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Nina Roza

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Credits

Country :
Canada-Bulgary-Italy-Belgium
Year :
2026
Director :
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
104 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Galin Stoev, Ekaterina Stanina, Sofia Stanina, Chiara Caselli, Michelle Tzontchev
Awards :
Official Competition, Berlinale 2026
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Thirty years after leaving Bulgaria, art curator Mihail is sent back to assess child prodigy Nina's work. Meeting her reminds him of his daughter at the same age when they emigrated, forcing him to confront his past.

Nina Roza is a carefully-observed drama about the weight of the past and the pull of home. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles' intimate character study of a man in self-imposed exile is anchored by Galin Stoev's remarkable performance as Mihail, weaving art and memory into a poignant exploration of identity and belonging.

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Rose of Nevada

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Credits

Country :
UK
Year :
2025
Director :
Mark Jenkin
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
114 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
George MacKay, Callum Turner, Francis Magee
Awards :
Orrizonti section, Venice Film Festival & Toronto Film Festival 2025
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

In a fishing village in Cornwall, hope has long vanished... until the morning a boat appears in the old harbor. The Rose of Nevada, lost at sea with its entire crew three decades earlier, has mysteriously returned.

Matching the lightning-in-a-bottle domestic success of Bait might be a tall order, though either way, the film seals its one-man-band creator as a distinctive, now eminently recognizable arthouse voice.

Variety

Seen from the vantage point of our hyper-digital 2020s, Jenkin isn’t just a stark outlier from the current media regime. He’s also among the very few working directors whose cinema feels both familiar and viscerally new.

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Romería

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Credits

Country :
Spain-Germany
Year :
2025
Director :
Carla Simón
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
112 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Llúcia Garcia, Mitch, Tristán Ulloa
Awards :
Compétition, Cannes Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

To obtain a scholarship, Marina must retrieve a civil status document that only her biological family can provide. The young girl travels to Vigo, Galicia, where her parents came from, to meet a whole part of her family.

Like on every pilgrimage, doubt and hope go hand in hand, but this "Romería" glows with so much warmth that it may well be the most heartfelt homecoming of the year.

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Le Chantier

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Credits

Country :
France-Switzerland
Year :
2025
Director :
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
94 minutes
Format :
digital
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
In collaboration with LUCA – Luxembourg Centre for Architecture
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

A film about the renovation of a legendary cinema, led by architect Renzo Piano. Filmed over three years, it presents a microcosm of society and examines the realities of the work that goes into creating the magic of cinema.

Dans une époque dominée par la technologie et l’automatisation, la caméra de Jean-Stéphane Bron s’attarde sur ce qui demeure résolument humain : le travail, minutieux et physique, de construction. Chaque personne, de l’ouvrier de chantier à l’architecte en chef, reçoit le même degré d’attention.

Swissinfo.ch

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Blue Heron

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Country :
Canada-Hungary
Year :
2025
Director :
Sophy Romvari
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
90 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Eylul Guven, Iringó Réti, Ádám Tompa
Awards :
Best First Feature, Locarno Film Festival 2025
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Originally from Hungary, eight-year-old Sasha relocates with her family to Vancouver in the late 1990s. In this unfamiliar landscape, her older brother Jeremy begins to develop dangerous behavioral disorders.

A major film, one of the best of 2025, and an announcement of the deep talent of its writer/director.

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Lost Land

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Credits

Original title :
Harà Watan
Country :
Japan-France-Malaysia-Germany
Year :
2025
Director :
Akio Fujimoto
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
99 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Shomira Rias Uddin, Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin
Awards :
Orrizonti Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Two Rohingya children, four-year-old Shafi and her nine-year-old sister Somira live in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. When their family disappears, they set out alone on a perilous journey to Malaysia.

"Lost Land" is Fujimoto’s third link in this powerful chain of dramas concerning the extreme hostility of the establishment towards displaced people. (…) Fujimoto shoots in an almost documentary-like, fly-on-the-wall style from the very beginning, but this isn’t to say that the film is cold or analytical in its depiction of this story.

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Human Resource

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Credits

Country :
Thailand
Year :
2025
Director :
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
122 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Prapamonton Eiamchan, Paopetch Charoensook, Chanakan Rattana-udom, Pimmada Chaisakaoen
Awards :
Fondazione Fai Prize – Orrizonti, Venice Film Festival 2025
Official Competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

In a Thailand gripped by a demographic crisis, an HR manager must reconcile the turmoil of her personal life with the chilling realities of the working world.

"Human Resource" is a film that explores and captures contemporary human life, the shifting definition of family, and existence in a world that will never be the same again.

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Insightful and intimate beneath its chilly, stylised surface, Thai drama Human Resource plays on the resonance of its English title: what becomes of individuals when people are treated as disposable material to fuel the machinery of the corporate world?

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Memory

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Country :
France-The Netherlands
Year :
2025
Director :
Vladlena Sandu
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
98 minutes
Format :
digital
Documentary Competition | With the director in attendance
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Following her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena (the director herself) leaves Crimea to settle in Grozny, Chechnya, fully unaware that her life will soon be upended by war.

Yet however impoverished or horrifying the circumstances it describes, Sandu’s film is lavish in visual imagination, bursting with lyrical, allegorical, political, even quasi-mythological imagery…

Variety

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Yes

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Credits

Original title :
Ken
Country :
France-Israel-Cyprus-Germany
Year :
2025
Director :
Nadav Lapid
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
150 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Ariel Bronz, Efrat Dor, Naama Preis, Alexey Serebryakov
Awards :
Quinzaine des Cinéastes, Festival de Cannes 2025
Official Selection – Out-of-competition
More information at www.luxfilmfest.lu

synopsis

Israel, in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art and bodies to the elite.

As sincere in its satire as it is satirical in its sincerity, the deliriously provocative Yes is a veritable orgy of self-loathing surrender that reaffirms Lapid as the world’s most visceral director on a shot-by-shot basis.

IndieWire

Yes

The film nearly bursts at the seams, as Lapid’s camera spins fast and frantic and out-of-control, with the color contrast and soundtrack turned all-the-way up, keeping the film forever on assault mode.

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Camille Claudel 1915

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Credits

Country :
France
Year :
2013
Director :
Bruno Dumont
Version :
vostEN
Duration :
97 minutes
Format :
digital
Actors :
Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy
Awards :
Compétition, Berlinale 2013
🎓 Université Populaire du Cinéma : key film of Lesson 2, free access for pass holders

synopsis

Winter 1915. Confined by her family in an asylum in southern France, Camille Claudel waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel, who might intervene to secure her release.

Camille Claudel

La réussite du film tient à une double opération d'effacement : effacement de la star, effacement du personnage historique. Jean-Luc Vincent incarne à ravir Paul Claudel et Juliette Binoche non seulement joue le jeu mais le précède. "Camille Claudel 1915" est un film d'art.

Libération

A powerhouse performance by Juliette Binoche provides the beating, tortured heart of this finely wrought and very affecting film about the later life of sculptor Camille Claudel.

Observer

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