Zurich, Oct. 5 -- Slovak director Tereza Nvotova's 'Father' has won the 21st Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye for Best Film , reported Variety.

Showcased in the Feature Film Competition - dedicated to first, second and third feature films by emerging directors - the Slovak-Czech-Polish drama impressed jurors Reinaldo Marcus Green, Leonie Benesch, Carlo Cresto-Dina, Ali Asgari and Nicole Reinhard.

The jury also awarded special mentions to French director Alice Douard's Love Letters and Taiwanese-American filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou's Left-Handed Girl, which is Taiwan's 2026 Oscar entry.

"We were deeply moved by the craft and the humanity of this film," they stated, discussing the story of "an ordinary family facing extraordinary circumst...