Discoveries from Luxembourg World Cinema

Haunted by the recent inexplicable suicide of his wife Bella, renowned Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor Adam Schumacher decides to put Bella’s story in writing and publish it as his final novel. As he is confronted with the onset of dementia, Adam reluctantly reaches out to Max Vérité, Bella’s old lover. Together the writer and his once publisher set out on a journey through their conflicting memories of Bella as they try to breathe life into her story, with all its beauty and pain.

A Luxembourgish anthology about radicalization before and during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A young man can't quite commit to having sex with his girlfriend. Then he meets a mysterious lady in a local bar. Will his girlfriend find out? Will she care?

In the aftermath of a shooting in Naples, Matteo sees all reason to exist crumble. His little boy is dead. His wife, Giuliana, has disappeared. He himself sinks into loneliness and, night after night, in his empty cab, roams the city streets for no reason. But one evening, he lets a strange customer into the car, who offers him a drink in a tiny café as payment for his fare. There, Matteo meets the owner, Garibaldo, the unrepentant priest Don Mazerotti, and above all Professor Provolone, a colorful character, as erudite as he is sulphurous, who makes strange speeches about the reality of the Underworld. And he claims that you can go down there...

Discover the great history of Europe through the small stories of its capitals: Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and Brussels. Three cities that host the main European institutions were chosen after an unfinished battle between national interests, visions of Europe and personalities determined to impose their views. What emerges from this little-known history is the face of Europe today, with its successes and failures, its symbols and its search for legitimacy, which is still shaky. And yet it is running… Colette Flesch, Jean-Claude Juncker, Louis Michel, and Catherine Trautmann share insights into the battles, compromises, and personalities that forged today’s European institutions.

A poetic, solar-powered road movie where two artists walk across nature, weaving forgotten voices and wild landscapes into a collective dream of resilience and renewal.

An elderly couple is trapped in their village near Kyiv as it falls under Russian occupation. When a fire destroys their home, they are forced to seek refuge with neighbors and find a way out.

It follows the difficult relationship between an absent father and a son who has just lost his mother. They come together to work on a film.

Composed exclusively of excerpts from amateur images from the collections of the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel, "D'Schueberfouer" is a journey through the eras of the Luxembourgish funfair. Sounds and images evoke the different emotions and fantasies that the fair can arouse. Film from the CNA archive.

Luxembourg, beginning of the 20th century . A judge and a brigadier investigate difficult crimes which will lead them to explore the margins of a society in full transformation where victims and executioners merge.

Tun is falling madly in love with his co-worker Alex. Which wouldn't be as difficult for him if he wasn't married to Mélissa, who's doing everything to save her couple. The 3 will find themselves in a toxic love triangle.

Franka and Greg, a French woman and an Irish man in their 50s get ready for their first date. They are anxious and try their best to hold their nerve. However, once they meet, things calm down, and an honest, vulnerable, and moving exchange of secrets, confessions and profound truths follows. They are clearly immensely compatible and a great match. But at the peek of their meeting, something changes.

A young man is about to leave Bosnia for Luxembourg in search for a better life there, and says goodbye to the city he grew up in.

The world's strongest man is restless. Georges Christen has won 23 World Records for feats like towing planes with his teeth or bending iron bars. But his medals no longer bring him satisfaction.

Pierre is a very shy man in his sixties, with no family or friends and who just retired. What will he do now?

After a series of stressful events Isabell finds comfort in ritual tasks as she reflects on relationships past and future.

The desert is calling. Yet, it is with the ocean that Fabrizio Maltese’s journey begins. He has accepted Abderrahmane Sissako’s invitation to continue the film he and Pol Cruchten had initiated together. Pol has since passed away. The project he had been dreaming of has thus taken on a new, symbolic dimension. It must see the light of day. This is why Fabrizio has traveled on his own to meet with the Mauritanian director. But fate seems to have decided otherwise. From Saint Louis in Senegal to Nouakchott in Mauritania, from Mata Moulana to Chinguetti, Fabrizio allows himself to get lost alone in the desert, with nothing more than a few scribbled notes jotted down on the piece of paper that was given to him by the two filmmakers.

Over a year, one day each month — the daily life of a young Thai woman living in Amsterdam. She maintains a relationship with her sister living in Bangkok and exchanges with friends she has made there, in an attempt to stay close to her roots and find her place in the Netherlands.

Chris is at a turning point in her life. The morning after her wild 30th birthday party, she wakes up next to an unexpected accomplice: Pablo, a talking monstera plant. How on earth did this happen?

When a parapsychic and a young security guard try to find out where strange sounds, heard in the coffers of a bank, comes from they discover terrifying secrets.

In this VR film, two little sisters prepare for the Day of the Dead in the mystic mountains of Mexico, remembering the stories their shaman granny used to tell. A portal opens as the Mazatec community celebrates and we enter the interactive universe of their ancestors and the spirits of nature, each keeping a secret world to be unveiled.

Dancing Procession in Echternach, 1906.

Three young street artists, who roam the cities as living insect statues, are confronted with the question of what it means to push their art form to perfection.

Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Delphine de Vigan.

Flower Parade in Luxembourg City, July 15, 1906.

Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted by the communist regime, is considered holy by many believers, although he has yet to be canonized.

Minutes before the first day of shooting her feature directorial debut, Matilda battles her own "cinematic shitty committee" of crippling self-doubt and anxiety, which threatens to derail her career.

LARS and CINEXTDOOR have put their heads together to present to you the first edition of KUERZ & KNACKEG: SHORT FILMS MADE IN LUXEMBOURG. From drama to documentary to thriller, we’ll be showing you a wide range of Luxembourgish short-film production since the early 1990s. On the VOL I program: RACCROCHER by Marylène Andrin-Grotz (2025) TOUCH ME / WAS BLEIBT by Eileen Byrne (2018) ROGER by Geneviève Mersch (1996) EN DAG AM FRÄIEN by Govinda van Maele (2012) SNIPER by Pol Cruchten (1994) GLIMMEN / VANISHING by Ken Rischard (2022) The films will be shown in their original Luxembourgish and German versions with English subtitles.

Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mathieu Robin.

A man begs his mother for money after their family's fortune falls apart.

Merging the traditions of art house and splatter, Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City pokes fun at the bloated importance of discursive theories in contemporary art. Cast in an abandoned Venice – a derelict film set in Luxembourg, as it turns out – this short fiction relates a meeting of a curator, a theorist, a painter and a “relational” artist who appear to engage in complex theoretical debates. Their verbal confrontation – a grotesque patchwork of quotes that mocks the art world’s infatuation with sampling and referencing – is punctuated by a string of dreamlike sequences in which the stereotypical characters are seen killing each other in the best tradition of mondo films.

A collection of 4 short films made for "The Unfinished Projects" exhibition of 30 april 2026 Rotterdam. The for short films are titled "kom", "ik", "op" and "terug".

When a hot-headed man is sent to a luxury spa to confront his fatal stress disorder, he’s forced to share his recovery with a cheeky, laid-back patient whose relentless humor might either save his life - or drive him over the edge.

The filmmaker captures daily life in her grandparents' home between painting nails, napping and ironing. Her images are filled with deep emotional attachment and the absurdity of aging.

Computer engineer Jack is sent to join John at the "818" control center and take over a new job. With his new tutor's close supervision, Jack learns to operate a computer system with immense power. Jack soon discovers that John has kept certain aspects of the job hidden from him. Film from the CNA archive.

After a long evening, Camille and Thomas need to get back to their hotel for opposite reasons. It's late and even though they hate each other, they decide to walk home together, through an empty city... is this an opportunity to heal old wounds?

Produced by Sonder for the Lost Weekend 48 Film Challenge organized by FILMREAKTER. The film was required to be sci-fi in genre, feature a toothbrush and the line "I warned you to never push that button"

The Aire de Berchem on the Luxembourg - Dudelange motorway is the most important service station in Europe in terms of fuel flow. Summer and winter, day and night, people of all nationalities, all ages and all social classes meet there in a constant stream of cars and trucks. The film will attempt to highlight both the differences and the similarities in the behavior of this population, which represents a melting pot of Europe.

Shrouded in mystery, our documentary dives into the seldom-told tale of Luxembourg’s emigration to Argentina.

Experimental docu-fiction hybrid GRANDMA'S CHILLIES records the daily life of a Thai expat living in Amsterdam, far away from her family and roots. Because of the pandemic, she has not seen them in almost two years. Her only connection to home are daily conversations with her older sister.

On the eve of their building’s destruction after more than 50 years, how did the Cercle Culturel Curiel and its trattoria, come to have a major influence on the political and cultural life of Luxembourg?

A shark in the reservoir! A push notification from RTL1 turns the entire country upside down. For Joëlle Zander, CEO of RTL1, this is an incredible opportunity to give her new show "Kontext" the much-needed boost. For RTL1 journalists, this is the chance for the best story of the year, eternal fame, and a great career – live from the reservoir. For Luxembourg, it's a day that will change everything forever.

Four siblings find themselves in their family home after the funeral of their two parents who died under strange circumnstances

Benoît, a man living a dull and isolated life after his wife and daughter's departure, receives a jolt of energy from Agathe, the new postmistress. His daily life is now punctuated by a boring job and mysterious letters. Against all odds, Benoît ends up getting attached to the new arrival in town and asks for her help. But what's the point? Film from the CNA archive.

A documentary on the people leading the fight in Cameroon to save from extinction the world's most trafficked mammal: the pangolin.

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.

Christmas magic is dying out while Santa is becoming addicted to his fame. Ellie, a determined elf girl, is convinced that it’s all because of a mysterious creep. She will fight to restore the real magic of Christmas.

Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, MappaMundi takes viewers on an accelerated journey through the 950 million years required for the Earth's development, the 150,000 years of human travel and the 15,000 years of human cartography.

1912 short film on Luxemburg.

A group of friends start a viral trend for Halloween, but when they finally give a forgotten woman her voice, they awaken a past we thought was long forgotten.

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.

A mentally challenged boy gets a visit from his cousin, who brings bad news.

Dive into a sun-drenched celebration of love in all its forms with KUERZ & KNACKEG: SHORTFILMS MADE IN LUXEMBOURG – VOLUME 2: MEET THE LOVERS, curated by yours truly LARS and Cinextdoor. This second edition of our short film program, dedicated to Luxembourgish talent, invites you to laugh, sigh, and maybe even shed a tear as it explores the highs of romance, the pangs of heartbreak, and the quirks of human connection. From whimsical encounters to raw emotional battles, these five local short films—told in Luxembourgish, English, French, Spanish, and German (all shown with english subs)—capture the universal language of love. SUPERHERO by Emile V. Schlesser (2020) AND HE SAID YES by Gintare Parulyte (2022) NUCLEAIRE by Roxanne Peguet (2022) TOI AUSSI CA TE CHATOUILLE by Lucia Valverde (2019) WAT DENG AEN MIR SOEN by Alexandra Kurt and Joshua Thil (2025)