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Sunset Cinema
logistics. The projection building takes the form of the light beam as a leading principle.
The floor thus becomes a slope that serves as the basis for the seatings. The wall onto which the films are projected forms the screen. This wall is an existing wall and part of the neighbouring building. Between the projection building and the screen a small space is left open; also people outside the building can follow the screening without necessarily being inside. The box with logistics offers space for bar, storage and meeting place.

Sunset Cinema is run by the Luxemburg based film club Filmreakter. The film program starts from sunset onwards; hence its name. When there is no screening, Sunset Cinema will create - by it presence - an urban space 'infested with promise and expectation'. The square around Sunset Cinema allows the already existing space to come alive, as it can function as an open-air terrace.

Filmreakter shows new and old material from their members, Open Screen programs and invites different generations of Luxemburg filmmakers
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to program an evening. Next to that we invited several initiatives outside Luxembourg to program a night.

Sunset Cinema not only wants to generate a platform for producers from Luxemburg, it also wants be an activator for exchange, a possibility to contribute, make, and show.
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