More than fifty films considered to compose the official selection LUX prize 2018. Selected titles face numerous issues, immigration populism and nationalism, from war to memory and to justice, from gender issues to the religious ones. These works reflect perfectly the challenges, changes and fears of our societies.
The official selection was announced at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Evelyne Gebhardt, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Helga Trüpel, Vice-President of the Culture and Education Commission, Martina Dlabajová, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Control, Michael Sojdrova e Bogdan Wenta, Members of the Commission for Culture and Education and Doris Pack, coordinator for the LUX Prize.
The three films finalists who will compete for the LUX Prize will be revealed in late July during the press conference of Venice Days. The winner, instead, It will be awarded in Strasbourg on 14 November.
After the official selection, finally, It was unveiled on the LUX film prize 2017 who got the most votes from the public across Europe. It is Same Blood – Sámi Blood of Amanda Kernell.
I 10 film finalists
Ali Abbasi
Limit – Border
Sweden, Denmark
Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
The silence of the others – The Silence of Others
Spain, United States
Lukas Dhont
Girl
Belgium, Netherlands
Benedikt Erlingsson
A woman goes to war – Woman at War
France, Iceland, Ukraine
Wolfgang Fischer
Styx
Germany, Austria
sergei Loznitsa
Donbass
Germany, France, Ukraine, Netherlands, Romania
Erik Poppe
Utöya 22. July – The: July 22
Norway
Alice Rohrwacher
happy Lazarus – Happy as Lazarus
Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany
Malgorzata Szumowska
Face – Mug
Poland
Mila Turajilic
The other side of all – The Other Side of Everything
Serbia, Qatar, France
So in the selection, quattro register (Alice Rohrwacher, Malgorzata Szumowska, Mila Turajlić, Almudena Carracedo) e, for the first time in the history of the LUX Prize, two documentaries (The other side of all – The Other Side of Everything e The silence of the others – The Silence of Others). An amazing variety of topics covering the entire European area and a series of problems and urgent needs that must be addressed in the immediate present.
Concurrently 28 Times Cinema reaches its ninth edition
The Days, the Lux Film Prize ed Europa Cinemas They have announced the names of 28 young European film lovers that will be part of the ninth edition of 28 Times Cinema. The boys were chosen from a shortlist of candidates submitted by over two hundred seventy cinemas across Europe.
The project, born in 2010 thanks to the synergy between the Lux Film Prize of the European Parliament, Europa Cinemas and Days, in collaboration with Cineuropa, It gives rise each year to a European youth community who are in the love of cinema common ground for exchange. I 28 moviegoers will meet for the first time in Venice where it will form the jury of GdA Director’s Award (€20.000). Later become ambassadors Lux Film Prize, engaging in the promotion of the three films of the official competition in their respective countries.
In the coming weeks we will present participants 28 Times Cinema on our social. We asked what the film for them ... you'll find out soon!
Austria Natalia Del Mar Kasik
Belgium Ben De Smet
Bulgaria Yassen Atanassov
Cipro Diego Aparicio
Croatia Betty Stojniã
Denmark dictates C. Houmöller
Estonia Rasmus Rammo
Finland Santeri Laasanen
France Julie Lavigne
Germany Charlotte Heusler
Greece Dimosthenis Kontes
Ireland David Deignan
Italy Delpiano white
Latvia Madara done
Lithuania Martyna Ratnikaitì
Luxembourg Jeff Schaul
Malta Joseph Anthony Zerre
Netherlands Sofie Cato Maas
Poland Hanna Drzazga
Portugal Camila Lobo
UK Jonathan Atkinson
Czech Republic Vojtech Konecny
Romania Anastasia Gavrilovici
Slovakia Dominica Jareèná
Slovenia Luka Benedièiè
Spain Alba Villarmea Sancho
Sweden Elijah Debot
Hungary András Heilig