LUX Audience Award: Film INTERCEPTED at the Kinodrom
The five films nominated for the LUX Audience Award will be subtitled in 24 European languages in order to make them accessible to the widest possible audience in European cinemas. The third film in the Bocholt 2025 series, the film INTERCEPTED, will be shown on 7 February.
© LUX audience award
The LUX Audience Award, organised since 2020 by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy in cooperation with the European Commission and Europa Cinema, combines the ratings of the European audience with the ratings of MEPs, half of which are included in the final result.
The LUX Film Prize was launched by the European Parliament in 2007 to support the circulation of films of high artistic quality produced in the EU. The nominated films reflect the cultural diversity in Europe and deal with themes such as human dignity, equality, non-discrimination, integration, tolerance, justice and solidarity.
Cinema-goers can rate the films on the voting platform https://luxaward-rating.europarl.europa.eu/de/ until the end of March 2025. The winning film will be announced at a ceremony in the European Parliament in April 2025.
In Bocholt, the events of the LUX Audience Award 2025 are supported by the Europa-Union Bocholt e.V., the German-French Society e.V., the BELC network and the VHS Bocholt.
What is the film INTERCEPTED about?
INTERCEPTED is a documentary film from the year 2024 from Canada, France and Ukraine
What drives people to invade another country and start a war? The film "INTERCEPTED" explores this question and shows two parallel worlds. The audience is shown images of destruction in slow tracking shots. We see Ukrainian villages, towns, houses and streets after their liberation from Russian occupation. We take a closer look: What we see is not destruction and death, but landscapes that are being filled with life again. The film conveys hope - and tackles the numbness caused by the mass of horrific images in the media. It provides a framework for the flood of images. The soundtrack stands in shocking contrast to the visual material. The film is accompanied by recordings of telephone conversations between Russian soldiers in the trenches in Ukraine and their families, which were intercepted by the Ukrainian secret service in 2022. It is difficult to decide which is more disturbing: the soldiers' confessions of having raped, robbed and brutally tortured Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war, or the (mainly) female voices "at home" exposed to chauvinism and hatred, disinformation and schizophrenic propaganda. Sound and image collide perplexingly - only the filmic path makes it possible to bring them together.
Tickets
Tickets are available from Kinodrom Bocholt at: https: //www.kinodrom.de/event/110535 or at the cinema box office and are free of charge.
Questions?
Please contact europe-direct(at)bocholt(dot)de.
EUROPE DIRECT Bocholt is part of the mayor's office of the city of Bocholt and is the local contact point for questions relating to the European Union. Its task is to provide local citizens with information, advice, help and answers to questions about Europe. In addition, EUROPE DIRECT Bocholt aims to promote European involvement and provide information on current European political events.