01.07.2018 - Lux Award 2018: check out the 10 films nominated

On the occasion of the 75th Venice Film Festival in the Collateral Events section in collaboration with the Venice Biennale and the Venice Authors' Days, the finalists of the European Parliament's LUX 2018 Prize will be screened. To run for for the LUX Prize, now in its twelfth edition, are:

• Saturday 1 September at 9.30 am, Cinema Astra: Styx by Wolfgang Fischer (Germany, Austria)
• Sunday 2nd September 11.30 am, Cinema Astra: The Other Side of Everything / Mila Turajlić (Serbia, France, Qatar)
• Woman at War / Kona fer í stríđ: by Benedikt Erlingsson (Iceland, France, Ukraine)

Projections on invitation to be collected at the Villa degli Autori (Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, 56 - Lido di Venezia). The screenings are held at the Cinema Astra (Via Corfu, 12 - Lido di Venezia)

For further information: Europe Direct of the City of Venice, toll-free number 800496200, infoeuropa@comune.venezia.it

Here are the three finalist films of #PremioLUX 2018 that will be subtitled in the 24 official languages ​​of the EU and screened in all the European Union countries during the LUX Film Days in autumn:

1. Styx: by Wolfgang Fischer (Germany, Austria) duration: 94 '. Rike embodies the typical Western model that continually seeks happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see her in everyday life as an emergency doctor overworked, before starting her long-awaited vacation in Gibraltar. Finally, she realizes the long-held dream: alone on a sailboat. Her destination is the Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. Her vacation, however, is soon interrupted when, after a storm, she is in close contact with a fishing boat full of refugees that is about to sink. Without her intervention, a hundred people could have drown. Rike, use the radio to ask for help - legally, she would not have to do anything else. But when her calls remain unanswered, and then they are rejected for various reasons, she overcomes her fears and tries to save as many people as she can.

2. The Other Side of Everything / Druga strana svega : by Mila Turajlić (Serbia, France, Qatar) duration: 104 '. A door locked inside a Belgrade apartment has kept a family separate from its past for over seventy years. As soon as the director begins an intimate conversation with her mother, it emerges that the political fault runs through their lives, revealing a house and a country infested with history. The chronicle of a family in Serbia becomes the burning portrait of an activist in times of great agitation and the opportunity to question the responsibility of each generation in the struggle for their future.

3. Woman at War / Kona fer í stríđ: by Benedikt Erlingsson (Iceland, France, Ukraine) duration: 100 '. Halla declares war at the local aluminum industry that is destroying his country. It takes all the risks to protect the Icelandic uplands but the situation could change with the unexpected arrival of a small orphan in his life.
 

"Migration, populism and sustainability: the three films competing for the LUX Prize once again suggest the urgent issues that Europeans face every day, and to which politics must give effective answers", recalled the President of the European Parliament Antonio TAJANI.

"In each of these films, the look and the stories of the women protagonists open us to confront current issues: the issue of responsibility towards the migrants masterfully represented in Styx, the civil commitment to fight the populist sirens in The Other Side Of Everything and, in Woman At War, the urgency of leaving a liveable world to future generations ".

All 751 members of the European Parliament will be invited to vote for one of the three films in competition.
The winner will be announced on November 14th at the solemn session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The winning film will be produced in original versions for hearing and visually impaired and will be supported in the promotion during national releases in the Member States. The 3 finalists will be subtitled in the 24 official languages ​​of the EU. This is in the belief that there is a "European cinema" able to overcome national barriers and convey a dialogue on today's Europe, highlighting the contradictions but also the values ​​and ideas on the future.

The LUX Prize is a film award given annually to a European production film by the European Parliament. It was established in 2007, fifty years after the Treaty of Rome.

At its 12th edition, the LUX Prize reflects the will of the European Parliament to support cultural and linguistic diversity, in the belief that this diversity can be a bridge between Europeans. The LUX Prize wants to be an instrument to discuss Europe, its values, its contradictions, and its future.
 
The purposes of the award are to spread a different light on the public debate on European integration and to facilitate the circulation of European films, overcoming the language barrier that hinders the existence of a common European film market. In this perspective, the € 87,000 awarded to the winning film is intended to subtitle it in all 24 official languages ​​of the European Union and produce a film copy for each Member State.

The logo, on which the real cup is modeled, is a film spiral inspired with the Tower of Babel, intended in a positive sense as a symbol of the richness in diversity, in the linguistic and cultural plurality of the European Union.