The European Parliament awarded on 24 November in a special ceremony this year's LUX Cinema Prize to "Die Fremde", by German woman director Feo Aladağ. The film highlights the problem of "honour killings" by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Germany.

Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek awarded 2010 LUX Cinema Prize to "Die Fremde", by the  director Feo Aladağ, the first woman ever to compete for the prize. The film's lead actress Sibel Kekilli was also at the ceremony, as were representatives of the two other finalists shortlisted for this year's prize: "Akadimia Platonos" by Filippos Tsitos (Greece and Germany) and "Illégal" by Olivier Masset-Depasse (Belgium).

Awarding the prize, President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek highlighted that the three films dealt in a very sensitive way with the issue of identity, and the differences between a collective identity and an individual one. Although depicted in a fictional film, this is a quite important topic as the question on what being European actually means still remains to be answered in an ever more integrated Europe. The nature of citizens identities, local, regional, national or European, have to united in order to create a true European demos. A films are a good way to perform it.

Receiving the prize, Mrs Aladağ said she made Die Fremde because she believed we all live in a multicultural society which can no longer rest on promoting consensus but must rather find new ways in dealing with arising divergence. She added that the LUX Prize is an essential bridge between national identities and beyond. That is why, for her, the European Parliament's commitment to culture and education is of such great importance.

The winner will receive European Parliament funding, worth 90.000 Euro, for subtitling the film in all official EU languages, adapting the original version for visually- or hearing-impaired people and producing a 35 mm print per EU Member State or for the DVD release.