5 European movies have been nominated for the Lux – The European Viewers Movie Award.
The 5 nominees are: Sofia Exarchou’s Animal, Mati Diop’s Dahomey, Gints Zilbalodis’ Move, Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted and Leonardo van Dijl’s Julie Retains Quiet.
The nominations had been introduced as we speak throughout an occasion on the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Since 2020, the award has been given by the European Parliament and European Movie Academy, in partnership with the European Fee and Europa Cinemas community.
The nominated movies are chosen as a result of they ‘deal with European values and lift consciousness about a few of as we speak’s fundamental social and political points reminiscent of psychological well being, poverty, local weather change, freedom of expression, gender equality, LGBTIQ+ rights’, in accordance with the organisers.
The winner might be chosen collectively by EU residents and members of the European Parliament. A platform to fee the nominated movies might be open from as we speak (September 18) till April 2025, with screenings and debates concerning the movies organised throughout that point. The winner might be introduced that month in a ceremony on the European Parliament in Brussels.
Two of the nominated movies premiered at this yr’s Berlinale – Dahomey in Competitors, the place it received the Golden Bear; and Intercepted in Discussion board.
An additional two began at Cannes – Move in Un Sure Regard and Julie Retains Quiet in Critics’ Week; whereas Animal premiered at Locarno in 2023.
Final yr’s award was received by Ilker Catak’s The Academics’ Lounge starring Leonie Benesch, after greater than 700 screenings of the nominated movies and conversations with greater than 70,000 viewers members.