Ech Hunn Dech 2023
An intern confronts a sex offender all alone who can't wait to meet her - with dangerous consequences.
An intern confronts a sex offender all alone who can't wait to meet her - with dangerous consequences.
Between 1880 and 1960, hundreds of Luxembourgers went to settle in the Belgian Congo to live and work there; some for some time, others for ever. The film tells their story and their experiences.
“Entrée d’Artistes” is an astonishing documentary about jazz, swing and dance music in Luxembourg between the Twenties and the Sixties. The first orchestras performed at the fair, at the Alpha, at the International,… ; jazz, considered “negro” music and banned during the Nazi occupation, was prerogative of cabaret,… “Entrée d’Artistes” retraces that fine period using archive images, interviews and reconstructions but also by having the musicians of that era rediscover it (Tommy Dallimore, Andy Felten, Johnny Glesener, Jean Roderes, Camille Back, and others).
In a small village, xenophobic sentiment spreads against an innocent family after the village mascot, a wild dog, is beaten to death.
A devil is shown as an attraction at a funfair, where he asks a visitor to free him. The man sneaks back in the evening, lets the devil out and takes him home...
Go behind the scenes of Luxembourg Song Contest as the final 8 contestants prepare for the big finale.
A man begs his mother for money after their family's fortune falls apart.
After a botched theft, Anaïs finds herself holed up at a friends’ house, whose parents are away. Tensions rise between Anaïs’ crew and their hosts about what to do next, since Anaïs refuses to go back to her children’s home. A story about teenage solidarity and fear of abandonment.
Mill, an undertaker and farmer, and Felten, the organist of the church, live in a small Luxembourg village near the Belgian border. They have been friends for long and have sworn to stand by each other through thick and thin. But this pledge will be challenged both by their love rivalry for Josette and by the War that comes over the village and upsets their lives.
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. Paradoxically, this attempt to incorporate Luxembourg into the Third Reich triggered the nation's self-awareness. Using mostly unseen archive footage, the film tells the story of the clash between ideologies: the Nazi vision of a 'German' Luxembourg, colliding violently with the idea of an independent Grand Duchy. For a people who where becoming aware of their national identity, this was a huge cultural shock. The emotional backbone of the film rests on the many testimonies of the people who lived through that tragic period.
The hopes and disillusions of four lusophone immigrants collide over a period of three years in a chimeric land of plenty called Luxembourg.
LOST IN THE 80s is a documentary about the social, political and cultural situation in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg during the decade oft the 1980’s. Lead by two fictional characters, the narrative aims to depict a profound portrait of what this country looked like more than 30 years ago.
Luxembourg, 2004. An immigrant mother tries to do everything within her power to buy her child a piano for Christmas, navigating the socioeconomic challenges of their everyday life.
Paul, a solitary record dealer attempts to approach a woman he's fascinated by. This situation will soon make him lose control.
A Luxembourgish anthology about radicalization before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In Meadows Wait, Mist Diffuses, Dzhovani Gospodinov captures the enigmatic energies of Hosbësch. Shot over a period of four years with motion sensor cameras and linked to Gospodinov's own fragmentary memories of the site's topography, the film poeticizes the gradual destruction of a landscape and questions the ethics of our intrusion into nature. It moves between voyeurism and introspection and is at the same time a portrait of - and an elegy to - Hosbësch.
The steel industry once put Luxembourg's economy on its feet. After the industry died out, what remained of it was deserted, colossal buildings and lives scarred by unsafe working conditions. However, for many, these hazardous jobs still represented a daily beacon of hope and financial security. This monumental film stands in the memory of the labor that went on behind four factory walls, documenting in “memento mori” fashion the vanishing world of industrial workers.
The documentary film Theater. Kollektiv. tells the story of this extraordinary group through scenes of everyday life, archives, and excerpts from stage plays. Both current and former members, as well as experts from the Luxembourgish cultural scene, share their perspectives.
Think what it would be like for you to create an imaginary world that you could actually visit. Percy and his friends can do precisely that.