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51st Lübeck screens 140 Nordic films

For its 51st edition, the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck lives up to its reputation as the biggest display of Nordic films outside the Nordic region. No less than 140 films from Scandinavia as well as the Baltic region and Northern Germany are screening in the World Cultural Heritage city from tonight until Saturday.

Norway has an exceptional presence with 12 feature films in various sections, starting with Eva Dahr’s opening film The Orange Girl [+see also:
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. The celebrated novelist Jostein Gaarder – whose eponymous novel was the source material for Dahr’s film – is expected in Lübeck, where Jesper W. Nielsen’s Through a Glass, Darkly [+see also:
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, another film based on his books, will be screening.

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Seventeen feature films are running for the NDR top award worth €12,500. Filmmakers who will introduce their films in competition include Finland’s Klaus Härö (Letters from Father Jacob [+see also:
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) and Saara Cantell (Heartbeats), Norway’s Gunnar Vikene (Vegas [+see also:
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), Denmark’s Nils Malmros (Aching Hearts), Sweden’s Håkon Liu (Miss Kicki), Jörgen Bergmark (A Rational Solution [+see also:
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) and Lithuania’s Ignas Miskinis (Low Lights [+see also:
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).

This year’s jury comprises German actress Jasmin Schwiers, filmmaker Sven Taddicken, producer Katharina Tendeld, actor Felix Kramer and NDR editor Daniel Mussgiller. German filmmakers who will introduce their latest works include Fatih Akin (Soul Kitchen [+see also:
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), Anno Saul (The Door [+see also:
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) and Nina Grosse (The Prodigal Son)

For artistic director Linde Frölich, German co-productions with Norway are on the rise (competition titles The Orange Girl and Max Manus [+see also:
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were both co-produced with Germany), hence her decision to introduce a German-Norwegian co-producers meeting in Lübeck. Frölich also stressed the exceptionally high number of Norwegian films that will hit German screens between December and February: The Orange Girl (Neue Visionen, December 10), North [+see also:
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(Alamode, January 7), Max Manus (Capelight, February 11) and Troubled Water [+see also:
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(Kool Distribution, February 25).

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