With six Luxembourgish projects on display, this year’s Venice Film Festival served as a victory lap for a modest state with an outsized impact. Boasting 1,200 professionals, a vibrant animation sector, and an output of 25-30 titles per year, the Grand Duchy’s co-production driven ecosystem is all the more remarkable for its relative youth and for the speed of its ascent.
“Thirty-five years ago we had no professional infrastructure and no real audiovisual production,” says Luxembourg Film Fund chief Guy Daleiden. “We had to build everything from the ground up, developing an autonomous sector with production companies and technicians that are now highly regarded across the globe.”
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