The Award Winners of the 50th Nordic Film Days
(2008 11 26 18:02)
The Norwegian feature film "The Man Who Loved Yngve" by director Stian Kristiansen has won the NDR Award for Best Feature Film. The film tells the story of a schoolboy’s painful coming-out in the eighties. The jury praised the “incredible lightness, warmth and humour” of the film. The much-desired LN Audience Prize also went to a Norwegian film: “The Kautokeino Rebellion” by Nils Gaup is about a Sami rebellion in 19th century Norway.
The Baltic Films Prize was awarded to the Danish romantic drama “Dancers” by Pernille Fischer Christensen: “a film that delicately suceeds in restoring belief in life” The Swedish documentary “Herdswoman” by Kine Bomann depicts the life of three reindeer-keepers in Northern Sweden and received the Documentary Film Prize. The Children’s and Youth Film Prize went to “Fightgirl Ayse” by the Danish director Natasha Arthy: the youth drama tells of the inner conflicts of a schoolgirl torn between Islamic family traditions and her love for kung fu. The Norwegian contribution “SOS – Summer of Suspense” by Arne Lindtner Næss, about a girl’s fight for a baby seal’s life, was awarded the Prize of the Children’s Jury.
In its anniversary year, the festival reached a new record audience figure: it was attended by the audience of around 24,000. As the audience figures had been on a steady increase throughout the past years, the organizers had decided first on a prolongation of the festival to five days and then on an additional increase in the number of cinema screens. For the first time, the Nordic Film Days thus presented its films in two cinemas at Lübecker Filmhaus
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