THE 'LUX' PRIZE 2010
EU LUX 2010
THE 'LUX' PRIZE 2010 OFFICIAL FILM SELECTION ANNOUNCED BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
The ten films pre-selected to compete for this year's European Parliament LUX Prize were unveiled on Monday 29 June 2010, at the Brussels European Film Festival. The LUX prize,established by the EP in 2007, is given to the best European film illustrating or questioning the values of European identity, Europe's cultural diversity or bringing insights into the debate on the EU integration.
The films pre-selected to compete for the 2010 LUX Prize are:
· Akadimia Platonos (Plato's Academy) by Filippos Tsitos, Greece, Germany
· Bibliothèque Pascal by Szabolcs Hajdu, Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Romania
· Die Fremde(When We Leave) by Feo Aladag, Germany
· Illégal(Illegal) by Olivier Masset-Depasse, Belgium
· Indigène d’Eurasie (Eastern Drift) by Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania, France, United Kingdom
· Io sono l'amore (I Am Love) by Luca Guadagnino, Italy
· La bocca del lupo (The Mouth of the Wolf) by Pietro Marcello, Italy
· Lourdes by Jessica Hausner, Austria, France, Germany
· Medalia de onoare (Medal of Honour) by Calin Peter Netzer, Germany, Romania
· R by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer, Denmark
As part of a partnership between the LUX Prize and the “Venice Days” section of the Venice International Film Festival, a shortlist of at least three of these films will be announced on 27 July 2010 at the “Venice Days” press conference. The competing films will first be screened in Venice, and will then be shown in the European Parliament's Brussels premises from 26 October to 19 November. Members of the European Parliament will then vote for the winning film, and the 2010 LUX Prize will be awarded on 24 November by the President of the European Parliament iat its headquarters in Strasbourg.
As for previous winners — Auf der anderen Seite (2007), Le silence de Lorna (2008) and Welcome (2009) — the 2010 LUX Prize winning film will benefit from European Parliament financial support to pay for subtitling in the 23 official languages of the European Union, including an adaptation of the original version for visually- or hearing-impaired people, and for producing a 35 mm print for each EU Member State or supporting the subsequent DVD release.
(for more info see www.lux-prize.eu)
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