Opening Thursday, 01 December 2022

Call to action: our graphic designer Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser (Photos: Michelle Ettlin)

HRFF president Katharina Morawek

Full house at Kosmos

Video message by Lionel Baier, director of opening film CONTINENTAL DRIFT (SOUTH)

HRFF president Sascha Lara Bleuler

Rebekka Fässler, co-director Kultur, Stadt Zürich

ROTZLOCH crew (ltr): protagonist Aminullah Habibi, producer Kaspar Kasics, director Maja Tschumi and Marcel Gschwend (music)

Talk after ROTZLOCH cinema premiere with director Maja Tschumi, protagonist Aminullah Habibi (right) and Dominic Schmid (WOZ)

Welcome desk

Yadolah Dodge, director of the Iranian Film Festival Zurich, and Sascha Lara Bleuler, director of HRFF Zurich

Sascha Lara Bleuler with Iranian activists Maryam Banihashemi and Talayeh Dehghani

Congolese screenwriter and director Maisha Maene next to his video installation at Kinoallee at Kosmos, part of this year's CALL TO ACTION

Festival team: Sascha Lara Bleuler, Josephine Tedder, Janine Bleuler, Lukas Keller

Kosmos entrance