Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden • Directors of Becoming Mona cineuropa.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cineuropa.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Quo vadis, Aida? triumphs at the 11th Luxembourg City Film Festival
Quo vadis, Aida? by Jasmila Žbanić
Despite the pandemic, the main film festival in the Grand Duchy has one more time managed to come out on top. The figures of this 11th Luxembourg City Film Festival speak for themselves: 4,200 viewers attended the physical screenings between 4 and 14 March, which translates to screening rooms nearly 80% full. To these results, which far exceed the expectations of the event’s organiser, we must add the 3,000 who attended the exhibition
Ready. Set. Design. Film sets in Luxembourg which took place at the Cercle Cité. Regarding the festival’s online offering, its platform (hosted on the FestivalScope/Shift72 system) has garnered some 20,000 viewings: a very encouraging result, despite the content being geo-blocked to people outside of Luxembourg (the event thus having to do without its French and German neighbours, who are usually very fond of the festival).
Quo vadis, Aida? triumphs at the 11th Luxembourg City Film Festival cineuropa.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cineuropa.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Edward Brooke-Hitching in conversation with John Lloyd
This is an online event. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time
Edward Brooke-Hitching talks to TV producer and writer John Lloyd (
Blackadder, QI and much more) about his new book
The Madman’s Library, a journey that takes us into the darkest territories of literature, to hunt down the very strangest books ever written and uncover the fascinating stories behind their creation.
From a gorgeously decorated 15th-century lawsuit filed by the Devil against Jesus to a 605-page Qur an written in the blood of Saddam Hussein, to the lost art of binding books with human skin, every strand of strangeness imaginable (and many inconceivable) has been unearthed. Books that hoaxed the globe and books invisible to the naked eye, books of code and cypher whose secrets remain undiscovered… and others that are just plain weird. Several have been uncover