02-07-2018

FNE at KVIFF 2018: LUX Prix Official Selection Announced

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    KARLOVY VARY: The ten films in the official selection of the annual Lux Film Prix of the European Parliament were announced at the Karlovy Vary IFF on 1 July 2018.

    More than 50 films were considered by the members of the Panel, from the most talked-about world-premieres with the official selection concentrated on showing off European film’s diversity. The themes in the selected films range from immigration, populism, nationalism, the environment and globalisation, to war, memory, justice, gender and religion.

    The official selection was announced in KVIFF by Evelyne Gebhardt, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Helga Trüpel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education, Martina Dlabajová, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control, Michaela Sojdrova and Bogdan Wenta, Members of the Committee on Culture and Education and Doris Pack, LUX Film Prix Coordinator.

    From the 10 films in the Official Selection, three films will be selected that will take part in the 2018 Lux Film Days. The three films will all be subtitled in the 24 official languages of the EU and compete for the Lux Film Prix, which will be announced in the European Parliament on 14 November 2018.

    The LUX FILM PRIZE Official Selection:

    Border (Sweden, Denmark)
    Directed by Ali Abbasi

    Donbass (Germany, France, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, UK) directed by Sergei Loznitsa
    Produced by Ma.ja.de. Fiction in coproduction with Ukraine’s Arthouse Traffic, France’s JBA Production, Dutch Graniet Film, Dutch Wild at Art, Romania’s Digital Cube, associate producer Atoms & Void
    Supported by Eurimages and the CNC’s World Cinema Support and the Romanian CNC
    Sales: Pyramide International

    Girl (Belgium)
    Directed by Lukas Dhont

    Happy As Lazzaro (Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany)
    Directed by Alice Rohrwacher

    Mug (Poland)
    Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska
    Produced by Nowhere
    Coproduced by the Krakow Festival Office
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    Styx (Germany, Austria)
    Directed by Wolfgang Fischer

    The Other Side of Everything (Serbia) DOC
    Directed by Mila Turajlić

    The Silence of Others (Spain) DOC
    Directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar

    U – July 22 (Norway)
    Directed by Erik Poppe

    Woman at War (France, Iceland, Ukraine)
    Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson

    For further information Visit us: www.luxprize.eu