IMMERSIVE PAVILION 2026

Presented for the first time across three emblematic venues in Luxembourg City – neimënster, Mudam and Villa Louvigny – the Immersive Pavilion 2026 showcases cutting-edge works in virtual, augmented and mixed reality, alongside sonic installations competing for the “Best Immersive Experience” at the Luxembourg City Film Festival. Luxembourg City Film Festival. The jury for the 2026 competition is made up of three international experts who will award a prize of €5,000 for the «Best Immersive Experience». The three members of the jury are : Jordana Leigh, Julie Gayet and Abderrahmane Sissako.

This 9th edition invites visitors into poetic, introspective and playful worlds where imagination meets technology. Documentary, fiction, animation and interactive storytelling explore experiences of loss, trauma and healing, as well as narratives rooted in ancestral histories, sound archives and collective memory. Other works confront social and environmental crises such as injustice, ecological collapse, forced migration and gentrification with urgency and creative force, advocating for community, multiculturalism and environmental awareness.

This edition also pays tribute to Craig Quintero - a loyal Pavillon artist and winner of the Best Immersive Experience Award at the Luxembourg City Film Festival 2023 - through Just for You, a trilogy of his acclaimed VR works.

The Immersive Pavilion is curated by the Film Fund Luxembourg and PHI Montreal in partnership with the Luxembourg City Film Festival, neimënster and Mudam.

IMMERSIVE PAVILION 2026 : 5 - 22 March 2026

Participants must be at least 8 years old. Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult to use the virtual reality headsets.

IN COMPETITION 2026

CRAIG QUINTERO

This year, Immersive Pavilion 2026 pays tribute to Craig Quintero, a long-standing Pavilion artist whose work is internationally recognised. His trilogy Just For You — All That Remains, Over the Rainbow and A Simple Silence - proposes a theatre of the subconscious, where the spectator discovers meticulously composed tableaux oscillating between tenderness, strangeness and revelation. Rooted in his collaboration with the Riverbed Theatre in Taipei, Quintero's VR works open up silent confrontations with vulnerability, desire and the strange intimacy of being seen.

On show at Mudam from 5 to 22 March. 

VIDEOGAMES MADE IN LUXEMBOURG

The “Videogames made in Luxembourg” exhibition, organised by the LVGA and the Film Fund Luxembourg, highlights the diversity and dynamism of Luxembourg’s video game scene. Studios and creators showcase a wide range of projects: mobile games, puzzle games, arcade titles, sports games, card-stacking and visual novels. Each one reflects local creativity and invites the public to explore a fast-growing sector that plays an increasingly important role in the country’s cultural landscape.

PARTNERS

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

As part of the Luxembourg City Film Festival, in collaboration with Innovative Initiatives (Digital Luxembourg) and the PHI Centre in Montreal, the Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle (Film Fund Luxembourg) has been organising the Virtual Reality Pavilion since 2017. The VR Pavilion has been hosted at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain until 2019. Since 2020, the installations have taken up residence in Neimënster (Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster) where the public can discover free of charge innovative and award-winning works shot in virtual and augmented reality.

VR DAY

Since 2018, Pavillon VR has been organising the VR DaySince 2018, Pavillon VR has been organising the VR DayThis annual event offers a unique opportunity for all professionals in the sector to learn, discuss the challenges facing the sector, the potential of this technology to reinvent history through new perspectives, and the latest developments in the field. This annual event offers all professionals in the sector a unique opportunity to learn, discuss the challenges facing the sector, the potential of this technology to reinvent history through new perspectives, and Luxembourg's ambitions in this area. There will also be special presentations of virtual reality projects in development.

GAME JAM

Since 2023, the Virtual Reality Pavilion has hosted the " Game Jam. which brings together programming students from the BTS Game Programming and Game DesignThey were invited to create a video game based on the "made in Luxembourg" theme.

Participants engage in an intense and exciting 48-hour competition, where they have the opportunity to bring their own video game to life. During the event, students are grouped into teams, combining their knowledge, skills and passion for technology to demonstrate just how much a team can achieve, even in a very short space of time, when given the right tools. At the same time, professionals and developers from the Luxembourg film and animation industry set the rules of the game, observe, evaluate and share their expertise with the teams.

VR TO GO

VR to GO is an initiative that allows the curious to discover virtual reality technology and bring the general public closer to new, creative and award-winning works. The "To Go" formula, with its rental VR headsets, is a solution developed in Montreal by the PHI Centre, a trusted partner of the Pavilion. It offers a selection of films from the Cinéma VR programme, giving spectators the chance to extend the festival experience from the comfort of their own homes. The formula was tested in 2021, 2022 and 2023, and was a great success.