173 films will be shown in 212 screenings at Lübeck venues during the Nordische Filmtage (Nordic Filmdays). More than 70% of the line-up will be available for streaming by audiences all over Germany.
The film programme is divided into nine sections, comprising films, episodic television, and immersive works from north and northeast Europe. Nordic Shorts will showcase 32 shorts in five compiled blocks, while the Filmforum section will present 36 productions from Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, encompassing 23 narrative features, 14 documentaries, and one TV series. For audiences as young as four, the Children’s and Youth Film section has 29 films for viewing both in the regular programme and in additional school class screenings.
The 64th Nordic Film Days Lübeck will open on 2 November with the Danish documentary “Music for Black Pigeons” byJørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The festival screening will be the film’s German premiere. The festival will also award a total of twelve jury and audience prizes, with a total endowment of € 63,000. That includes the new prize for best Nordic and Baltic short film and the unendowed honorary prize, which this year will go to Icelandic directorFriðrik Þór Friðriksson. On opening night, 2 November, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker will be on hand at Lübeck’s CineStar Filmpalast cinema to personally accept his honorary award. Find the whole festival programme here.
The Nordic Film Days Lübeck, first presented by the Lübeck Film Club in 1956 and taken over by the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in 1971, has one of the longest traditions of any film festival worldwide. It is the only festival in Germany, and the only one on the European continent, which is entirely devoted to the presentation of films from the North and Northeast of Europe.
