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FESTIVALS Germany / Nordic countries

Kon-Tiki, Troell, August and Bier compete at the 54th Nordic Film Days

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- Unspooling between October 31-November 4, Lübeck’s Nordic, Baltic and North German showcase will screen 149 titles, including four European and eight German premieres

Opening the 54th Nordic Film Days in Lübeck tomorrow (October 31), Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg-Joachim Rønning's Kon-Tiki [+see also:
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– which has clocked up more than 800,000 admissions domestically – will also launch the festival's main competition for the NDR Feature Film Prize of €12,500, with 15 contenders this year.

Norwegian producer Aage Aaberge and most of the cast - Pål Sverre Hagen, Agnes Kittelsen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann and Jacob Oftebro – will attend the screening at the CineStar Filmpalast Stadthalle. Norway is supplying a further three entries - Sara Johnsen's All That Matters Is Past [+see also:
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, Eva Sørhaug's 90 Minutes [+see also:
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and Arild Andresen's The Orheim Company [+see also:
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Also in competition, Swedish director Jan Troell will present his new feature The Last Sentence [+see also:
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in Lübeck with Danish lead actor Jesper Christensen and his actress-daughter, Yohanna; Sweden is also represented by Jesper Ganslandt's Blondie [+see also:
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and Gabriela Pichler's Eat Sleep Die [+see also:
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Denmark sends Bille August's Marie Krøyer [+see also:
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, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt [+see also:
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and Susanne Bier's Love Is All You Need [+see also:
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, while the Finnish package includes Aku Louhimies's Naked Harbour [+see also:
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, Sakari Kirjavainen's Silence and Saara Cantell's Stars Above [+see also:
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, with Cantell and lead actress Meri Nenonen at the festival.

The largest showcase of Nordic cinema outside Scandinavia, adding Baltic and North German programming, the Nordic Film Days will this year show a total of 149 films in seven sections – the retrospective, Cold Horror – Shudders and Dread in Scandinavian Cinema 1921-2011, also starts tomorrow, on Halloween.

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