They include the debut film from Slovenian director Rok Biček, Class Enemy (see FNE profile HERE), which debuted at the Venice IFF and went on to win numerous festival awards and landed in the top ten of the domestic box office as reported on FNE (HERE). The film is also screening at the Karlovy Vary IFF.
Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish/Danish coproduction Ida which has been breaking records in international distribution, most recently in the U.S. (see article HERE), won most of the top awards in Poland in 2013. The film is screening in the KVIFF (Horizons section).
The third CEE film is Kornél Mundruczó’s Hungarian/German/Swedish coproduction White God (see production profile HERE) which bowed at the 2014 Cannes IFF. This is Mundruczó’s second time competing for the LUX Prize.
The Official Selection was announced by Doris Pack, coordinator of the LUX Prize, Olga Sehnalova, member of the European Parliament, and Karel Och, KVIFF Artistic Directorand member of the LUX Prize Selection Panel.
Three films out of the ten of the Official Selection will run for the Official Competition and will be subtitled into 24 official European languages and screened in all 28 member states of the European Union in the LUX Film Days. The three films of the Official Competition will be announced at the Venice Days press conference in Rome in late July.The winning film, voted by Members of the European Parliament, will be awarded on 17 December in Strasbourg.
The complete list of nominated films follows:
- BANDE DE FILLES (GIRLHOOD), by Céline Sciamma – France
- FEHER ISTEN (WHITE GOD), by Kornél Mundruczó – Hungary, Germany, Sweden
- HERMOSA JUVENTUD (BEAUTIFUL YOUTH), by Jaime Rosales – Spain, France
- IDA, by Pawel Pawlikowski – Poland, Denmark
- KREUZWEG (STATIONS OF THE CROSS), by Dietrich Brüggemann – Germany, France
- LE MERAVIGLIE (THE WONDERS), by Alice Rohrwacher – Italy, Switzerland, Germany
- MACONDO, by Sudabeh Mortezai – Austria
- RAZREDNI SOVRAZNIK (CLASS ENEMY), by Rok Biček – Slovenia
- TURIST (FORCE MAJEURE), by Ruben Östlund – Sweden, Denmark, France, Norway
- XENIA, by Panos H. Koutras – Greece, France, Belgium
