<\/p>\n

\n\tTheir arrival in the Swiss festival\u2019s gala program bolsters its position as an awards season stop-off.<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-English language awards season hopefuls in the gala lineup include Swedish director Alex Schulmann\u2019s drama Adult Supervision, starring Gustaf Skarsg\u00e5rd,\u00a0Fares Fares\u00a0and Linus Wahlgren as middle-aged fathers who chaperone their teenage daughters on a rowdy school trip<\/p>\n

\n\tThere will also be world premieres for German director Frauke Finsterwalder\u2019s mother and son tale Eurotrash, starring Barbara Sukowa and Alexander Fehling, as well as Albanian urban boxing drama Blood Money, starring rapper Noizy and Moritz Bleibtreu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe programme ranges from the promising Club Kid by Jordan Firstman to new works by acclaimed filmmakers such as Ali Asgari, whose latest film will premiere in competition in Venice,\u201d said Reta Guetg, Festival Director of the Zurich Film Festival of the gala lineup.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe films also feature major names in front of the camera, including Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Javier Bardem and John Turturro. With Adult Supervision, we are also presenting a film that is already being tipped as a potential Swedish Oscar contender. We are very much looking forward to celebrating these films with our audience at ZFF.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tZurich Gala Program <\/p>\n

\n\tBUNKER
Director: Florian Zeller
Cast: Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano, Patrick Schwarzenegger<\/p>\n

BABIES
Director: Lauren Miller Rogen
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Seth Rogen, Issa Rae, Dan Stevens, Kate Berlant, Zach Cherry, Ed Helms, Ashley Park, Sharon Stone, David Strathairn<\/p>\n

\n\tCLUB KID
Director: Jordan Firstman
Cast: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevigne, Diego Calva<\/p>\n

\n\tINK
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Jack O\u2019Connell, Guy Pearce, Claire Foy<\/p>\n

A BIT OF LIGHT
Director: Ali Asgari
Cast: Misagh Zareh, Sadaf Asgari, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Ramtin Daghigh, Mina Rahimzadeh<\/p>\n

\n\tTHE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK
Director: Noah Segan
Cast: John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany<\/p>\n

\n\tLES MIS\u00c9RABLES
Director: Fred Cavay\u00e9
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Tahar Rahim, Camille Cottin, Benjamin Lavernhe, No\u00e9mie Merlant, Vassili Schneider, Megan Northam, Marie Colomb<\/p>\n

\n\tBLOOD MONEY
World Premiere
Director: Enkelejd Lluca
Cast: Blerim Destani, Noizy (Rigels Rajku), Moritz Bleibtreu<\/p>\n

\n\tEUROTRASH
World Premiere
Director:\u00a0Frauke Finsterwalder
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Alexander Fehling, Luna Wedler, Stefan Kurt<\/p>\n

\n\tADULT SUPERVISION
Writer and Director: Alex Schulmann
Cast: Gustaf Skarsg\u00e5rd,\u00a0 Fares Fares\u00a0 Linus Wahlgren<\/p>\n

\n\tTHINK GOOD (SI TU PENSES BIEN)
Director: G\u00e9raldine Nakache
Cast: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider<\/p>\n

BACK TO BUENOS AIRES
International Premiere
Director\u00a0: Mario Bechis
Cast: Adriano Giannini, Ana Celentano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zurich Film Festival has unveiled Bunker, Ink, Babies and Club Kid as fresh additions to its gala…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[27810,60216,60298,51],"class_list":["post-123285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-bunker","tag-club-kid","tag-ink","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117191363968718657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285","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=123285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}