LUX (film award)

LUX Film Award (2019)

LUX is the Film Award of the European Parliament , which since 2007 is awarded. It "should stimulate discussion and reflection on and artistic engagement with European unification". The LUX is awarded to films that address the topic of integration and reflect the wealth of linguistic diversity in Europe.

General

The creation of the award goes back to Gérard Onesta's efforts, among other things . “Lux” is the Latin word for “light” and is intended as an allusion to the Lumière brothers . The trophy represents a film roll in the form of a tower, which is supposed to symbolize the tower of Babel . In the first year, 800 entries applied for the award. In 2011, the EU's prize money was 90,000 euros.

purpose

As part of this award, Parliament will cover the costs of subtitling the three films in the final round on the occasion of the “LUX Film Days” in all 24 official EU languages. It also funds the adaptation of the original version of the award winner to the needs of the hearing impaired or visually impaired, as well as a customized promotion of the film so that it can be shown in each of the 28 EU countries. The prize is intended to help reduce the fragmentation of European film.

Electoral process

An expert jury first makes a pre-selection of ten films ("Official Selection"), which is later limited to three films ("Competition"), from which the parliamentarians choose the winner.

Prize winners and finalists

• 2007: On the Other Side - Director: Fatih Akın
• 2008: Lorna's Silence - directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• 2009: Welcome - directed by Philippe Lioret
• 2010: The Stranger - Director: Feo Aladağ
• 2011: The Snow on Kilimanjaro (Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro) - Director: Robert Guédiguian
• 2012: Venetian Friendship (Io sono Li) - Director: Andrea Segre
• 2013: The Broken Circle - directed by Felix Van Groeningen
• 2014: Ida - Director: Paweł Pawlikowski
• 2015: Mustang - Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• 2016: Toni Erdmann - Director: Maren Ade
• 2017: The Girl from the North (Sameblod) - directed by Amanda Kernell
• 2018: Against the Current (Kona fer í stríð) , - Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
  • further finalists:
    • The Other Side of Everything (Druga strana svega) by Mila Turajlić
    • Styx by Wolfgang Fischer
• 2019: God exists, her name is Petrunya (Gospod postoi, imeto i 'e Petrunija) - Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska
  • further finalists:
    • Cold Case Hammarskjöld - Director: Mads Brügger
    • The Realm - Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Web links

Commons : Lux Prize  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Prize: Akin film is translated into 22 languages. In: Spiegel Online . October 24, 2007, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ LUX Film Prize 2014: Slovenian, French and Polish films in the final . Retrieved December 21, 2015
3. ^ LUX Film Prize: Selection process , accessed July 15, 2016.
4. ↑ LUX Prize 2018 . Article dated November 13, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018.
5. ↑ LUX-Filmpreis 2018: Austrian-German co-production “Styx” among the three finalists . OTS bulletin of July 26, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018.
6. ↑ LUX Film Prize goes to North Macedonian Film , deutschlandfunkkultur.de Kulturnachrichten from November 28, 2019, accessed on the same date
7. ↑ Cold Case Hammarskjöld, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya and The Realm to vie for the LUX FILM PRIZE 2019. July 23, 2019, accessed on August 19, 2019 .