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HISTOFEST 2026

With the 2025 edition of the festival we demonstrated that history can be done in a mall, while this year we are putting the Europa Experience / the European Parliament Luxembourg and Ciné Utopia to the test with a focus on…HEROES.

What makes a hero? How has the notion evolved over time: who was regarded as a hero in the past and who is a hero today? Do we need (new) heroes in Europe? If so, which ones and what for? We will look for answers to these and other questions from October 7 to 9, 2026 with the help of the exhibition “The (un)making of heroes” (which will be on display until early November), hands-on activities, three film screenings (all Luxembourg premieres!), and a roundtable.

Our handpicked selection of photographs and (short) films will feature personalities such as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa, Lenin, Leopold II, and Pope John Paul II, but also “ordinary” men and women that find themselves measuring their own lives and deeds against “greatness”. Is heroism, after all, something beyond illustriousness and pedestals?

More info and the full programme of the festival will be published soon.