LUX contenders to be announced on May 28
by Cineuropa
The jury for the 2009 LUX Prize met in Brussels on March 19 to start discussions on this year’s potential award winners.
The jury will next meet on April 30 and May 28, when it will announce the ten films in official selection and, from those, the three competition finalists. Members of the European Parliament will then vote for one of these three films in November.
The winner of the 2009 LUX award will receive funding for subtitling in each of the European Union’s 23 official languages and a 35mm copy for each member state.
Inaugurated in 2007, the annual LUX Prize is an initiative of the European Parliament to spotlight films that question European integration. Winners so far have been Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
interview: Klaus Maeck
film profile] and Lorna's Silence [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Arta Dobroshi
interview: Arta Dobroshi
interview: Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
interview: Olivier Bronckart
film profile] by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
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