On April 24 in Paris, new artistic director Edouard Waintrop revealed the 21 features (of which 18 international premieres) in the line-up this year at the 44th Directors’ Fortnight from May 17 to 27 at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. The selection, said to have been chosen to delight audiences notably with many comedies, features eight European productions by French, Belgian, Spanish, Swiss, and British filmmakers, and six European co-productions.

Honorary President of the LUX Prize Selection Panel, Radu Mihaileanu, will be one of the speakers of the public hearing on "Defining the future EU culture and media programmes", organised by the Committee on Culture and Education this Thursday (26/04).

The XIII Edition of the Lecce European Film Festival which will be held from 17 to 21 April will host once again the 2011 LUX Prize Winner Film, The Snows of Kilimandjaro, as a special event followed by a roundtable.

On April 10, The Information Office of the European Parliament in Barcelona organises a special day dedicated to the winner film of 2011 LUX Prize, The Snows of Kilimandjaro.

On 23rd May, the Festival de Cannes will welcome the jury for the Cinéfondation and short films, presided over this year by Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgian director, scriptwriter and producer), who shared the honours of the Grand Prix with his brother Luc for The Kid with a Bike in 2011, after winning two Palmes d’Or, first in 1999 for Rosetta and then in 2005 for The Child, and the prize for best screenplay in 2008 for Lorna’s Silence.