LuxFilmFest

Nader's wife asks for a divorce because he refuses to leave Iran. Events then unfold at a frantic pace for him.

The everyday lives of teachers and students from different corners of Ukraine.

In the 1860s, Vivienne Le Coudy, an independent Canadian, begins a relationship with Holger Olsen, a Danish immigrant.

A bank employee plans to steal money, confess, and then serve his sentence while his colleague hides the loot.

A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother's memory to recover stolen loot.

Mona, a Syrian refugee in Berlin, joins a competitive girls' football team where she learns the value of teamwork for success.

An invitation from Timbuktu director Abderrahmane Sissako to visit and film his homeland, Mauritania.

Two ghosts, a mother and son, search for the boy's missing father on a physical and spiritual journey.

Sano returns to the sleepy coastal village where he fell in love with his wife, Nagi, five years earlier.

A moving portrait of a woman with a fervent desire to have a daughter.

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Ireland, 1981. An effete young girl neglected by her family is sent to live with a foster family for the summer.

A young girl tries to prove to her disapproving mother that she can potty train a cute but unruly piglet.

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

A biting ensemble film about the Romanian revolution.

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

Love, grief, isolation: a quiet film about what connects us—and what drives us apart. Sign language gives shape to the unspeakable.

BIG EYES tells the scandalous true story of one of the greatest frauds in the history of art.

After his wife leaves the family, a man has to look after their two teenage daughters alone.

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

Meet the most influential nerd you may never have heard about: Hugo Gernsback.

A tennis prodigy refusing to speak up amidst abuse allegations directed at her coach.

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

Running away, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway.

Photographer and filmmaker Richard Billingham traces his family's tumultuous daily life through three different memories and three different eras.

The spectre of a national catastrophe arises at the end of September 2008 in Luxembourg when two systemic banks from the financial centre are on the verge ...

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 ...

Yorgos Lanthimos' highly acclaimed debut won more than 20 awards.

Under a scorching sun, seventeen-year-old Purdey and his fifteen-year-old brother Makenzy are left to fend for themselves. While Purdey cleans houses in ...

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 ...

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site ...

A cattle herder and his family who live in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives abruptly disturbed by the Jihadists, determined to control their ...

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian ...

A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, ...

Aya grows up with her mother on the island of Lahou. Joyful and carefree, she likes to pick coconuts and sleep on the sand. However, her paradise is doomed ...

Liam has a terrible childhood, is neglected and abused. He grows up being an adolescent with dark thoughts and actions. As a defence mechanism he shits ...

Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she ...

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

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 ...

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

The story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their ...

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.

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Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. During the negotiations she has access to crucial information.

In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.

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 ...

In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, ...

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship ...

A young cattle farmer is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.

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 ...

Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected ...

Paulette Van Der Beck's housekeeping school teaches the importance of keeping the home and fulfilling marital duties without complaining.

"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 ...

As Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. Director ...

Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of ...

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 ...

A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are turned upside down when a disarming young couple enters their lives.

Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer ...

A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

Four ambitious black students at an Ivy League university struggle to find their place in the predominantly white society.

A group of teenage girls get a glimpse of what it's like to grow up as boys and they ponder what gender is really all about.

Maggie (Greta Gerwig) has a plan: she wants a child - but the thirty-something New Yorker's life plan does not include a father.

A Spanish politician whose bourgeois lifestyle is based on illegal activities threatens his entire party when a newspaper reveals the truth about him.

1943. Germany is occupying France. Fanny, 13, and her little sisters have been sent to the OSE, a foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive ...

Sarah and Victor have been a couple for 45 years. How did they manage that? Love, ambition and secrets define this couple's odyssey.

Left to his own devices, Charley runs away with "Lean on Pete," trying to find his aunt and, more importantly, a home.

It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal ...

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.

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

In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family ...

When her disastrous wedding night leads to an accidental killing, Natalie flees her husband and her small, rural town in South Africa’s desolate Karoo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An examination of the lives, needs, troubles and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico. This film triptych deals with prostitutes in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Luce and Ulysse love each other. They live a full and happy life managing their own little veterinary clinic on the Atlantic coast. Luce is awaiting a ...

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 ...

Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally ...

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 ...

Tommy, 11 years old, is on the road again with her eccentric parents. Her freshly out-of-jail father promises her she won’t miss the first day of the school! But ...

Yuki lost his mother after a long illness, when he and his sister were still children. For loved ones, she is now only a distant voice, a foreign face ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dark WWII comedy about friends, stolen artwork and a case of mistaken identity, as a Jewish man switches places with his Nazi best friend in order to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Set in Budapest in 1913, when the city was considered to be at the heart of Europe. 20-year-old Irisz Leiter, arrives in the Hungarian capital after spending ...

Twelve-year-old Binti dreams of becoming a famous vlogger like her idol Tatyana. But when the police raid her home, and try to deport her and her dad, ...

A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love.

Jake et Mati, deux étrangers un peu perdus dans la ville de Porto, partagent une soirée d’amour intense, puis reprennent le cours de leurs existences. ...

Brussels, 2018. Amel and Mashir's secret love endures under the weight of family traditions. How can they be together without alienating their communities? Brussels, ...

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive ...

Emergency room doctor Rike fulfills her dream and sails alone in a yacht across the Atlantic to Ascension Island.

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 ...