Monday Dec 16, 2019
* Zurich Film Festival 2019 *
First held in 2005, Zurich Film Festival established itself very quickly on national and international film festival scene. The formula for it success it's probably mix of an attractive location: international but small city of Zurich; great selection of movies and different programs/events like ZFF Masters, ZFF Talks, Zurich Summit and few more.
Two years ago I read the sentence in an industry booklet I received with my accreditation and this stayed with me as a logical reason behind Zurich Film Festival's success. Basically, the organizers agree on few basics for a successful film festival: "content is a king, collaboration is key and encounters among creative folks are essential". It is obvious that they are taking "these basics" seriously every year while they are developing festival further and most importantly, in the right direction.
The 15th edition of Zurich Film Festival attracted 117'000 visitors, 13'000 more visitors than last year. Like every year I had to heavily prioritize and choose wisely which movies I will see. Luckily, Zurich is a small town so it was not a big deal to run from one location to other, but because of my limited time I had to skip all the events and side happenings and focus only on the movies. Even though, to be honest, my most enjyoable moment of the festival is when I am sitting in the dark room of the cinema watching the movie. And as Gimme A Beat is focused on female related subjects, through my review of the Zurich Film Festival I explored *female factor* of the festival and therefore focused on two type of movies: movies made by female filmmakers and movies showcasing female life. The organizers used hashtags to mark the movies so finding the movies that I potentially liked and that fit my exploration was easy, I just followed #FemaleFilmmakers and #FemaleLife hashtags. I also used them in my reviews. And even though I saw tiny piece of the whole festival I was truly impressed with movie selection, great balance of different genres, aspiring filmmakers and (potential) blockbusters as well as strong women presence. In addition and as in all previous years, the organization was impeccable, especially media center that was always available and ready to take care of press needs.
Movies selection wise I've seen many movies and posted review of them on Gimme A Beat page. Just follow the search with hashtags #zff #zff2019 #gimmeabeat. In tonight's Gimme A Beat I will try to cover most of those movies again and in more details, or at least my favorite ones. You can also find them here or if searching with #zff #zff2019 #highlight #gimmeabeat
But first, in tonight's show I will be focusing on movie Adam, one of my highlights of Zurich Film Festival.
Director and writer Maryam Touzani created a masterpiece by using minimalistic approach of storytelling combined with beautiful photography, closeups and background noises of the busy town. She opens the door of Moroccan house and allows us to peek in and understand better the culture and women's position in this patriarchal society.
An hour before seeing the movie I had a pleasure to sit down with Maryam and talk about different topics: her love of storytelling and organic transition from journalist, screenwriter to director. We also talked about *Razzia*, movie that introduced me to Maryam few years ago as well as women's position in Moroccan society.Β
Adam is coming to Swiss cinemas on Thursday, 19th of December, make sure to check it out. In the meantime you can read my review of the movie here.
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To hear the interview withΒ Maryam, my impressions of Zurich Film Festival,Β more about Adam and other highlights movies I've seen or/and for a chance to win some giveaways in the true Xmas spirit ππ
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tune to Gimme A Beat (16.12.2019) tonight for ..
Zurich Film Festival 2019
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