In honour of the centennial of Thomas Mann’s “Magic Mountain”, the Retrospective of the 66th Nordic Film Days Lübeck (November 6 – 10, 2024) will be dedicated to snow.
Ticket numbers of this year's Nordic Film Days Lübeck are close to the record results in 2019, when a total of almost 30,000 spectators visited the festival. Almost 200 filmmakers from all Nordic and Baltic countries and Germany presented their work personally to the audience as guests of the festival.
The film awards for the 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck were handed out this evening at the gala Prize Night at Theater Lübeck. MC Loretta Stern hosted the ceremony during which prizes worth 65,000 euros were awarded.
The first two recipients of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck Script Development Grant for German-language projects have been chosen. The names were announced during the opening night ceremonies for the 65th festival.
The 65th edition of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck started the festival with a celebratory opening in the large hall of the Cinestar Stadthalle. As part of the opening, the festival's honorary prize was awarded to the Swedish director and screenwriter Roy Andersson.
As part of the 13th Lübeck Meetings, the annual gathering of film professionals at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck, the festival will present a new programme to foster young Nordic and Baltic filmmaking talent.
Norwegian actor and director Liv Ullmann, who has been honorary president of the festival for more than 40 years, will attend next month’s 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck.
In just two weeks, the 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck begins. Many international filmmakers will be in Lübeck to present their films. Advance ticket sales start on October 28, 2023.
At today’s press conference for the 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck at the Haus der Kaufmannschaft, festival directors Susanne Kasimir (festival management) and Thomas Hailer (artistic director) joined Lübeck’s mayor, Jan Lindenau, the city-state’s senator of culture and education Monika Frank, and the curators of the individual sections on the podium to present the full programme for the festival that turns Lübeck into the European hub for Nordic and Baltic films From November 1 to 5.
The opening night film at the 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck (Nov. 1-5, 2023) will be the 2023 Swedish-Danish comedy “Together 99” (“Tilsammans 99”), directed by Lukas Moodysson.
The 65th Nordic Film Days Lübeck (November 1 – 5, 2023) will dedicate its Homage to Swedish director and screenwriter Roy Andersson. The internationally renowned filmmaker will receive the festival’s Honorary Award on opening night, November 1, at the Cinestar Filmpalast cinema.
Since "Barbie" teenage culture is on everyone's lips - again. “Teen films,” wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2014, “have always been a genre that Hollywood has liked to provoke with – because here adults are mercilessly confronted with the obsessions of teenagers. It started in the fifties, with Marlon Brando and James Dean..."
Starting in 2023, two grants will be awarded annually to bolster the screenwriting talent pool in Lübeck and its surrounds.
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