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About the Luxembourg City Film Festival

With more than 38,000 participants across all activities, and over 22,000 cinema-goers – a 12.5% increase compared to 2024 – the Luxembourg City Film Festival proudly celebrates an outstanding achievement. It has firmly established itself as the Grand Duchy’s largest annual film event, once again breaking its record for in-theatre attendance.

This 15th anniversary edition – its “Sweet Fifteen” – proved to be an extraordinary milestone, one of the most festive and exhilarating chapters in the history of LuxFilmFest. Festival President Georges Santer emphasised that the Festival is “a renewed achievement when taking stock for the first time. Fifteen years of existence means more than 313,000 visitors, 3,200 national and international guests, 1,327 screenings and seven prizes awarded annually.” According to Artistic Director Alexis Juncosa, “the Festival has the ability to offer a beautiful reading of the world.”

The generosity and availability of the 2025 honourees – filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar and actor/director Tim Roth – will remain legendary, particularly through their masterclasses. Equally memorable was the collective spirit, audacity and cohesion of an exceptional International Jury (Trine Dyrholm, Danish actress; Paul Laverty, British screenwriter; Valerie Pachner, Austrian actress; Albert Serra, Spanish filmmaker; and Jeff Desom, Luxembourgish artist), presided over by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof.

Jointly supported by the Ministry of Culture and the City of Luxembourg, the non-profit association Luxembourg City Film Festival demonstrates, at each edition, dynamism and adaptability in engaging cinephiles, festival-goers, guests, industry professionals and the wider public.

In 2026, the Festival will once again present 11 days of celebrations at its exhibition and conference space in the Cercle Cité (Ratskeller), as well as in Luxembourg City cinemas: the Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg (which, during its renovation, will temporarily relocate to the Théâtre des Capucins), Ciné Utopia, Kinepolis Kirchberg, and its partner venues (Casino Luxembourg and neimënster for the Immersive Pavilion).

The LuxFilmFest is also co-founder of the Europa Film Festivals network, which currently brings together 11 European events, and currently chairs this federation.

The Festival is a driver of positive visibility, but above all an undeniable asset for the country’s image. For its next edition, it seeks to re-engage Luxembourg’s economic stakeholders.