Details:

The 8th annual Luxembourg City Film Festival will take place from 22 February to 4 March 2018 at cinemas including the Cinémathèque, Kinepolis-Luxembourg and Ciné Utopia, with the festival headquarters at Casino Luxembourg, with other events being held at Mudam, the Abbaye de Neumunster, Cercke Cité and the Rotondes.

The opening film will be The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey (animated, in English), a Luxembourg co-production. The Death of Stalin by Armando Iannucci will be screened at the awards evening, with Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson (live action motion) set to close the festival.

Other notable (documentary) films to be screened (in competition) include: A Woman Captured; Amal; Devil’s Freedom; Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle; Of Fathers and Sons; and Over the Limit (in Russian).

For the official competition: Disappearance (in Persian); Foxtrot (in Hebrew); Free and Easy (in Chinese); Gutland (in Luxembourgish, mystery/thriller); Holiday (in Danish & English); Lean on Pete by Andrew Haigh (in English, drama); Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (in Indonesian, drama); Pity (in Greek, drama); Pororoca (in Romanian, drama); Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton (in English, western).

Other films to be screened include: A Prayer Before Dawn (in Thai & English, drama); All You Can Eat Buddha (in Spanish & French); Bad Banks (in German, thriller); Beyond Dreams (in Swedish, drama); Brimstone & Glory (in Spanish, documentary); Columbus (in English, drama); Don’t Worry, we won’t get far on Foot (in English, drama); Gook (in Korean and English, drama); Have you seen my movie? (In English, drama); Holy Camp (in Spanish, drama); Liyana (in English, doc); Samui Song (in Japanese, thriller); The Third Murder (in Japanese).

Full details, including programming, see www.luxfilmfest.lu, with ticketing (€7/adult; €5/reduced) from midday Friday 2 February from www.luxembourg-ticket.lu

Venue: various - see above

Organiser: Luxembourg City Film Festival

Price: €7/adult; €5/reduced

Reservations: www.luxembourg-ticket.lu

URL: For details, see www.luxfilmfest.lu