“First to close in 2020, first to reopen in 2021”
3 → 13/03/2022 12TH FESTIVAL THE FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE Official Competition • Documentary Competition Young Audiences • Official Selection Out-Of-Competition Special Events (Masterclasses, Workshops, Exhibitions) VR Competition • Made in/with Luxembourg
We will consider submissions for SUBMISSIONS the following categories: feature-length narratives, documentaries, kids/ 2022 educational. The formats for submissions are: links Submissions for (open for 9 viewers), DVD or Blu-ray. Please contact us first if your film is in the Luxembourg City another format. Film Festival 2022 All films that are not in French, English are now open! or German must have subtitles. Multiple entries from a same submitter are accepted. All disks, documents, and other materials submitted for consideration will not be returned. The Festival is not liable for any copyright infringement or unauthorised luxfilmfest.lu/en/submissions usage. AWARDS 2021
GRAND PRIX — DOCUMENTARY AWARD — BY ORANGE LUXEMBOURG BY BGL BNP PARIBAS 10.000 € 5.000 € © Cinéart Productions © Okofilm QUO VADIS, AIDA? NEMESIS BY JASMILA ŽBANIĆ BY THOMAS IMBACH BA, AT, RO, NL, DE, PL, FR, NO, TR, 2020 – 104’ – DRAMA CH, 2020 – 132’ – DOCUMENTARY
YOUTH JURY AWARD — AUDIENCE AWARD — BY KINEPOLIS BY ORANGE LUXEMBOURG 2.000 € THE WOLVES (LOS LOBOS) ANTIGONE BY SAMUEL KISHI LEOPO BY SOPHIE DERASPE
CRITICS AWARD SCHOOL JURY AWARD QUO VADIS, AIDA? ANTIGONE BY JASMILA ŽBANIĆ BY SOPHIE DERASPE SPECIAL MENTION THE WOLVES (LOS LOBOS) BY SAMUEL KISHI LEOPO
KIDS JURY AWARD NOT AWARDED IN 2021 → VR AWARD – BEST IMMERSIVE ROCCA CHANGES THE WORLD EXPERIENCE BY KATJA BENRATH → KIDS’ FESTIVAL FAVOURITE
SOME OF THE FESTIVAL’S GUESTS SO FAR Mike Leigh, Abderrahmane Sissako, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Costa-Gavras, Vicky Krieps, Atom Egoyan, Michel Gondry, Luc Dardenne, Darius Khondji, Pablo Trapero, Volker Schlöndorff, Ray Liotta, John Howe, Xiaoshuai Wang, Svetlana Alexievich, Terence Davies, Douglas Kennedy… HIGHLIGHTS 2021 © Lynn Theisen © Lynn
A HYBRID EDITION IN-PERSON CINEMA SCREENINGS & ONLINE CONTENT © Olivier Vigerie
LUXFILMFEST TRIBUTE TO COSTA-GAVRAS © Olivier Vigerie
INTERNATIONAL JURY (from left to right) Christina Schaffer, Finnegan Oldfield, Sandrine Bonnaire, Lolita Chammah, Mounia Meddour, Marie-Ange Luciani – not pictured: Gilles Marchand © D.R.
MASTERCLASS WITH WILLIAM FRIEDKIN PRESENTED BY PHILIPPE ROUYER © Lynn Theisen © Lynn
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR TERRY GILLIAM INDUSTRY DAYS IN 2021
VR PAVILION EUROPA INTERNATIONAL MEETS EUROPA FILM FESTIVALS
From 4th March to 31st May, The two associations Europa the VR Pavilion screened International and Europa Film an exciting selection of ambitious Festivals, vendors and festivals, and award-winning 360° films met for a working session and swept spectators away on an via Zoom to tackle several urgent immersive journey to other topics facing the film industry worlds, all without breaking travel in a post-pandemic landscape. restrictions. An innovative VR to Go initiative developed by PHI complemented the on-site VR cinema. Organised in partnership with Film Fund Luxembourg, PHI Centre Montreal, neimënster & Digital Luxembourg
3’52’’ MAX – LES IMAGINALES UPCOMING TITLES GOES LUXFILMFEST: PART II
A pitching session of twelve Renowned French, Belgian Luxembourg projects and and Luxembourg authors of co-productions in different the fantastic literary genre stages of development that were took part in an online session recorded and made available that addressed adaptation online to festival representatives, rights issues for literary works. international sales agents Organised in partnership with and distributors. Les Imaginales d’Épinal Watch the various pitches by scanning this QR code:
LUXFILMFEST IS RECRUITING! Would you like to work with us? Then have a look at the open positions on our website: luxfilmfest.lu/en/jobs CONTACT
Alexis Juncosa Gladys Lazareff Artistic Director Managing Director +352 661 671 001 +352 661 671 000 [email protected] [email protected]
Gloria Morano Office Head of the Young 11B, Place du Théâtre Audiences Programme L-2613 Luxembourg +352 661 671 601 +352 28 22 83 [email protected] [email protected]
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