Fiction film “Home” nominated for the Prix Lumières in Paris
08.01.2009
Ursula Meier’s fiction film “Home” (Box Productions, Lausanne), a Swiss-French-Belgian co-production, has been nominated with four other films for the 14th Prix Lumières in the category “Best French Film”. The award ceremony will be held in Paris at the City Hall on January 19, 2009. The Lumières Awards were initiated by the international press based in Paris and is the Gallic equivalent of the American Golden Globes. The film “Home” – starring Isabelle Huppert and Olivier Gourmet in the leading roles – will be released mid-February in cinemas in the German-speaking region of Switzerland.
At this year’s edition of the Prix Lumières, a total of ten awards will be presented to the best French or Francophone films made for cinema during the past year. Approximately 200 media correspondents from fifty countries will converge in Paris to form the “Académie des Lumières” and decide on the winners of the award. The “Académie des Lumières” was initiated and founded by Toscan du Plantier and the American journalist Edward Behr in 1995.
Apart from being nominated for the Lumières Awards, the editorial staff and Internet users of the French film magazine Télérama have placed “Home” on the list of “Best 15 Films in 2008”. The film will be screened at the Festival Cinéma Télérama, which takes place in all participating French art-house cinemas from January 21-27, 2009.
Geneva, January 8, 2008
Les Lumières
Apart from being nominated for the Lumières Awards, the editorial staff and Internet users of the French film magazine Télérama have placed “Home” on the list of “Best 15 Films in 2008”. The film will be screened at the Festival Cinéma Télérama, which takes place in all participating French art-house cinemas from January 21-27, 2009.
Geneva, January 8, 2008
Les Lumières