Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis

Organized every two years jointly by the Film Fund Luxembourg and the Filmakademie, the Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis rewards the best contributions to Luxembourg cinema and audiovisual. Discover the nominated and award-winning films from previous editions.

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  • A Boat in the Garden

    A Boat in the Garden

    Animation, Drama

    2025

    1h.15min

    tous publics

    I can tell you about my father's voyage on his boat, because I was with him all the time. It was a rather strange voyage, with no ocean or sea crossing, ...


  • Zero Impunity

    Zero Impunity

    Documentary, Animation

    2019

    1h.30min

    -16

    ZERO IMPUNITY sheds a powerful spotlight on the seemingly total Impunity for the use of sexual violence in armed conflicts worldwide.


  • What's left?

    What's left?

    Documentary

    2024

    1h.15min

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    How did the Cercle Culturel Curiel and its trattoria, come to have a major influence on the political and cultural life of Luxembourg?


  • Youth (Hard Times)

    Youth (Hard Times)

    Documentary

    2025

    3h.47min

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    In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive ...


  • Youth (Homecoming)

    Youth (Homecoming)

    Documentary

    2025

    2h.32min

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    Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories ...


  • All We Imagine as Light

    All We Imagine as Light

    Drama

    2024

    1h.58min

    -12

    In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband.


  • Draw for Change!

    Draw for Change!

    Documentary

    2023

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    The series Draw for Change! showcases six female cartoonists from around the globe challenging societal boundaries and norms.


  • Youth (Spring)

    Youth (Spring)

    Documentary

    2023

    3h.32min

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    This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run ...


  • Reflection in a Dead Diamond
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    Reflection in a Dead Diamond

    Thriller, Action & Adventure

    2025

    1h.27min

    -16

    A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.


  • Poison
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    Poison

    Drama

    2024

    1h.26min

    -12

    A love story about a couple reunited years after tragedy drove them apart.


  • The Restless
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    The Restless

    Drama

    2021

    1h.57min

    -10

    Leïla and Damien love each other deeply, but their life is greatly affected by Damien's bipolarity.


  • The Last Ashes

    The Last Ashes

    Action & Adventure

    2023

    2h.0min

    -12

    This is a contemporary western drama with female leads, taking place in Luxembourg in 1854.


  • California Dreaming

    California Dreaming

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.44min

    tous publics

    California Dreaming explores the unusual town of California City, which is the 3rd largest city by area in the state of California.


  • De Buttek

    De Buttek

    Comedy

    2019

    1h.33min

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    André is terminally ill and wants to hand over his company to one of his employees. Ready for a crazy race ?


  • Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
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    Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2022

    1h.20min

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    Ernest and Célestine return to Ernest's homeland to have his broken violin repaired. They discover that music is banned throughout the country.


  • Illegal

    Illegal

    Drama

    2010

    1h.35min

    -10

    Tania and her 14-year-old son Ivan are Russian and have been illegal immigrants in Belgium for eight years now. One day she is arrested.


  • Corsage

    Corsage

    Drama

    2022

    2h.4min

    -12

    Christmas 1877, Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) celebrates her 40th birthday. Stifled by convention, she increasingly rebels against her image.


  • More Than Ever

    More Than Ever

    Drama

    2022

    2h.3min

    -12

    A couple who have been happily married for many years face an existential decision.


  • Wolfkin

    Wolfkin

    Horror, Drama

    2023

    1h.30min

    -16

    Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin's aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father's estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which ...


  • The Swallows of Kabul

    The Swallows of Kabul

    Animation

    2019

    1h.17min

    -12

    Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. Mohsen's ...


  • Maret

    Maret

    Drama

    2h.7min

    16+

    Groundbreaking brain surgery in a clinic in Lanzarote may be Maret’s only hope to get her memory back. The problem is : does she really want to remember ...


  • Totem

    Totem

    Kids & Family

    2022

    1h.30min

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    Ama, the daughter of Senegalese asylum seekers, feels completely Dutch. When Ama’s mother and brother are arrested, Ama sets off in search of her father ...


  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

    Animation, Drama

    2023

    1h.48min

    -10

    The film interweaves several of Haruki Murakami's short stories, giving them new philosophical and existential meaning.


  • Icarus

    Icarus

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2022

    1h.16min

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    On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull named Asterion (aka ...


  • Io sto bene

    Io sto bene

    Drama, Comedy

    2020

    1h.34min

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    Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country. He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. ...


  • Harka
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    Harka

    Drama

    2022

    1h.27min

    -12

    Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he ...


  • Let's Get Lost
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    Let's Get Lost

    Comedy, Drama

    2023

    1h.43min

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    Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives ...


  • Lost Flowers

    Lost Flowers

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.12min

    -10

    March 2020. Fabrizio, a photographer and filmmaker who lives in Luxembourg, returns to his family in central Italy after his father has suffered a heart ...


  • Little Nicholas

    Little Nicholas

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2022

    1h.22min

    tous publics

    Between Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny give life to a laughing, mischievous boy, Little Nicholas.


  • Jumbo

    Jumbo

    Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2020

    1h.34min

    -12

    Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night guard at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with this ...


  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
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    Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    Comedy

    2021

    1h.46min

    -16

    Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding ...


  • Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

    Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

    Drama

    2019

    1h.29min

    -12

    "Enter our sweepstakes via text message. Does Maryam Komijani deserve to be forgiven and pardoned? Send 1 for yes, 2 for no" then the TV show goes live ...


  • Streams

    Streams

    Drama

    2021

    2h.2min

    -10

    Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, Amel seeks her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed ...


  • Where Is Anne Frank
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    Where Is Anne Frank

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2021

    1h.39min

    -10

    The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. A fiery teenager, Kitty wakes up in the near future ...


  • Collective
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    Collective

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.49min

    -12

    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative ...


  • Préjudice
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    Préjudice

    Drama

    2015

    1h.43min

    -12

    At a family dinner, Cédric learns that his sister is expecting a baby. It gives Cédric a feeling of resentment that gradually turns into fury.


  • The Room

    The Room

    Thriller

    2019

    1h.40min

    -16

    Kate et Matt achètent une maison à retaper dans un coin reculé. Ils découvrent une pièce cachée, une chambre étrange capable d’exaucer tous leurs désirs… Kate ...


  • Hannah Arendt

    Hannah Arendt

    Drama, Biography

    2012

    1h.53min

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    1961. Philosopher Hannah Arendt is thrilled when 'The New Yorker' accepts her proposal to cover the trial of Nazi mass murderer A. Eichmann in Jerusalem. With ...


  • Gëff eens

    Gëff eens

    Shorts

    2013

    14min

    tous publics

    Noah and Baba are friends. Best friends. One day, Noah runs into a panicked Baba. He is nervous, being chased. Baba’s father – a violent man - is drunk ...


  • The Congress
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    The Congress

    Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    2012

    2h.3min

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    A free adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel “The Futurological Congress”, by Ari Folman and starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel.


  • Joker Joe
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    Joker Joe

    Comedy

    2020

    1h.24min

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    Back-to-school! For troublemaker Toto, it’s the best playground for fooling around. When a sculpture collapses during the opening of a museum, Toto is ...


  • Touch Me

    Touch Me

    Shorts

    2019

    21min

    tous publics

    Alice has cancer. She has already lost one breast. And now her hair starts to fall out. What else will the disease take away from her? Moritz, her boyfriend, ...


  • Murer - Anatomy of a Trial

    Murer - Anatomy of a Trial

    Drama

    2018

    1h.50min

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    On the basis of original records, MURER – ANATOMY OF A TRIAL reconstructs the 1963 proceedings against Franz Murer, a wealthy Austrian farmer with a sterling ...


  • Superjhemp retörns

    Superjhemp retörns

    Comedy

    2018

    1h.40min

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    In order to save tiny Luxembourg from a cosmic catastrophe, a civil servant in a midlife crisis has to find back his lost superpowers and face his biggest ...


  • Two of Us
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    Two of Us

    Queer, Romance

    2020

    1h.35min

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    Nina and Madeleine are in love with each other. To everyone else, they are just neighbours living on the top floor of their block of flats.


  • White Fang

    White Fang

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2018

    1h.25min

    tous publics

    A boy who befriends a half breed wolf as he searches for his father, who has mysteriously gone missing during the Gold Rush.


  • Gutland

    Gutland

    Drama, Independent

    2017

    1h.47min

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    Early one summer morning a man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work.


  • Fire Will Come
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    Fire Will Come

    Drama

    2019

    1h.26min

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    The strange loner Amador was blamed for a devastating forest fire. After serving his prison sentence, he is now no longer welcome in his village.


  • Secrets of War

    Secrets of War

    Kids & Family

    2014

    1h.35min

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    Limburg, 1943. Twelve year olds Tuur and Lambert are childhood friends living in an idyllic village during wartime. Limburg, 1943. Twelve-year-olds Tuur ...


  • Ernest & Célestine
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    Ernest & Célestine

    Animation, Kids & Family

    2012

    1h.20min

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    The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.


  • Tomorrow After the War

    Tomorrow After the War

    Drama

    2015

    1h.40min

    -12

    In February 1945, Jules Ternes returns to Luxembourg. To escape conscription, he had fled the country and joined the resistance movement in France. Back ...


  • Skin Walker
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    Skin Walker

    Drama, Horror

    2019

    1h.27min

    -16

    A fragile young woman, who has tried to escape the dark past of her family, is forced to return to her family's estate. She must relive her previous traumas ...


  • Song of the Sea
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    Song of the Sea

    Animation

    2014

    1h.33min

    tous publics

    The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they ...


  • Doudege Wénkel - Blind Spot

    Doudege Wénkel - Blind Spot

    Thriller, Crime

    2012

    1h.36min

    -16

    The intrigue kicks off with a cop being murdered and develops as a complex and smart game of manipulation where nothing and no one are what they seem. Charismatic ...


  • The Orphanage
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    The Orphanage

    Drama

    2019

    1h.30min

    tous publics

    Kabul, end of the 80s. The young Qodrat earns money by reselling cinema tickets to Bollywood movies. But he gets caught by the police and put in an orphanage ...


  • Black '47

    Black '47

    Action & Adventure, Drama

    2018

    1h.40min

    -16

    In 1847 an Irish mercenary fighting for the British army abandons his post to seek revenge on those responsible for the death of his family.


  • Escapada
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    Escapada

    Comedy

    2019

    1h.29min

    tous publics

    Siblings torn apart by the hazards of life meet in Spain to settle the family's modest inheritance. Gustave, the mover, on the brink of bankruptcy, Jules ...


  • Nak Muay

    Nak Muay

    Documentary

    2013

    55min

    tous publics

    The story of Kevin Haas, a young Luxembourgian who wants to make his dream come true : to become the first Luxembourgian World Champion of Muay Thai.


  • Tel Aviv on Fire
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    Tel Aviv on Fire

    Drama, Comedy

    2018

    1h.40min

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    Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career ...


  • A Wedding

    A Wedding

    Drama

    2016

    1h.38min

    -10

    Zahira, who lives in Belgium, is supposed to follow Pakistani tradition and enter into an arranged marriage. She seeks help from her brother.


  • La Symétrie du Papillon

    La Symétrie du Papillon

    Comedy

    2012

    1h.33min

    -12

    Roger, a luxemburgisch writer, turns his entourage into fictional characters: as he plays with reality and fantasy, his novel ''La Symétrie du Papillon'', ...


  • Peitruss
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    Peitruss

    Crime, Drama

    2019

    1h.33min

    -16

    Since she's started a passionate new relationship with the handsome and mysterious Joakim, life is smiling back at Lara again. Her marriage to detective ...


  • Schwaarze Mann

    Schwaarze Mann

    Documentary

    2018

    52min

    tous publics

    An intimate portrait of the first black man of Luxembourg nationality, his quest for identity in Europe and in Congo, through the prism of Belgian colonization ...


  • Boule & Bill

    Boule & Bill

    Kids & Family, Comedy

    2013

    1h.22min

    tous publics

    The daily adventures of a boy named Boule and his spaniel Bill. Everything begins at the SPCA. A young cocker spaniel lies dejectedly in his cage. He ...


  • The Amazing Wiplala

    The Amazing Wiplala

    Kids & Family

    2014

    1h.33min

    tous publics


  • Tango Libre

    Tango Libre

    Drama

    2012

    1h.38min

    -12

    JC is a prison guard who takes tango classes one night a week. One day he meets a newcomer, Alice. The next day, he sees her again during prison visiting ...


  • Succès Fox

    Succès Fox

    Biography, Documentary

    2014

    1h.20min

    tous publics

    A journey through the life and career of Fernand Fox, as well as a ride through the Luxembourg theatre, TV and film world from the fifties to now. A portrait ...


  • D'Belle Epoque

    D'Belle Epoque

    Documentary

    2012

    1h.38min

    tous publics

    It is August 1914, and Belle, a young well-bred lady and Betty, her chambermaid, discover a big trunk in the attic. When they manage to open it, thousand ...


  • Strangers in the Night

    Strangers in the Night

    Documentary

    2011

    52min

    tous publics

    A double portrait: one of Pit Vinandy as a civil person, and one of Cyber Piper, his virtual and scenery double that evolves successful in Second Life. “Strangers ...


  • De Bauereblues

    De Bauereblues

    Documentary

    2011

    1h.10min

    tous publics

    In the last 150 years, Luxembourgish agriculture has changed beyond recognition, with a fall in employment of over 60%. With this decline as a backdrop, ...


  • Chocolate, Chewing-Gum & Brown Babies

    Chocolate, Chewing-Gum & Brown Babies

    Documentary

    2010

    1h.20min

    tous publics

    On September 10th, 1944, the first Americans cross the Luxembourgish border. The long-awaited liberators are here! Their pockets filled with chocolate, ...


  • The Assistant

    The Assistant

    Thriller

    2015

    1h.27min

    -12

    While taking his wife to the hospital to give birth, Thomas knocks down and kills a young man on the road. Marie-France, the dead man's mother, has difficulty ...


  • Faustino: One Man Show

    Faustino: One Man Show

    Documentary

    2015

    1h.30min

    tous publics

    Filmmaker Andy Bausch's perspective on the entertainer Fausti. Respectful, amusing, but critical appraisal of 6 decades in show business in Luxembourg. He ...


  • Mammejong

    Mammejong

    Drama

    2015

    1h.25min

    -12

    Man-child Flëpp needs to choose between his mother’s cosy fortress and an uncertain outside world in order to win the heart of young runaway Leena. Flëpp ...


  • Melody

    Melody

    Drama

    2014

    1h.32min

    tous publics

    Melody, a young woman, decides to become a surrogate mother for a large sum of money that will allow her to at last buy the hair salon that she dreams ...


  • D'Fifties

    D'Fifties

    Documentary

    2013

    1h.22min

    tous publics

    A nostalgic retrospective on the 1950s in Luxembourg from a very candid perspective, in five chapters. An insider’s glimpse of the history of the Grand ...


  • Schrebergaart

    Schrebergaart

    Documentary

    2010

    55min

    tous publics

    « Garden Stories » is a documentary film about allotment gardens in the South of Luxembourg. Allotment gardens are small plots of land made available for ...


  • Histoire(s) de femme(s)

    Histoire(s) de femme(s)

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.7min

    tous publics

    Histoire(s) de Femme(s) traces the emergence and evolution of women's emancipation through the personal destinies of women from different generations of ...


  • Eldorado

    Eldorado

    Documentary

    2016

    1h.24min

    tous publics

    The hopes and disillusions of four lusophone immigrants collide over a period of three years in a chimeric land of plenty called Luxembourg.


  • Sixty8

    Sixty8

    Documentary

    2017

    1h.30min

    tous publics

    May 1968 in Luxembourg: Maoists, hippies, the student magazine Roud Wullmaus, the Dany Cage Bar, the barns of Consdorf, the student strikes. May 1968 ...


  • The Crossing

    The Crossing

    Thriller, Drama

    2011

    1h.37min

    -12

    Eight-year-old Lola Arendt disappears on an island in Scotland. Her parents, Martin and Sarah, are shattered by this terrible event and separate. Two years ...


  • Inthierryview

    Inthierryview

    Biography, Documentary

    2008

    1h.45min

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    The life and career of Luxembourg actor Thiery Van Werveke, told by himself and people who had worked with him. The shooting of the movie was started when ...


  • Baby(a)lone

    Baby(a)lone

    Drama

    2015

    1h.30min

    -12

    Two troubled teens in Luxembourg act out their frustrations on the world, and slowly grow closer. This story does not take place in shanty towns or in ...


  • Hot Hot Hot

    Hot Hot Hot

    Comedy

    2011

    1h.33min

    -12

    Employed at Fish Land leisure parc and passionate a bout fish, Ferdinand is suddely transferred to a sauna facility... An initiation takes its course. Ferdinand ...


  • The Road Uphill

    The Road Uphill

    Documentary

    2011

    1h.30min

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    Luxembourg. One of the world's smallest countries, a green and peaceful place bordered by Belgium, France and Germany. The birthplace of two brothers, ...


  • Mich's Kitchen

    Mich's Kitchen

    Drama, Shorts

    2017

    15min

    tous publics

    Down-and-out Mich is working in a soup kitchen when Fadi, a Syrian refugee, causes some disturbance by cutting the line. Down-and-out Mich (45) is working ...


  • Le tout nouveau testament

    Le tout nouveau testament

    Kids & Family, Comedy

    2015

    1h.53min

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    Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter? God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter ...


  • Extraordinary Tales
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    Extraordinary Tales

    Horror, Animation

    2015

    1h.13min

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    Director Raul Garcia presents an animated anthology of 5 stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe. Torture, murder, black death and madness are on the agenda. ...


  • Our Children

    Our Children

    Drama

    2012

    1h.51min

    -12

    After getting married to Mounir, Murielle finds herself trapped in a stifling emotional environment.


  • Naked Opera

    Naked Opera

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2013

    1h.21min

    -16

    The documentary accompanies the living man Marc on his travels around the world to staging his favorite operas – and inspired by it, in search of joie ...


  • Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale
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    Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale

    Kids & Family

    2019

    1h.30min

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    September 1989 in the GDR. With the change of the general mood in the country, the life of 12-year-old FRITZI changes as well. Her best friend Sophie has ...


  • Fever

    Fever

    Drama

    2014

    1h.20min

    -12

    Austria in the 1950s. Franzi, eleven years old, lives in a small town with her parents. Photographs are to her what picture books are for other kids. She ...


  • Mos Stellarium

    Mos Stellarium

    Documentary, Drama

    2015

    52min

    tous publics

    Six young refugees talk about their escapes and trips, as well as the new problems they encounter in Luxembourg. Mos Stellarium is a poetic documentary ...


  • The Treasure Knights

    The Treasure Knights

    Kids & Family, Comedy

    2012

    1h.33min

    tous publics


  • La fameuse route

    La fameuse route

    Comedy, Shorts

    2010

    12min

    tous publics

    Our notorious guys are on the notorious road that leads to the notorious plant that's used to be smoked. Things don't turn out as notorious as expected. In ...


  • Heim ins Reich

    Heim ins Reich

    Documentary

    2004

    1h.58min

    tous publics

    Nazi Germany occupied the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg from 1940 to 1944, with the intention of returning the Luxembourgers to their so-called German roots. ...


  • In a Dark Place

    In a Dark Place

    Thriller

    2006

    1h.35min

    -16

    Anna, an art therapist, is hired to raise two orphans in the custody of their uncle. However, the house where they live seems haunted by mysterious past ...


  • Cello Tales

    Cello Tales

    Documentary

    2013

    1h.15min

    tous publics

    Four strings, a wooden box that has lived for 300 years. The cello is the most human-like of all musical instruments in shape, size and sound. A daughter ...


  • Invisible Sue

    Invisible Sue

    Kids & Family

    2018

    1h.30min

    tous publics

    12-year-old Sue is a lone wolf. Due to a potion invented by her mother, she is suddenly able to become invisible. But when mum is kidnapped, Sue will need ...


  • Luis and the Aliens

    Luis and the Aliens

    Animation

    2017

    1h.25min

    tous publics

    An 11-year-old boy befriends three aliens after they crash their spaceship into his house. "Luis" tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who makes friends ...


  • Butterflies

    Butterflies

    Shorts

    2005

    12min

    tous publics

    A man gets interrogated by the police about the drowning of a little girl that he claims he witnessed. Patrick witnesses the drowning of a a young girl ...