On Saturday evening, the 9th Luxembourg City Film Festival held its Awards evening at Kinepolis-Kirchberg.
With a considerable increase in cinema audiences - an additional 20% compared to 2018, with 18,600 audience members in total over the entire festival - and a clear success for the continuous daytime screenings launched this year, the Luxembourg City Film Festival’s 2019 Grand Prix – by Orange went to the British film RAY & LIZ, while the Italian documentary SELFIE received the Documentary Award – by BGL BNP Paribas; the festival’s awards ceremony paid hommage to English director MIKE LEIGH.
In addition to the total visitor numbers, which are to be confirmed after the final screenings on Sunday, the visitor numbers of the Virtual Reality Pavilion have further increased to 2,072 participants (without even including this last weekend).
Awards
- GRAND PRIX – BY ORANGE (€10,000): RAY & LIZ by Richard Billingham
- DOCUMENTARY AWARD – BY BGL BNP PARIBAS (€5,000): SELFIE by Agostino Ferrente
- AUDIENCE AWARD – BY ORANGE: BIRDS OF PASSAGE (PÁJAROS DE VERANO) by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
- CRITICS AWARD: THE REALM (EL REINO) by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- YOUTH JURY AWARD – BY KINEPOLIS (€2,000); STYX by Wolfgang Fischer
- SCHOOL JURY AWARD: THE SILENT REVOLUTION (DAS SCHWEIGENDE KLASSENZIMMER) by Lars Kraume
- KIDS JURY AWARD: MATTI AND SAMI AND THE THREE BIGGEST MISTAKES IN THE UNIVERSE (MATTI UND SAMI UND DIE DREI GRÖSSTEN FEHLER DES UNIVERSUMS)
- THE KIDS’ FESTIVAL FAVOURITE: MY GIRAFFE (DIKKERTJE DAP) by Barbara Bredero
The juries also chose to present special mentions to THE MAN WHO SURPRISED EVERYONE (TCHELOVEK KOTORIJ UDIVIL VSEH) by Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov (Special Mention of the International Jury), BIRDS OF PASSAGE (PÁJAROS DE VERANO) by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Special Mention of the Press Jury), and to FIRECRACKERS by Jasmin Mozaffari (Special Mention of the Youth Jury).
