“If you have never heard about the luxambourg city film Festival Before, It May Surprise You to Know That Biggest Annual Film Event in The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Which. Belgium, is turning 15 this year. Long Considered A Hidden Gem on the Global Fest Circuit, The Event”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Long Considered A Hidden Gem On the Global Fest Circuit, The Event Has Steadily Gained in Stature, Routinely Attracing Big Industry Names to a Country With. Just Last Year as an example, WHEN The FEST SET ATENDANCE RECORD WITH A 10 PERCENT INCREASE TO 19,962. For ITS 2024, Edition, It Attracked the Likes of Viggo Mortensen, Chinese Director Wang Bing, Mauritanian Director Abderrahma Sissako, French Director Gaspar NOKA Masterclass – and a jury that included luxambourg Star Vicky Krieps, German Actor Sebastian Koch, and US Director Ira Sachs.
For this year’s 15th Edition, WHICH Kicks Off on Thursday, The Luxambourg City Film Festival Welcome Tim Roth (Rob roy, Reservoir dogs, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her LOver), who will be featured in a masterclass and a retroSPECTIVE, AND SPANISH-CHILEAN FILMMAKER Alejandro Amenábar (Thesis, The Others, The Sea Inside, Agora), Who Will Deliver A MasterClass and What Organizers Say Will Be “One of the Motst Prestigious Juries to Date.”
Iranian Director Mohammad Rasoulof (The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Manuscripts Don’t Burn) Will Serve As Jury President and Be Joeded by Danish Actress Trine Dyrholm (The Girl with The Needle, The Celebration, The Commune), British Screenwriter and Long-Time Ken Loach Collaborator Paul Laverty (Sorry we missed you, The Angel’s Share, I, Daniel Blake), Austrian Actress Valerie Pachner (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of DumbLedore, Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden, A Hidden Life), Spanish Director Albert Serra (Afternoons of Solitude, Pacification, The Death of Louis XIV), and luxambourg’s Own Jeff Desom, A Director, Screenwriter and VFX Artist Known for His Effects Work On Everything, everywhere, all at once.
PAST ATTENDEES HAVE ALSO INCLUDED THE LIKES OF RAY LOTTA, Margarethe von Trota, Terry Gilliam, and Michel Gondry.
2024 LUXEMBURG CITY FILM Festival Opening Night Cocktails
Jointly Support by the Ministry of Culture and the City of Luxembourg, The Festival Typical Features of Highlights of Past Festivals, National Productions O, MASTATIONS ORCLACLATS Tailored to Younger Audiences.
This Year’s Competition Lineup Consists of ALessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman’s VittoriaHélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Reflet dans un diamant mortDenise Fernandes’ HanamiLaura Carreira’s On FallingBogdan Muresanu’s The New Year That Never CameTATO KOTETISHVILI’S Holy ElectricityMo harawe’s The Village Next to ParadiseRadu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 and Huo Xin’s Bound in heaven.
Gladys Lazareff, Managing Director of the Luxambourg Festival, and Artistic Director Alexis Juncosa Have Been Building The Fest and Its Reputation from The Very Beginning.
“The FIRST YEAR, WE PUT TOGETHER The plan Thr. “We packed the work of a whole year into that period. It Was All Driven by Heart and Pride. ”
“Some told US We Were Crazy,” Juncosa Adds. “BUT we did and have a having the since then buy the Festival of the Idea of Being Very Welcomy, So People Started Pitching Us and Wanting To Come.”
The Fest Is Also Inviting and Inclusive WHEN IT MOTHER, NO MATTER HOW MUCH OR How Little People Follow The Ins and Outs of the Movie Space. “We Want to be Open for Everyone,” not just Hardcore Film Buffs, Lazareff Says. And Juncosa Highlights that the Fest Follows a come-as-you-you -are Policy. “IF YOU WANT TO WEAR A TUXEDO, Come In your Tuxedo,“ He Says. “IF YOU LIKE JEANS AND A T-SHIRT, Come Like That.” THEN HAUGHS as HE adds: “or if you want to come in your slice, we’ll see you in that!”
The Two Describe The Festival’s Programming Philosophy As A Desire to Provide a “Panoramic” Lineup of the Best Cinema in the World, Given That People from AROUND The GLOBE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUVE LUBE. In lyine with that, the four pillars for luxemburg have always been an anonational fiction film compethy co-reproductions, whoh have increasted over time.
And Insthead of Hunting for World Premieres, The Team Is Happy to Simpy Showcase Great Movies from AnyWhere in the World.
“We Are A B-TIER FESTIVAL THAT CAN CHOOSY WITHOUT The PRESSESES THAT A-LIST FESTIVALS HAVE,“ JUNCOSA Tells Thr. “Insthead of chasing World Premieres, We Are Looking for the Best Films.”
Taking Place Soon After The Berlinale and Sundance Means that Luxembourg Can Screen Such Berlin Titles as Jude’s Kontinental ’25 and Sundance Films Like Dylan Southern’s The Thing with FeathersStarring Benedict Cumberbatch. The Selection Process Has Become Professionalized Thanks to An Increase in Film Submissions That Now Requires a Bigger Team of Professional Selecters Racher Thankaved. This year, they had to sift Through around 1,000 movies.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Berlin-Premiering Hot MilkStarring Krieps, Emma Macquey and Fiona Shaw, Will Open the Luxambourg City Festival On Thursday Evening, While The Thing with Feathers Will Close It On March 16.
Viggo Mortensen at the 2024 Luxembourg City Film Festival CourTesy of Luxembourg City Film Festival/Margaux Gatti
“We are Veri Proud to Celebrate Our 15th Edition This Year,” Says Lazareff, Promising Some Glamour and Fun.
But Above All, The Luxemburg City Film Festival Wants to Celebrate Cinema and Provide Some Escapism for Its Audiences. Says Juncosa: “There is so Much Going on in the World, and there is so Much Conflict. We Want to Bring Film Audiences 11 Days of Joy with Great Films. ”