A documentary about musician Pete Doherty can have its world premiere at this 12 months’s Zurich Film Festival within the Sounds part.
Described as “an intimate movie portrait of his scandalous rockstar life,” “Peter Doherty — Stranger in My Own Skin” is helmed by Doherty’s spouse, Katia deVidas. Doherty will current the movie in-person, and likewise carry out reside following the documentary’s screening.
“The biopic chronicles the British rockstar who, after reaching the head of his profession, sinks into the depths of a critical drug habit,” ZFF creative director Christian Jungen mentioned in a press release. “His spouse, director and musician Katia deVidas, adopted the wild lifetime of the Libertines frontman at shut quarters for over 10 years. We’re trying ahead to welcoming them each to Zurich.”
The Sounds part of ZFF, which launched final 12 months, showcases function or documentary movies centered on musical themes or that function distinctive soundtracks. This 12 months’s program can even embody a screening of Alexi Bloom’s “Catching Fire — The Story of Anita Pallenberg,” which chronicles the lifetime of the German actress and member of the Rolling Stones’ interior circle through archival footage and a voiceover by Scarlett Johansson.
The part will maintain the worldwide premiere of Matthew Mishory’s “Fioretta,” which “follows Randy Schoenberg and his son Joey on a journey by Europe (and the centuries) as they reclaim and reunite the fractured shards of 500 years of household historical past,” in line with its official description. The screening will likely be accompanied by a efficiency of Arnold Schönberg’s string sextet “Verklärte Nacht” by an ensemble put collectively by Johannes Fleischmann. The worldwide premiere of “They Shot the Piano Player,” an animated function that follows a New York music journalist who “goes on a quest to uncover the reality behind the mysterious disappearance of younger Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr.”; Janis Pugh’s rooster manufacturing unit drama “Chuck Chuck Baby”; and U2 doc “Kiss the Future” full this system.
Zurich Film Festival takes place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.
