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At the same time as audiences at the Royal Albert Hall are watching the world premiere of the 25th James Bond film No Time to Die, the movie will be part of the official line up for the 17th Zurich Film Festival.

The festival will also screen Daniel Craig’s previous four movies as 007.

“We are extremely pleased to be one of the first in the world to show our audience the most recent Bond adventure,” artistic director Christian Jungen said. “We fought for months to get this premiere and had to negotiate every last detail with the distribution company Universal. Never before has James Bond been in the official selection of a film festival. I am further pleased that the ZFF has succeeded in this coup as it sends out a powerful signal that highlights the importance of cinema. The industry has waited more eagerly for this movie than any other.”

“Year after year, the ZFF brings the glamour of Hollywood to Zurich and is a feast for all film lovers,” Emin Soysaler, managing director of Universal Pictures International’s Swiss operation, added. “In hardly any other country does the James Bond series stand for great cinema more than in this country, and traditionally Switzerland is thus one of the most important markets worldwide for the 007 adventures. Due to the pandemic, the theatrical release had to be postponed and now we are even more pleased to be able to present ‘No Time to Die’ to the Swiss audience at this year’s Zurich Film Festival. The wait has been worth it: Bond is back!”