Welcome French film director Philippe Lioret was the winner of the third edition of the LUX Prize for cinema of the European Parliament. "Welcome" competed in the final two films: The Bulgarian-Swedish coproduction Plays Eastern Kamen Kalev and Sturm Hans Christian Schmid (Germany, Denmark, Netherlands) A panel of seventeen experts from the film world (producers, distributors, festival directors, critics, etc.) was in charge of choosing the finalists films LUX film prize of the European Parliament and that list the 736 MEPs elected as winning film Welcome.
Many of the candidates in this issue deal with subjects such as solidarity, immigration, justice, civil liberties or fundamental rights because the award is a recognition of the importance of the role of cinema in the process European construction.
The criteria for selection is that these films are a reflection of the cultural diversity of the old continent, and the debate on the integration of Europa.WELCOME tells the story of Bial, a 17-year-old from Kurdistan Iran across the Middle East and Europe to meet with his girlfriend recently emigrated to England. But his tour stops abruptly when, on the French side, keep her from crossing the Channel. Decides to swim across the channel.
To meet its objective, begins training at the municipal pool. There she meets Simon, a swimming instructor in the process of divorce. Simon is willing to do whatever it takes to get his wife back and risk everything to provide protection to Bilal.
Lux Awards were born in 2007 with the aim of supporting European cinema and to facilitate the distribution of films within the European Union. LUX Prize is valued at € 87,000, for finance and kinescoping subtitles in 23 languages \u200b\u200bof the European Union, as well as localized versions for deaf and invidentes.GOLEM distributed in Spain for the second time this award winning film and in 2007, the year of BIRTH, THE OTHER SIDE Fatih Akin won the award. Welcome
is scheduled to release date on 12 febrero.Más information: http://www.lux-prize.eu/index_en.htm
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