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OF FILM MAKERS the Magical Garden
Tall Tales from
of Antoon Krings
STEPS FORTH

Facts & FEATURE-FILM, ANIMATION AND VR CREATIVES and the Luxembourg City Film Festival has become the
perfect platform for showcasing the prowess of national film
FROM THE GRAND DUCHY ARE INCREASINGLY
production. Year after year, the City Film Festival attracts
figures TAKING THEIR PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE. ever-greater numbers of cinephiles and enquiring minds,
with attendee figures falling just shy of 30,000 last year.
By Loïc Millot, Cineuropa.org
● Population: SUPPORTING ROLES
590,000 Also in existence since the end of the 1980s are two public
● Movie theatres: institutions. The first, founded in 1989, is the Centre
12 – 36 digital screens National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA), now headed up by Paul
● 2017 admissions: INCE the end of the 1980s, we have witnessed Lesch, whose principal mission is to ensure the protection
1,176,389 the emergence and the increasing of audio-visual heritage, the promotion of Luxembourg
professionalism of the film industry in audio-visual creations and the production of audio-visual
Luxembourg. The Grand Duchy has used its works, for example the documentary directed by Fränz
S modest proportions to its advantage and, Hausemer, Un Noir parmi nous (Schwaarze Mann, 2018).
following the Hollywood example, this small-scale territory The following year, in 1990, the National Support Fund
now boasts a full range of services, not to mention for Audio-Visual Production was created, more widely
BOX OFFICE infrastructure, for the production and distribution of films known as the Film Fund Luxembourg (FFL). Led by Guy
2017 made in, or with, Luxembourg. It hosts somewhere in the Daleiden, the FFL — which might be considered the
region of 20 production companies, as well as a dozen equivalent of the Centre National du Cinéma in France
(LUXEMBOURG PRODUCTIONS studios specialising in animation and virtual reality. — is responsible for implementing the overall government
AND CO-PRODUCTIONS) Meanwhile, the Filmland site, based in Kehlen’s industrial policy for the support of audio-visual productions. The
zone, offers workshops, offices and an impressive studio budget allocated these past three years (2015-2017) has
space measuring 4,000 sq m. Three of its productions will totalled €100m and, in 2017 funds were awarded to 65
Rusty Boys
Rusty Boys
1 soon be hitting the screens: Dreamland by Bruce McDonald, out of the 97 candidate projects. The €33m available this
By Andy Bausch
Zëmmer ze verlounen, a series by Marco Serafini, and Justice. year are divided between a selective fund for production
Tall Tales from the Magical Garden net, from Pol Cruchten (Iris Production). At last count, in (€29m distributed among 25 projects) and a fund for
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of Antoon Krings addition to the Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg, scriptwriting (€1.5m across 31 projects). Gutland, for
By Antoon Krings and Arnaud Bouron a network of 12 movie theatres criss-crossed the country, example, the first full-length feature film directed by
Richard the Stork and, over recent years, two festivals have become a key part Govinda Van Maele, was selected during the most recent
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By Toby Genkel and Reza Memari of Luxembourg’s cultural landscape. CinEast is dedicated International Film Festival in Toronto and obtained close
to films from the former satellite states of the Soviet Union, to €2m from the FFL. In addition to this, the Fund
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