Festival Events Asbl today announced the Opening and Closing films of the 16th British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg 2025 Autumn Edition with both screenings to be held at Ciné Utopia in Luxembourg-Limpertsberg.
The core festival dates are 14 – 21 September, with a number of other screenings before and after these dates. The full programme is to be announced later in the week.
OPENING Screening on Sunday 14 September 2025 @ 19:00: BRIDES
Title: Brides (WA; 93 mins, drama)
Directed by: Nadia Fall
Starring: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar, Yusra Warsama, Leo Bill, Fiona Helen Armstrong
Synopsis: Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their lives in the UK with a dangerous plan of travelling to Syria. Quiet, watchful Doe hasn’t gone anywhere since arriving in the UK as a refugee at the age of three from Somalia. Badass Muna, of Pakistani heritage, is the dominant force. As she leads Doe through airport security, the girls are giddy and hysterical but their mood changes as soon as their flight is announced. These girls are not going on holiday, but to Istanbul, to be met by a stranger who will take them to the border to start a new life in Syria. Disaster strikes when their chaperone doesn’t show up, but they form a new plan to continue their journey alone, testing their resolve, their faith and their friendship. As we discover their back stories that led them here, the girls get ever closer to their destination, so must confront the reality of their futures.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vG3FwbWiKvo
Tickets: https://www.luxembourg-ticket.lu/en/8/eid,68033/brides.html
Notes: preceded by the Opening Speeches, and followed by a reception offered by the British Embassy in Luxembourg and Festival Events Asbl
CLOSING Screening on Sunday 21 September 2025 @ 19:00: RE-CREATION
Title: Re-Creation (IE, LU; 89 mins, drama)
Directed by: Jim Sheridan, David Merriman
Starring: Vicky Krieps, Jim Sheridan, John Connors, Aidan Gillen, Colm Meaney, Claire Johnston, Gilbert Johnston
Synopsis: Paying Hommage to 12 Angry Men, Re-Creation is a docudrama set in a Jury room. Based on a fictional court case of Ian Bailey, a man who was in real life accused of the murder of French film-maker, Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. 12 jurors must analyse the real-life evidence against him and decide his fate. Juror 8, played by Vicky Kreips, represents the voice of Sophie. She and Juror 1, played by Jim Sheridan, interrogate the case to find fact from fiction. They are out after the truth, no matter where that leads. Fiction to question reality. The film gives the victim back a voice that was abruptly interrupted and helping those grieving find closure. World premiered at Tribeca in New York in June 2025.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/hsGdRiVmlhg?si=WnY24eB4zZFT6YYx
Tickets: https://www.luxembourg-ticket.lu/en/8/eid,68034/re-creation.html
Notes: in collaboration with Tarantula Distribution; preceded by the BIFFL 2025 Autumn Edition Awards, and followed by a Q&A and reception offered by Festival Events Asbl
TICKETS
Ticket cost €10 for festival screenings at Ciné Utopia and are available via Luxembourg-Ticket.lu.
For more detailed information on the programme, etc., please visit https://festivalevents.lu/filmfestival/current-screenings/
