The jury of the 4th Zurich Film Festival awarded the "Golden Eye" to the three winners of the competition series at the glamorous Closing Night on October 4, 2008 at the Kaufleuten Club in Zurich. The jury faced the exciting but demanding challenge to award three outstanding works out of 24 extraordinary films of upcoming filmmakers. The International Competition was endowed with a total prize money of 60'000 CHF.

The "Golden Eye Award" for Best Debut Fiction "For A Moment, Freedom" from Austrian direcot Arash T. Riahi . The film develops the story of Iranian refugees searching for freedom in the West, in a tragicomic narrative.

The International Competition awarded its Golden Eye for Best Feature Film to "Tulpan" by russian director Sergey Dvortsevoy (Germany/Switzerland/Kazakhstan /Poland). It's the story about mini and maxi life crisis in Kazakhstan told with a great sense of subtle humour. In Filmcoopi there could be found a supreme distribution company.

Juraj Lehotsky received the Golden Eye for Best Documentary Film with "Blind Loves". The Jury, culture entrepreneur Walter Hügli, Oscar® -nominated filmemaker und producer Christian Frei as well as producer Lorna Tee honored this nonconventional episodic artwork, which gives an insight into relationships of blind people, told in a sensitive and intimate manner elapsing borders between reality and phantasy.

For the secont time the reknown filmmagazin Variety offered a endowed prize, which was presented to "Moscow, Belgium" by belgium filmmaker Christophe Rompaey. It's about an in the beginning dysfunctional lovestory with an outstanding cast.

Also the number one of the audience was an Eastern European feel-good movie. Stephan Komandarev's melancholic and charming "The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around the Corner" tells the story of a young car crash survivor suffering from memory loss, who  together with his energetic grandfather starts a roadtrip to his roots in Bulgary.