The Breadwinner;
Credit: (c) Breadwinner Canada Inc., Cartoon Saloon, (Breadwinner) Limited, Mélusine Productions S.A
On Thursday, the programme for the 8th annual Luxembourg City Film Festival was announced for the festival which will take place from 22 February to 4 March 2018 at cinemas including the Cinémathèque, Kinepolis-Luxembourg and Ciné Utopia, with the festival headquarters at Casino Luxembourg, with other events being held at Mudam, the Abbaye de Neumunster, Cercke Cité and the Rotondes.
The President of the board of the film festival, Colette Flesch, and Luxembourg’s Secretary of State for Culture, Guy Arendt, relayed the opening words at the press conference to launch the festival, which includes various strands including a Young Public section, workshops, etc., with Alexis Juncosa revealing the main programming line-up.
The president of the international jury will be Atom Egotan (Canada), also Bruce McDonald (Canada), Stephan Roelants (Luxembourg), Anne Seibel (France) and Leonor Silveira (Portugal); with another jury for documentaries, presided over by Mimi Pleauché, and another jury for the press.
The opening film will be The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey (animated, in English), a Luxembourg co-production. The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci will be screened at the awards evening, with Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson (live action motion) set to close the festival.
Other notable (documentary) films to be screened (in competition) include: A Woman Captured; Amal; Devil’s Freedom; Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle; Of Fathers and Sons; and Over the Limit (in Russian).
For the official competition: Disappearance (in Persian); Foxtrot (in Hebrew); Free and Easy (in Chinese); Gutland (in Luxembourgish, mystery/thriller); Holiday (in Danish & English); Lean on Pete by Andrew Haigh (in English, drama); Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (in Indonesian, drama); Pity (in Greek, drama); Pororoca (in Romanian, drama); Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton (in English, western).
Other films to be screened include: A Prayer Before Dawn (in Thai & English, drama); All You Can Eat Buddha (in Spanish & French); Bad Banks (in German, thriller); Beyond Dreams (in Swedish, drama); Brimstone & Glory (in Spanish, documentary); Columbus (in English, drama); Don’t Worry, we won’t get far on Foot (in English, drama); Gook (in Korean and English, drama); Have you seen my movie? (In English, drama); Holy Camp (in Spanish, drama); Liyana (in English, doc); Samui Song (in Japanese, thriller); The Third Murder (in Japanese).
And the Made In / With Luxembourg strand includes such titles as Mary Shelley, a period drama co-produced by Juliette Films. There will also be screenings of short films too during the festival.
Full details, including programming, see www.luxfilmfest.lu, with ticketing (€7/adult; €5/reduced) from midday tomorrow (Friday 2 February) from www.luxembourg-ticket.lu
