Luxembourg City Film Festival 2021

The Luxembourg City Film Festival will take place in Luxembourg from March 4 to 14 March, offering viewers the opportunity to enjoy the many movies on the programme. Despite of the particular circumstance we are all familiar with, the festival has decided to maintain the screening, while respecting the measures in force, by proposing a phygital format, in order to extend access to films to as many people as possible.

The 11^th edition of the festival had at heart to present the planned programme to all interested people, despite the context; it was at that time that the idea of a hybrid festival sounded quite obvious. By offering to discover movies in cinemas or online from home, the festival ensures that the greatest number of people can watch movies and documentaries, in competition or not.

If the festival did not give in for the organization of the event, it had to make a compromise on the guests and the international jury. Indeed, wanting the deliberations of the GRAND PRIX – by Orange to take place physically, a jury of personalities located in Paris was the best option. Thus 6 recognize professionals accepted to join the jury, under the presidency of the French actress and director Sandrine Bonnaire.

The international jury will therefore be composed of:

• LOLITA CHAMMAH, French actress
• MARIE-ANGE LUCIANI, French producer
• GILLES MARCHAND, French director and screenwriter
• MOUNIA MEDDOUR, French and Algerian director
• FINNEGAN OLDFIELD, French and British actor
• CHRISTINA SCHAFFER, Luxemburgish and German production designer

The international jury will have to choose between the 8 following movies to award the Grand Prix – by Orange:

• AIR CONDITIONER (AR CONDICIONADO) by Fradique
• ARISTOCRATS (ANO KO WA KIZOKU) by Yukiko Sode
• ASSANDIRA de Salvatore Mereu
• BECOMING MONA (KOM HIER DAT IK U KUS) by Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels van Koevorden
• CARELESS CRIME (JENAYAT-E BI DEGHAT) by Shahram Mokri
• QUO VADIS, AIDA? by Jasmila Žbanić
• THE WHALER BOY (KITOBOY) by Philipp Yuryev
• THE WOLVES (LOS LOBOS) by Samuel Kishi Leopo

In addition to the films competing for the Grand Prix – by Orange, 6 documentaries are in competition for the Documentary Award – by BGL BNP Paribas. The members of the Europa Film Festival network will decide on a winner.

• GEVAR'S LAND (ARD GEVAR) by Qutaiba Barhamji
• NEMESIS by Thomas Imbach
• ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA by Anabel Rodríguez Ríos
• SONGS OF REPRESSION by Estephan Wagner & Marianne Hougen-Moraga
• THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (A METAMORFOSE DOS PÁSSAROS) by Catarina Vasconcelos
• THE MOLE AGENT (EL AGENTE TOPO) by Maite Alberdi

You could also enjoy the movies appearing in the others categories of the festival, the official out of competition selection, the movies made in/with Luxembourg, the Cartes Blanches & artistic collaborations, the young public programme, and the workshops and events.

This year, Orange Luxembourg has decided to propose the movie MICA by Ismaël Ferroukhi for its Carte Blanche which will take place on March 11th. This movie engaged against the social inequalities, carries us through the story of Mica, a little boy growing up in the slum of Meknes in Morocco. His life is about to take a different turn when the tennis comes into his life by chance and when Mica will take his destiny into his own hands. To find out more about this favorite movie, go to cinema or directly from your living room on March 11^th.