Slovak director Tereza Nvotová’s Father has won the 21st Zurich Film Festival ’s Golden Eye for Best Film in the Swiss event’s main competition devoted to first, second and third features.

The drama follows a work-stressed father who forgetfully leaves his two-year-old daughter in a car all day in the middle of a heatwave.

The film originally world premiered in Venice’s Orizzonti and has since been selected as Slovakia ’s entry to the Best International Feature Film category of the 98th Academy Awards.

The jury was presided over by U.S. director and producer Reinaldo Marcus Green, with its members also including German actress Leonie Benesch, Italian producer Carlo Cresto-Dina, Iranian director and producer Ali Asgari, and film curator and cinema operator Nicole Reinhard.

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