The 15th Luxembourg City Film Festival (LuxFilmFest) (6-16 March) has unveiled its full programme, along with a line-up of special guests and jury members. This year’s festival will welcome renowned talents such as Alejandro Amenábar, Tim Roth, Trine Dyrholm and Mohammad Rasoulof.

Kicking off on 6 March, the festival opens with Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Berlinale competition entry Hot Milk [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], starring Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps and Fiona Shaw. The film delves into a complex tale of filial love disrupted by an unexpected romance. The festival’s awards ceremony on 15 March will feature The Safe House [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lionel Baier
ficha de la película] by Lionel Baier, offering audiences a poignant family story set against the backdrop of May 1968 and showcasing Michel Blanc’s final on-screen performance. Closing the festival is The Thing with Feathers [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Dylan Southern, an adaptation of Max Porter’s bestseller. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a grieving father struggling to help his two sons cope with the sudden loss of their wife and mother.

Over 1,000 films were reviewed in order to arrive at the final selection for 2025, with the Official Competition serving as its showcase. Nine films are vying for the festival’s Grand Prix, offering a prize of €10,000, to be decided upon by the international jury led by Iranian filmmaker and Oscar for Best International Feature Film nominee Mohammad Rasoulof, who is joined by Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, British screenwriter Paul Laverty, Austrian actress Valerie Pachner, Catalonian filmmaker Albert Serra, and Luxembourgish writer-director and VFX artist Jeff Desom.

The films are: Bound in Heaven by Huo Xin (China), Hanami [+lee también:
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entrevista: Denise Fernandes
ficha de la película] by Denise Fernandes (Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde), Holy Electricity [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tato Kotetishvili
ficha de la película] by Tato Kotetishvili (Georgia/Netherlands), Kontinental '25 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Radu Jude (Romania/Brazil/Switzerland/UK/Luxembourg), The New Year That Never Came [+lee también:
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entrevista: Bogdan Mureşanu
ficha de la película] by Bogdan Mureşanu (Romania/Serbia), On Falling [+lee también:
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entrevista: Laura Carreira
ficha de la película] by Laura Carreira (UK/Portugal), Reflection in a Dead Diamond [+lee también:
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entrevista: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forz…
ficha de la película] by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (Belgium/Luxembourg/Italy/France), The Village Next to Paradise [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Mo Harawe (Austria/France/Germany/Somalia), and Vittoria [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alessandro Cassigoli y Cas…
ficha de la película] by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman (Italy).

Merging experimental essays, festival hits and exclusive works, six documentaries will be duking it out for the Documentary Prize, worth €5,000: About a Hero [+lee también:
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entrevista: Piotr Winiewicz
ficha de la película] by Piotr Winiewicz (Denmark/Germany/USA), A Fidai Film [+lee también:
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entrevista: Kamal Aljafari
ficha de la película] by Kamal Aljafari (Palestine/Germany/Qatar/Brazil/France), Afternoons of Solitude [+lee también:
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entrevista: Albert Serra
ficha de la película] by Albert Serra (Spain/France/Portugal), Home Game [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lidija Zelovic
ficha de la película] by Lidija Zelović (Netherlands), Invention by Courtney Stephens (USA) and The Landscape and the Fury [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Nicole Vögele (Switzerland). The documentary jury features experts such as Doris Bauer, head of selection at Vienna Shorts; Jumaï Laguna, programmer at Premiers Plans; Hugo Rosàk, head of the Industry Office at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Léo Soesanto, journalist and programmer for the Riga International Film Festival; and Wim De Witte, director of programming at Film Fest Gent.

In addition to its competitions, the Made In/With Luxembourg selection at LuxFilmFest showcases a record-setting array of works (co-)produced with Luxembourg, including Désirée Nosbusch’s directorial debut, Poison [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Luxembourg/Netherlands/Germany/UK), starring Trine Dyrholm and Tim Roth, which offers a poignant portrayal of a couple reunited on an anniversary date. Premiered at Göteborg, Jahia’s Summer [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Olivier Meys (Belgium/France/Luxembourg) explores teenage friendship amidst an asylum-seeking journey. Jean-Claude Barny's biopic Fanon [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jean-Claude Barny y Alexan…
ficha de la película] (France/Luxembourg/Canada) delves into colonialism's impact through the lens of the titular freedom activist and psychoanalyst. Horizonte [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by César Augusto Acevedo (Colombia/France/Luxembourg/Chile/Germany) unfurls a metaphysical drama set during Colombia’s civil war, while Christophe Hochhäusler's Death Will Come [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Germany/Luxembourg/Belgium) is a thriller about a contract killer. Kiyoshi Kurosawa revisits his 1998 film with Serpent’s Path [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (France/Belgium/Luxembourg/Japan), featuring Damien Bonnard, Kō Shibasaki and Mathieu Amalric.

In the documentary section, Ali Asgari’s Higher than Acidic Clouds (Iran/Luxembourg) provides a black-and-white autobiographical take on censorship. A Place Called Home (Luxembourg/Thailand/Netherlands), co-directed by Pattrawan Sukmongkol and Max Jacoby, is an elegy to displacement and love. Fränz Hausemer’s Terre Rouge (Luxembourg) honours Luxembourgish author Gaston Rollinger through poetic docu-fiction. Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Ukraine/Luxembourg/Netherlands/France) portrays Ukrainian schoolchildren amid conflict. Finally, LuxFilmFest concludes Wang Bing’s trilogy with Youth (Hard Times) [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] and Youth (Homecoming) [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (France/Luxembourg/Netherlands), continuing his profound exploration of capitalism’s toll on Chinese factory workers.

For the first time, LuxFilmFest will dedicate an entire evening to TV series (co-)produced in Luxembourg. The line-up includes Dangerous Truth by Barbara Eder (Germany/Luxembourg/Greece), which follows a young man on a witness protection programme as he investigates his father’s murder. Finisterra by Guilherme Branquinho and Leone Niel (Luxembourg/Germany/Portugal) is set in World War II-era Portugal and tells the story of a young orphan accused of witchcraft, on a quest for truth, freedom and vengeance. Finally, Hometowns by Lukas Grevis, Lucie Wahl, Catherine Dauphin and Akim Elouardi (Luxembourg) is a documentary series that profiles six young people through the lens of as many emerging filmmakers. The event is presented in collaboration with RTL.