Hlunyr Pálmason’s drama received the €12,500 NDR Film Prize, awarded a year earlier to A Woman at War.

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, recipient of six Best Acting Awards for his outstanding performance in A White, White Day, was on hand in Lübeck to receive the award on behalf of Pálmason. The film was nominated for the 2019 Nordic Council Film Prize and is the Icelandic contender in the 2020 Oscars race. Arthouse distributor Arsenal will release it in Germany February 13, 2020.

Meanwhile Iceland’s striking vignette movie Echo by Rúnar Rúnarsson, was awarded the €5,000 Interfilm Church Prize, accepted by producer Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir.
Finland took home no less than four awards:

• €7,500 Best First Feature award for Miia Tervo’s Aurora (Nordic Council Film Prize Nominee) 
• €5,000 Documentary Film Prize of the North DGB District for The Power of Yoik by Paul Simma set in the Sami community
• €5,000 Children and Youth Film for Selma Vilhunen’s Stupid Young Heart 
• Audience Award for Mika Kaurismäki’s Master Cheng.

Denmark won two awards:

• €5,000 Children’s Jury Prize for Christian Dyekjær’s All I Want for Christmas 
• €2,500 Baltic Film Prize for Ulaa Salim’s drama Sons of Denmark.

Other awards went to Germany's Ascona, CineStar Prize winner, Latvia’s Away, Honourable Mention from the Children and Youth Jury, and Estonia’s Phantom Owl Forest, Honourable Mention from the Children’s Jury Prize.

“This year’s Competition was full of favourites, which kept the competition for the awards exciting until the very end”, stressed artistic director Linde Fröhlich.

Festival manager Florian Vollmers added: “After the Nordische Filmtage [Nordic Film Days] Lübeck, many of the films that won here will be released in German cinemas. I hope that the Lübeck awards mark a rousing opening, and I’m very pleased that the NFL helps good films from the Nordic regions find even larger audiences in Germany”.