Richard Linklater will receive the Career Achievement Award at this year’s Zurich Film Festival.
The acclaimed American director, 65, is set to be presented with the Golden Eye in recognition of his contribution to cinema and will accept the honour in person on September 28 at Filmpodium Zürich, where the festival is also staging an extensive retrospective of his work in collaboration with Filmpodium Zürich and the Cinémathèque Suisse.