25/09/2012 - Unspooling between October 31-November 4, the German festival will screen some of its Cold Horror - Shudders and Dread retrospective in local churches

Now the official Norwegian candidate for the 2013 Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Feature, Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg-Joachim Rønning's Kon-Tiki [+see also:
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Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 expedition with five fellow scientists on a wooden raft, the Kon-Tiki, from South America to the Polynesian Islands - 101 days, 8,000 kilometres - opened in Norway to a record weekend of 164,191 admissions, and has now exceeded 712,000.

Starring Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Jakob Oftebro and Agnes Kittelsen, the Aage Aaberge-Jeremy Thomas production for Nordisk Film and UK's Recorded Picture Company will have its European premiere in Lübeck.

The 2012 retrospective, Cold Horror - Shudders and Dread from the North between 1921-2011, will feature screenings of German director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror (1921) and Danish director Benjamin Christensen's Häxan - Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) in local churches.

Danish directors Carl Dreyer's Vampire (1932) and Lars von Trier's The Kingdom (1994) are also included in the programme, with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf (1966) and, the most recent entry, Norwegian director André Øvredal's Trolljegeren (The _Troll Hunter) [+see also:
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The festival's Lübeck Meetings, between November 1-2, offers Nordic and German producers the opportunity to present films which have not yet been acquired for distribution in the Nordic countries or Germany. A seminar will discuss new aspects of digital distribution and marketing strategies in Northern Europe.