Nordic Film Days Lübeck Diese Seite auf deutsch

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 in Europe apart from the event later founded in Rouen, France, which is entirely devoted to the presentation of films from the North and Northeast of Europe.

Feature films, documentaries and short films from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden are presented at this four-day event every year at the beginning of November. In addition, there is an extensive children's and youth film programme and a retrospective devoted to important eras, specific genres or famous persons of film history. Accompanying the film programme are seminars, discussions and roundtable talks.

The Nordic Film Days Lübeck is both an audience festival and an important meeting place for the film industry in Germany and northern Europe. Many directors whose debut works were presented in Lübeck have gone on to earn fame around the world - such as Bille August, Lasse Hallström, Aki Kaurismäki or Fridrik Thór Fridriksson.

The Nordic Film Days Lübeck is put on by the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in cooperation with the film institutes and foundations of Scandinavia as well as the corresponding film institutions in the Baltic countries. Patrons of the festival are the ambassadors of the Nordic countries in Germany. Honorary President is the Norwegian actress and film director Liv Ullmann. Media partner is the television and radio broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

Altogether 8 prizes are being given every year, for details please see Awards.

For the regulations please see Filmanmeldung.

Filmforum Schleswig-Holstein Diese Seite auf deutsch

After the Nordic Film Days Lübeck and the Husum Film Days, the Filmforum Schleswig-Holstein is the third oldest film festival in Schleswig-Holstein, having been launched in 1988. The festival presents feature films, documentaries, shorts and animation films that are related to the Land Schleswig-Holstein through location, subject matter, origin of the filmmaker or film subsidy.

The Filmforum is a showcase for the film production of Schleswig-Holstein and offers filmmakers the opportunity to present their films to an international audience on their own home territory. The Nordic Film Days Lübeck supply the films with extensive press and publicity coverage. Films from the Filmforum Schleswig-Holstein participate in the competition for the Documentary Prize of the Lübeck Trade Unions. Short films (up to 15 min.) in the Filmforum also compete for the ComLine Prize, consisting of editing software worth 800 euros donated by the ComLine company.

Many filmmakers have received invitations to other festivals at home and abroad thanks to their participation in the Filmforum Schleswig-Holstein. Many others have found distribution or world sales representatives through the festival. Not least of all, the Filmforum Schleswig-Holstein is extremely popular with the audience in Lübeck. The Filmforum Schleswig-Holstein is presented within the framework of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck by the Kommunales Kino of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, with the support of the Minister for Education, Science, Research and Culture of the Land Schleswig-Holstein.

For the regulations please see Filmanmeldung.