Despite the coronavirus crisis, the gathering has just unveiled its winners’ list and enjoyed a strong edition. Ten years after it was created, the Luxembourg City Film Festival can now congratulate itself on the dazzling progress it has made since then. The professional maturity with which the organisers have been able to raise the profile of this now unmissable European rendezvous certainly commands respect. Among the event’s myriad guardian angels is the chair of the board of directors, Colette Flesch, the first woman to be elected burgomaster of Luxembourg in 1970, and formerly the Minister of Foreign Affairs, of Foreign Trade, of Overseas Development, of Finance and of Justice during the 1980s. Now having reached the tenth edition of what was deemed "a gamble on the future" back in 2011, a satisfied and confident Mrs Flesch publicly announced that she was stepping down from the organisation team during the opening...
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