WHAT IS THE LUX PRIZE? HOW ARE THE FILMS SELECTED? EN Established in 2007, the LUX Prize is a film The films are selected by a group of film prize awarded each year by the European industry professionals who form the Selection EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Parliament. The LUX Prize pursues two main Panel. The 3 films of the Official Competition objectives: spotlighting the public debate on are the outcome of the Selection Panel´s Europe, and supporting circulation of European choice. co-productions within the Union. Indeed, distribution is “the Achilles heel” of European The winner is decided by the Members of the cinema, weakened by language barriers. The European Parliament. This year, the award LUX Prize aims at overcoming them. ceremony takes place on 11 December. LUX The LUX Prize has helped European films to WHAT IS THE PUBLIC MENTION? reach a wider audience by supporting their subtitling and distribution. Through the LUX The Public Mention is the people‘s choice. It is PRIZE Prize, the European Parliament supports your opportunity to elect your favourite LUX film PROJECTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY cultural diversity and helps building bridges or theme. Simply visit our website luxprize.eu or among Europeans . Facebook page and express your point of view. The result of the Public Mention is announced WHAT ARE THE LUX FILM DAYS? at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in June/July 2014. It symbolically closes the current Screenings of the 3 films of the LUX Prize LUX Prize edition and gives way to the new one Official Competition across all 28 European - with the unveiling of the new 10 films of the countries during the same period of time - Official Selection 2014. autumn 2013. For the LUX Film Days, as part of the LUX Prize, the 3 films of the Competition are subtitled in the 24 official languages of the European Union. The aim is to share the diversity and richness of European cinema MIELE with the largest possible number of Europeans VALERIA GOLINO and to debate the topics depicted by the films of the LUX Prize 2013. The subjects raised by these films are common to all of us, they tell our stories, touch our emotions, and address issues we all face. LUX FILM DAYS WATCH, 3 FILMS | 24 LANGUAGES @luxprize 28 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DEBATE #luxprize WWW.LUXPRIZE.EU & VOTE WWW.LUXPRIZE.EU EP_LuxPrice_GENERIC&DAYSPOSTER_A3_EN_V01.indd 1 4/10/13 15:59 BECAUSE cinema has the 28 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES power to move us and culture EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT to enlighten us. BELGIQUE / BELGIË LATVIJA LUX LUX LUX BECAUSE cinema and culture BRUXELLES / BRUSSEL RĪGA PRIZE PRIZE PRIZE are ideal instruments to discover БЪЛГАРИЯ LIETUVA PROJECTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY PROJECTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY PROJECTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY our common background as СОФИЯ VILNIUS, KAUNAS, PANEVĖŽYS well as our diversities. ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA LUXEMBOURG / THE BROKEN THE LUXEMBURG CIRCLE SELFISH BECAUSE we are united in BRNO MIELE BREAKDOWN GIANT LUXEMBOURG / LUXEMBURG VALERIA GOLINO FELIX VAN GROENINGEN CLIO BARNARD diversity and the European DANMARK Union is our common space. KØBENHAVN MAGYARORSZÁG BUDAPEST MIELE THE BROKEN CIRCLE THE SELFISH GIANT DEUTSCHLAND LUX FILM DAYS LUX FILM DAYS LUX FILM DAYS MALTA 3 FILMS | 24 LANGUAGES 3 FILMS | 24 LANGUAGES 3 FILMS | 24 LANGUAGES Director: Valeria28 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Golino BREAKDOWN28 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Director: Clio28 EUROPEAN Barnard COUNTRIES MIELE by Valeria GOLINO, BERLIN, KÖLN, MÜNCHEN Country: Italy,WWW.LUXPRIZE.EU France WWW.LUXPRIZE.EU Country: UnitedWWW.LUXPRIZE.EU Kingdom VALLETTA Director: Felix van Groeningen THE BROKEN CIRCLE EESTI EP_LuxPrice_GENERIC&DAYSPOSTER_A3_EN_V01.inddYear: 2013 1 4/10/13 15:59 EP_LuxPrice_GENERIC&DAYSPOSTER_A3_EN_V01.indd 2 4/10/13 15:59 EP_LuxPrice_GENERIC&DAYSPOSTER_A3_EN_V01.inddYear: 2013 3 4/10/13 15:59 NEDERLAND Country: Belgium BREAKDOWN by Felix van TALLINN Running Time: 100’ Year: 2012 Running Time: 93’ LEIDEN Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Running Time: 110’ Cast: Sean Gilder, Siobhan Finneran, Groeningen and THE SELFISH ÉIRE / IRELAND Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Lorraine Ashbourne, Steve Evets, Elliott ÖSTERREICH Cast: Veerle Baetens, Johan GIANT by Clio Barnard are CORCAIGH / CORK Iaia Forte Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Tittensor, Conner Chapman, Shaun WIEN Producer: Viola Prestieri, Riccardo Thomas on the programme of the 2nd Rampelberg, Nils de Caster ΕΛΛΆΔΑ POLSKA Scamarcio, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Producer: Dirk Impens Producer: Tracy O’Riordan edition of LUX FILM DAYS, Raphael Berdugo Production: Moonspun Films, BFI Film ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ WARSZAWA, WROCŁAW Co-producers: Frans Van Gestel, organised by the European Production: Buena Onda, Les Films Arnold Heslenfeld, Laurette Schillings Fund, FilmFour ESPAÑA PORTUGAL des Tournelles, Rai Cinema, Cité Films Production: Menuet Producties, Awards/Selection: Cannes 2013, Parliament. BARCELONA, GIJON, Awards/Selection: Cannes 2013, Un Directors’ Fortnight, LUX Prize Official LISBOA Topkapi Films LANZAROTE, SANTIAGO DE Certain Regard, Brussels Film Festival Awards/Selection: Berlinale 2013, Selection Competition ROMÂNIA 2013, LUX Prize Official Selection Panorama Special Audience Award, Taken together, these three COMPOSTELA, SEGOVIA, BUCUREŞTI Competition, Globi d’Oro 2013, Synopsis SEVILLA CPH PIX 2013, LUX Prize 2013 Official remarkable films reflect the SLOVENIJA Best debut film, Best actress A contemporary fable about Selection Competition, Tribeca Film richness, depth and beauty FRANCE (Jasmine Trinca) Festival 2013 13-year-old Arbor and his best LJUBLJANA ANGOULÊME, MARSEILLE, friend Swifty. Excluded from of the European cinema. SLOVENSKO Synopsis Synopsis school and outsiders in their own Each has its own take on the STRASBOURG BRATISLAVA Irene lives a pretty isolated life The Broken Circle Breakdown tells community, the boys meet Kitten, HRVATSKA alone. Her clandestine job is to questions facing our society, SUOMI / FINLAND the love story between Elise and a local scrap dealer, and begin help terminally-ill people to die approaching them realistically ZAGREB HELSINGFORS / HELSINKI Didier. She has her own tattoo collecting scrap metal for him with dignity by giving them a drug. or imaginatively, harshly or ITALIA shop; he plays the banjo in a band. using a horse and cart. Swifty has SVERIGE One day she supplies a new “client” It is love at first sight, in spite of a natural gift with horses and Arbor delicately. ROMA, BOLOGNA STOCKHOLM with a fatal dose, only to find out major differences. He talks, she has a business brain and a way with ΚΎΠΡΟΣ he’s perfectly healthy. Irene is UNITED KINGDOM listens. He is a dedicated atheist, words – they make a good team. determined not to be responsible Go and see these films and ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑ LONDON, BELFAST, GLASGOW although at the same time a naive But when Arbor begins to emulate for his suicide. From this moment, discuss on luxprize.eu the romantic. She has a cross tattooed Kitten by becoming greedy and Irene and Grimaldi are locked on her neck, even though she has exploitative, tensions build, leading problems of the legitimacy (or unwillingly in a tense and unusual both feet firmly on the ground. to a tragic event which transforms not) of alleviating others’ pain relationship which will change Their happiness is complete after them all irrevocably. when people cannot take this Irene’s life forever. their little girl Maybelle is born. fatal decision freely (MIELE), Unfortunately, Maybelle, at six years old, becomes seriously ill. or the way youngsters react Didier and Elise respond in very when they are cast aside by different ways. But Maybelle does society and institutions (THE not leave them any choice. Didier SELFISH GIANT) or how a young and Elise will have to fight for her European couple is suddenly hit together. by tragic events which question WATCH, all their values (THE BROKEN @luxprize CIRCLE BREAKDOWN). DEBATE #luxprize & VOTE WWW.LUXPRIZE.EU set of rules, which the film goes some way abandon his fateful plan. Although he hands A CENTRAL THEME towards spelling out and which are now over his bottle of barbiturates, his brutal tested in a new way - should she accept, as suicide at the end of the film also illustrates Euthanasia is the obvious central theme Grimaldi suggests, that someone might want the failure of the young woman to convince of Valeria Golino’s film and a controversial to commit suicide because they are tired of others of the rightness of her reasoning and issue in many European countries. Whilst a living? Is it right to help someone commit her innermost convictions. The film thus few, such as Belgium, the Netherlands and such an act? This moral debate is matched by highlights, in a rather pessimistic manner, Switzerland, have legalised active euthanasia a growing realisation on Miele’s part of the the way fundamental disagreements can in certain circumstances, most others regard true nature of the issues involved. During a persist, whether between individuals, such it as murder and thus treat it as a serious conversation with Grimaldi, she contrasts his as Irene and Grimaldi, or within a family, criminal offence. Some countries, such as attitude with that of all the people she has between a sick brother and his sister who is Norway, Finland, France and Spain, effectively helped to die in the last three years and who, inwardly appalled by his decision, or even turn a blind eye to passive euthanasia, for deep down, wanted to live despite having to between European countries, since the two example through the withdrawal of medical endure an unbearable existence. neighbouring countries which feature in the care, when death is inevitable and when the film, Switzerland and Italy, have profoundly patient concerned has freely given his or her The issue of rules – whether those imposed different policies on euthanasia. consent. Other countries that are traditionally on us by society or those we set for ourselves Catholic or Orthodox, such as Italy, – is at the heart of the film. When Miele Poland, Portugal and Greece, have banned realises that in spite of herself she has broken AN EXISTENTIAL euthanasia.