With past winners being The Broken Circle Breakdown and Lorna’s Silence and past finalists being 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Attenberg and The Selfish Giant, the annual LUX prize (an annual spotlight on films that go to the heart of the European public debate) acts as a barometer for the latest in solid European fare. Announced yesterday at the Karlovy Vary Film Fest, this year’s batch of noms include several Cannes winners in Alice Rohrwacher’s sophomore, Main Comp selected, Grand Prix winning family drama, Kornél Mundruczó’s Un Certain Regard winning film with a little bit, and Ruben Östlund darkly comical slope-side gem. If I were a betting man, my two euros is on Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida. Here are the ten, with attached trailers:
Beautiful Youth (Hermosa Juventud) – (Jaime Rosales) – Spain, France
Class Enemy (Razredni Sovraznik) – (Rok Biček) – Slovenia
Force Majeure (Turist) – (Ruben Östlund) – Sweden, Denmark, France, Norway
Girlhood (Bande De Filles) – (Céline Sciamma) – France
Ida – (Pawel Pawlikowski) – Poland, Denmark
Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai) – Austria
Stations Of The Cross (Kreuzweg) – (Dietrich Brüggemann) – Germany, France
White God (Feher Isten) – (Kornél Mundruczó) – Hungary, Germany, Sweden
The Wonders (Le Meraviglie) – (Alice Rohrwacher) – Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Xenia (Panos H. Koutras) – Greece, France, Belgium
