LUX Audience Award 2025 Nominees Include Oscar-Winning ‘Flow’ and Ukraine War Doc ‘Intercepted’
variety.comRafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The largest audience award in the world, the LUX Audience Award, sees citizens and members of the democratically elected European Parliament coming together yearly to honor a European film with their coveted prize.
This year’s slate of highly-acclaimed nominees include Gints Zibalodis’s history-making “Flow,” which just won Latvia its first ever Oscar for Best Animated Film, and Mati Diop’s “Dahomey,” the first film by a Black filmmaker to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
A joint initiative of the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in collaboration with the European Commission and Europa Cinemas, the LUX Audience Award “fosters dialogue and engagement between politics and the public through the medium of film.” Nominated films address “European values” as well as raising “awareness about some of today’s main social and political issues.” Throughout the competition period, the European Parliament provides subtitles in 24 EU languages and organizes free screenings across all European Union member states.
Previous winners of the LUX Audience Award include Lukas Dhont’s “Close” and Jasmila Žbanić’s “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Voting for the LUX Audience Award closes in April, followed by an awards ceremony on a date yet to be confirmed.
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