2025 LUX Audience Award Campaign Launches in Malta and Gozo

We’re proud to present this year's edition of the LUX Audience Award, organised by the European Parliament and the European Film Academy.

The LUX Audience Award screenings are back, starting this Sunday in Gozo! This year’s five finalist films will be screened with English and Maltese subtitles—once at Spazju Kreattiv Cinema in Malta and once at Citadel Cinema in Gozo. All screenings are FREE OF CHARGE and open to the public.

The five finalist films are subtitled in the 24 official EU languages and free screenings are organised by the European Parliament in all 27 EU countries, including Malta. In collaboration with the European Parliament Office in Malta, Spazju Kreattiv and The Citadel Cinema are showing all five films in Valletta and Gozo during the months of March and April 2025.

Rate by April 2025 and don't miss the chance to win a range of exciting prizes, including a trip to the European Parliament to attend the LUX Award Ceremony in April 2025 and meet directors and film crews of the nominees. 

“INTERCEPTED”
Directed by Oksana Karpovych | Canada, France, Ukraine | 95 min

Intercepted is an attempt to find an answer by showing two parallel worlds. The camera registers images of destruction in unhurried shots, in which we see Ukrainian villages, towns, houses and motorways after their liberation from the Russian occupation. We listen to the recordings of telephone conversations intercepted in 2022 by the Ukrainian Secret Service between Russian soldiers in trenches in Ukraine and their families.

“ANIMAL”
Directed by Sofia Exarchou| Greece, Austria, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria| 116 min

Under the hot Greek sun, the animateurs at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for the busy touristic season. Kalia is the leader of the pack. Paper decors, glossy costumes and dance shows fill the stage. As summer intensifies and the work pressure builds up, their nights become violent and Kalia's struggle is revealed in the darkness. But when the spotlights turn on again, the show must go on.

“DAHOMEY”
Directed by Mati Diop| France, Senegal, Benin| 67 min  

November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But what attitude to adopt to these ancestors’ homecoming in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.

“JULIE KEEPS QUIET”
Directed by Leonardo van Dijl| Belgium, Sweden| 100 min

As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club's players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet...

“FLOW”
Directed by Gints Zilbalodis| Latvia, France, Belgium| 85 min 

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

Screening schedule:

The Citadel Cinema, Gozo:
Sunday 2nd March, 2025 - Intercepted

Sunday 16th March at 3:30pm – Dahomey

Sunday 23rd March at 3:30pm – Julie Keeps Quiet

Sunday 30th March at 3:30pm – Animal

Sunday 26th April a 3:30pm – Flow

Spazju Kreattiv, Malta:
Tuesday 18th March, 2025 - Intercepted

Wednesday 26th March, 2025 - Animal

Thursday 3rd April, 2025 - Dahomey

Thursday 10th April, 2025 - Julie keeps quiet

Saturday 26th April, 2025 – Flow