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Keystone-SDA | Thursday, 12 September 2024
Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is awarded a Golden Eye at the Zurich Film Festival.
Source: KEYSTONE/EPA/MOHAMMED BADRA
Swedish Oscar winner Alicia Vikander will be awarded the Golden Eye at the 20th Zurich Film Festival (ZFF). The award recognizes her outstanding acting performance and versatility, the ZFF announced on Thursday.
Vikander, who became known through films such as Ex Machina, The Danish Girl and Tomb Raider, will accept the award in person on October 8, the press release continues. At the same time, the Swiss premiere of her new film The Assessment by director Fleur Fortuné will be shown.
“We are delighted that Alicia Vikander is returning to the ZFF for our 20th anniversary after she visited us in 2017. It was a great pleasure for me to meet her at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2023. On that occasion, I told her about our anniversary and mentioned how happy we would be to welcome her back to Zurich,” the festival’s artistic director, Christian Jungen, is quoted as saying.
In addition to Vikander, other prominent guests such as Richard Gere and Jude Law will also appear at the Zurich Film Festival. The latter will also be awarded a Golden Eye, as the ZFF has already announced. The political thriller “The Order” with Jude Law in the lead role will open this year’s anniversary festival. The ZFF will take place from October 3 to 13.
