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Marina, a twenty-three year-old girl, lives with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance. Instead she stubbornly observes it through songs of suicide, the mammal documentaries of Sir David Attenborough and the sex education lessons she receives from her only friend, Bella. A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a table football duel, on her own table. Meanwhile, her father ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be “overrated.” Caught between the two men and her collaborator Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of human fauna.
ATTENBERG
by Athina Rachel Tsangari2010, 95’
Greece
Original version: GreekSubtitles: English, French
We have the pleasure to invite you to the 2011 edition of the LUX Prize which opens on 11 October and will close on 16 November with the Award ceremony.
This forward-looking initiative is celebrating its fifth year. Since its inception in 2007, the LUX Prize has increasingly gained recognition, both within the European Parliament and beyond, in local communities across the continent.
The LUX Prize has sought to present films that crystallise debates that occur daily as Members of the European Par-liament: immigration, justice, solidarity, public freedoms or fundamental rights, economic crisis and solidarity.
The LUX Prize is not only crucial support to European film industry: it has also become a tool to meet with European citizens and to discuss these issues.
Each film awarded by our Institution has always offered a glimpse into the lives of Europeans, their convictions and doubts, their quest for identity.
The LUX Prize filmography also brings the European Parlia-ment’s policies and initiatives closer to citizens. Our events which accompany the LUX Prize films have stimulated enlightening debates on subjects which, with the inevitable differences from one country to the other, are common to the Twenty-Seven as a whole.
We firmly believe, as the «Polish Film Week» recently did, that the ability to convey values through the emotional and shared language of cinema can invigorate the process of European integration and mutual recognition of the Other.
In conclusion, we hope that you will enjoy the LUX Prize 2011 Competition as much as we do.
Isabelle DurantVice-President
Doris PackPresident of the Committeeon Culture and Education
3 Original and Sensitive European FilmsThe three films in Competition for the LUX Prize 2011 bring an original and sensitive insight into themes which are in line with the four previous editions of the LUX Prize:
Attenberg, directed by Greek Athina Rachel Tsangari, is a tender but deadpan anthropological black comed.It is an imaginative curio of animal gestures whose emotional power creeps up on you.
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro, directed by French Robert Guédiguian, is a deeply moving human drama, loosely inspired by Victor Hugo poem Les pauvres gens, full of tolerance and very much aware of contemporary social issues.
Play, directed by Swedish Ruben Östlund, is intelligently observed game of mindsets in black and white dispositions where youngsters in Sweden are manipulatively robbed of their mobile phones and wallets by the gang of other youths.
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1 VoteMEPs are invited to cast their vote from 11 October to 15 November via luxprize.eu/vote. Each has one vote only, regardless of the number of films she or he has seen. The LUX Prize 2011 Award ceremony will take place in the Chamber on 16 Novem-ber in Strasbourg.
15 Tickets to WinComplete your e-mail address on your magnet (available at the bars), place it on the LUX Prize stands built up for this purpose and win tickets for opera at cinema*.* In partnership with UGC; refer to www.luxprize.eu/win
Although he has lost his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. They’ve been in love for 30 years, are fulfilled as parents and grand-parents, have close friends and are proud of their trade union and political battles. This happiness is shattered along with their French window when two young armed and masked men hit them, tie them up, pull off their wedding rings and make off with their credit cards. Their distress is all the more acute when they find out the attack was organised by a young worker made redundant at the same time as Michel. However, they gradually discover that their attacker, Christophe, only acted out of necessity: he lives alone with his two little brothers and does an admirable job of looking after them, attending to their education and health. Their mother left them to live her own life and they never knew their father. Michel and Marie-Claire thus decide to look after the two little brothers while they wait for Christophe to be released from prison.
In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of black boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 70 occasions between 2006 - 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the ‘brother trick’, involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric. They did not have to resort to physical violence or threats. Play is an astute and humorous observation, based on real cases of bullying, that deliberately plays with preconceptions, and our expectations that it’s all going to end badly.
LEs NEiGEs du KiLimANdjARo ThE SNowS of KilimANjARo
PLAY PlAY
by Ruben Östlund2011, 113’Sweden, france, Denmark
original version: Swedish Subtitles: English, french
by Robert Guédiguian2011, 107’
france
original version: french Subtitles: English, German
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