04/11/2013 - Unspooling between October 30-November 3, the largest festival for Nordic and Baltic cinema outside Scandinavia awarded Norwegian director Iram Haq’s I Am Yours and Danish director Michael Noer’s Northwest

Norwegian director Iram Haq’s feature debut, I Am Yours [+see also:
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At the awards ceremony on Saturday in Theater Lübeck, The Audience Prize went to Estonian director Ilmar Raag’s Kertu [+see also:
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The Children and Youth Film Jury gave its award to Swedish directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein for Shed No Tears, while the Children’s Jury preferred Norwegian director Christian Lo forThe Tough Guys. German director Katja Adomeit’s Little Night Huntercollected the prize for Best Short.

Unspooling between October 30-November 3, the largest festival for Nordic, Baltic (adding regional Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein) cinema outside Scandinavia did not ignore the strong local interest in Nordic noir. Spearheaded by Danish director Mikkel Nørgaard’sThe Keeper of Lost Causes [+see also:
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The Nordic Film Days also focused on documentaries, with a master class hosted by Copenhagen-based, US director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose The Act of Killing [+see also:
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And no festival can be without music: the documentary screenings of Finnish director Mika Ronkainen’s Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart [+see also:
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