The Luxembourg City Film Festival documentary jury, comprising Fanny Barrot (Co-General Delegate of the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival), Laure Bonville (Programmer BFI), Alejandro Díaz Castaño (Programmer Gijón International Film Festival), Franck Finance-Madureira (President of the Queer Palm) and Valeria Wagner (Programmer Zurich Film Festival), awarded the Documentary Award, offered by BGL BNP PARIBAS and endowed with a cash prize of €5,000, to Reas by Lola Arias.
Reas is a creative queer musical in which the former inmates of a women’s prison in Buenos Aires rewrite their own life stories and perform them as vogue and song numbers about trading cigarettes for friends and dreaming of freedom.
A Special Mention was given to Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate.
The 2030 Award by Luxembourg Aid & Development,that comes with a cash prize of €7,500, was awarded to Tatiana Huezo’s The Echo by jury members Laurent Moyse (author and journalist), Anne Schroeder (producer) and Ibrahim Soumahoro (scriptwriter, director and animator). The film’s logline reqads how, in a remote village in Mexico existing outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders, learning to understand death, illness and love from their parents.
Colored: The Unknown Life of Claudette Colvin by Stéphane Foenkinos and Pierre-Alain Giraud won the VR Award. The jury gave a Special Mention to The Fury by Shirin Neshat. This year’s jury members were Delphine Munro, Head of Arts and Culture at the European Investment Bank; Emily Paige Founder and Producer at E.D. Films; and Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director at VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival.
