The 60th Nordic Film Days Lübeck drew to a close yesterday, with festival directors Linde Fröhlich (artistic director) and Florian Vollmers (managing director) expressing great pleasure at the results. The total number of visitors this year increased to 36,000, giving the festival another boost. More
The big winner at the Saturday awards gala of the 60th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, which end on Sunday, November 4, 2018, is the Icelandic feature “Woman at War” (Kona fer í stríd) by Benedikt Erlingsson. More
At Tuesday’s opening of the Nordische Filmtage Lübecks Lübeck (Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2018), moderator Mille Maria Dalsgaard from Denmark, making her first appearance at the festival, presented introduced to the Lübeck audience six members of the Estonian crew behind the opening night film “The Little Comrade” (Seltsimees laps). More
The 60th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, showing 199 films on six days, through November 4, 2018 started yesterday. The NFL is the largest festival on the European continent devoted to films from the northern and Baltic countries, and northern Germany. Numerous additional companies and people have made the festival possible with their services and financial contributions. More
“A short film always represents a chance – not just a cinematic one, but for the audience as well”, says Sebastian Apel, curator of this year’s Nordic Shorts section. More
There are 17 films in the 2018 Competition section of the 60th Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2018), vying for the NDR Film Prize, endowed with 12,500 euros, including nine first feature narratives. More
For more than 30 years now, the Film Forum has served as a platform for films from northern Germany at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck. More
The 360° films at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Oct. 30 – Nov.4, 2018) in the “immersive media” section will once again be presented in an inflatable Fulldome cinema in the heart of Lübeck at Klingenberg square. More
Lübeck, 27.10.18 - A guest and event list for the 60th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck is now online More
“Human drama, social grievances, and upheavals in society are what makes the new generation of TV series really sing”, says Christian Modersbach, curator of the Series section at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck. More
Lübeck, Oct. 20, 2018. As of today, the complete schedule of films and events is available at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck website www.nordische-filmtage.de, with details and screening times for this year’s festival (Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2018). Each of the 199 festival films is listed with a brief synopsis, photos, and screening schedule, alongside side-bar events. You can view the programme by day, section, or with a search function. The personal day planner allows registered web visitors to put together their own individual schedule. More
Provocative cinema, historical film epics, and an homage to Swedish master director Ingmar Bergman are the hallmarks of the Specials section of the 60th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, which runs from October 30 to November 4. More
Lübeck, Oct. 18, 2018. The documentary programme for this year’s 60th Nordic Film Day Lübeck (Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2018) delivers an exciting cross-section of films on ways of life in the Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as vivid histories in Europe over the last 100 years. More
This year’s Children’s and Youth programme comprises 36 films, including 16 feature narratives and 20 shorts. The 11 German and international premieres among the features alone are impressive proof of the festival’s importance to the children and youth film industry. More
Lübeck, Oct. 10, 2018. Screening 199 films, the 60th Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, from October 30 to November 4, 2018, will present an extensive and diverse programme with a multitude of current films from the Nordic and Baltic countries in all its sections, alongside the Filmforum, with new films from Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. At today’s press conference in the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel, the two festival directors Linde Fröhlich (artistic director) and Florian Vollmers (managing director) presented the full anniversary programme., Particularly in the Competition, comprising 17 films and carrying a prize of €12,500 endowed by broadcaster NDR, the programme is shaped by promising talent and new films by former NFL prize winners. More
Lübeck, Oct. 9, 2018. The Nordische Filmtage Lübeck will usher in its 60th year with the German premiere of the Estonian film “The Little Comrade” (Seltsimees laps) by Moonika Siimets on October 30, 2018 at 7:30 pm.This marks the first time in the history of the renowned festival that the opening night film will be from a Baltic State. In her first narrative film, director Moonika Siimets tells the story of six-year-old Leelo, living in Estonia in the 1950s. After her mother is taken away, the young girl tries to figure out the difference between good and evil amid the constraints of the Stalinist regime. More
Lübeck, Sept. 26, 2018. For the 60th anniversary year of the Nordische Filmtage Lübeck (Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2018), in which the Hanseatic League city of Lübeck is celebrating its 875th jubilee, the Retrospective is dedicated to “overseas relations”, as well as the Baltic Sea and its port cities. The narrative and documentary films, most made before the turn of the millennium, are stories of ship journeys and ferries, merchant vessels and tourist trips, but also inevitably of martial conflicts and refugee movement in the 20th century. In addition to maritime subjects, they also examine daily life ashore – loading and unloading, love and work, port romances and reality. More
Lübeck, Aug. 29, 2018. The Nordic Film Days Lübeck 2018 gave its first press conference today at the Hotel Park Inn by Radisson in Lübeck. At the podium were the two festival directors Linde Fröhlich (artistic director) and Florian Vollmers (managing director), alongside Lübeck’s culture senator Kathrin Weiher, Lübeck, and curators Jörg Schöning (Retrospective) and Ralph Heinsohn (360° Films/Immersive Media), to provide a first look at the anniversary programme and introduce the festival’s new elements. In 2018, the NFL are celebrating their 60th year. In honour of the anniversary, the festival is starting a day early, on Tuesday, October 30. From then until November 4, 2018, visitors can enjoy six days of the newest highlights and innovative cinema from the Scandinavian and Baltic countries as well as northern Germany, with a focus on Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. More
Lübeck - April 24, 2018. Call For Entries! Film submission lines for the up-coming 60. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck (30.10.-04.11.2018) are now open till August 1st, 2018.
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