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What the Press had to say about the 46th Nordic Film Days Lübeck The press coverage of the 46th Nordic Film Days Lübeck was extensive and diverse, as usual. There was much praise, and yet critical advice was also offered. Whether in television or radio, Internet or film magazine, regional or national newspaper - the Nordic Film Days met with a lively response that was even felt abroad. We are ever so pleased that our friends from the North enjoy the enthusiasm of the Lübeck audience year after year. "In Lübeck we feel like European champions!" wrote the Aftenposten, for example. Numerous commentaries focused on the professionalism of the festival direction and the high quality of the film programme. "An outstanding mixture of cineastic quality and entertainment value", noted the Flensburger Tageblatt. The festival was "eloquent testimony to a magnificent art of film", according to film-dienst. As in past years a number of publications pointed out that the festival has reached the limits of its capacity. In this respect the film magazine filmecho-filmwoche suggested that "less quantity" might mean "more quality". Nevertheless, said the tageszeitung, the Nordic Film Days "have preserved their intimacy despite growing superlatives." We are extremely grateful to all representatives of the press for their wide-ranging and varied reporting. In particular we thank our media partner NDR for their extensive and competent reporting in radio and television over the years. We are also grateful to our colleagues from the Offener Kanal Lübeck for their outstanding commitment. And thanks especially to the Lübecker Nachrichten, whose generous support and extensive coverage make the festival known throughout the region. We are looking forward to seeing you at the coming Nordic Film Days Lübeck (3 - 6 November 2005). Don't forget, as the film-dienst noted: "Put a big mark in next year's calendar for the first weekend in November!" Selected Press Quotes "The 46th Nordic Film Days earned praise in the media for the high quality of its film programme and the great number of films dealing with difficult situations in everyday life." "As always the atmosphere was excellent at this time-honoured event. This year 134 films […] were shown, most of them three times, within four days filled with films until late at night. In sold-out houses. This enthusiasm makes the filmmakers from the North feel like the European champions!" "In the past few years the Nordic Film Days have been transformed from a cineastic family reunion into a professional festival. Carrying on from the former artistic director Andrea Kunsemüller, under the artistic direction of Linde Fröhlich the Nordic Film Days have achieved a sharper profile as an audience festival due to a more successful programme selection. … A trace of dream factory lies over the festival programme, in which Linde Fröhlich has again this year succeeded in providing an outstanding mixture of cineastic quality and entertainment value." "The cultural life of the city is unthinkable without the Nordic Film Days. Rather, they could use a few more screens (or festival days) so as not to have to send the patiently cuing cineastes home - some 20,000 visitors crowded into the mostly overflowing theatres. … [And the festival] was eloquent testimony to a magnificent art of film, the appreciation of which would fill entire film magazines. Therefore: put a big mark in next year's calendar for the first weekend in November." "The Nordic Film Days are among the must-see events for cineastes. Here you can experience premieres before the Berlinale and sharpen your view of the near and the even further northern and eastern North (Baltics). […] Despite growing superlatives the Nordic Film Days have succeeded in preserving their intimacy." "The Nordic Films Days are capable of learning. Once again there is a real top-notch opening film, which a festival needs. And after unfortunate attempts at lustre and glamour in past years, the festival is attempting to put on a party for all cinema friends - most certainly a clever decision. Lübeck is not Cannes and never will be." "Instead of the constantly over-dimensioned and out-of-hand Hollywood imports that sometimes promise more than they can deliver, these Nordic films, which take up social themes with great earnest, but also with humour and irony and tell their stories imaginatively, should finally get the place in the cinemas they deserve in a united Europe. The gap between the reality of German cinema and television and the capability Nordic filmmakers can be observed year after year in Lübeck." "The festival presents itself as absolutely harmonious and almost a family affair. For years a similar circle of filmmakers, journalists, translators and cineastes come together here; for years they have treated each other with great care and caution despite their differences in opinion. There are and were no scandals. No groups are underway to make life difficult for the others. The festival direction can count on wide-ranging support, and when a certain selection doesn't quite fit, it is politely ignored. It has been like this for years and was like this again this year." "Lübeck once again provided the cultural ambassadors of the Nordic film countries with a festive environment. Lübeck could do even more for them if the organisers would understand that less quantity could mean more quality." "A word of thanks goes out to Linde Fröhlich and her team. We shall see, and see it all too soon, how much Lübeck values its Film Days. We await with tense interest the decision of NDR as to whether they will continue their - not inconsiderable - financial participation in the festival or be content, for example, to donate the NDR Promotion Prize. This would mean an existential threat to the Nordic Film Days, because the financial basis of the festival to date is already inadequate. In this respect the city or rather its leading representatives are called upon to give their decisive backing to Linde Fröhlich and thus to the Film Days." |
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