Director Garth Davis and Harvey Weinstein to present the true life story in Zurich.

Garth Davis’ Lion, starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman, is to open the 12th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 22-Oct 2).

The film will receive its European premiere on Sept 22 at the festival, with director Garth Davis and exec producer Harvey Weinstein expected to attend.

Adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home, the film tells the true story of how a wrong train took a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home.

He was placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley (played by Kidman and Wenham).

Patel plays the older Saroo, haunted by memories of his childhood, who set out to find his lost family using Google Earth technology.

Davis makes his feature directorial debut, having previously co-directed mini-series Top Of The Lake with Jane Campion.

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