Lübeck Nordic Film Days opens with Lukas Moodysson’s Together 99

Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish/German co-production Together 99 will kick-off the rich programme of Nordic Film Days Lübeck’s 65^th edition, where 180 films will be available across 250 public screening venues in the Hanseatic city, but also for streaming all over Germany.

A total of 12 prizes for a value of €65,000 will be handed out, including the audience award and the honorary award, given out this year to the legendary Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson November 1^st.

“Roy Andersson has created a unique body of work that explores personhood in all its vulnerability, inadequacy, and brutality. His eye is keen, but empathetic”, said NFL artistic director Thomas Hailer.

Another iconic Nordic name, filmmaker/actress Liv Ullmann will be honoured with a retrospective of her impressive body of work, and her portrait in Dheeraj Akolkar’s documentary Liv-Ullmann-A Road Less Travelled with its European premiere at Lübeck’s documentary competition section.

The Narrative film competition will screen 14 films including 12 from the Nordic region, some of them to be introduced by their filmmakers, such as the Swedish films Paradise is Burning by Mika Gustafson, Vintersaga by Carl Olsson, Iceland’s Solitude by Ninna Pálmadóttir, and Norway’s Å Øve (Practice) by German filmmaker Laurens Pérol.

The well attended young audience section will be screening 27 films - including Dancing Queen, Listen Up!,Rosa and the Stone Troll - and the series programme has six Nordic titles: Balls, Estonia, Out of Touch, Prisoner, Descendants and The Architect.

For the first time, the festival will launch a Screenwriting Residency to bolster German-language screenwriting and the talent pool in Lübeck and its surroundings. The €35,000 individual grants will be handed out to an established writer of a new theatrical film project, and to a writer with a Lübeck connection for an open-format visual story for any platform. The first recipients will be announced on the opening night November 1^st.

For the full programme, check: https://nordische-filmtage.de/en/ueberuns/profil