2008 Zurich Film Festival 2008 Zurich Film Festival The third annual 2008 Zurich Film Festival ran from September 25 to October 5, 2008. Actor Peter Fonda will act as prexy of the feature film jury. The festival introduced a new section this year, Panorama D, dedicated to German-language film from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The showcase opened with the Nicolette Krebitz-directed psychological drama, "Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald" (The Heart Is a Dark Forest). Highlights of the festival included Toronto and Venice Film Festival hits such as the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading", and the psychological Iraq war thriller, "The Hurt Locker" directed
The Hurt Locker great experience to be there." For the film, Bigelow sought to immerse audiences "into something that was raw, immediate and visceral". Impressed with cinematographer Barry Ackroyd's work on "United 93" and "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," Bigelow invited him to work on her film. While the film was independently produced and filmed on a low budget, Bigelow used four Super 16 mm cameras to capture multiple perspectives, saying, "That's how we experience reality, by looking at the microcosm and the macrocosm simultaneously. The eye sees differently than the lens, but with multiple focal lengths and a muscular editorial style,