Festival Data:

• Established: 1956
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 20500
• Media Attendance: 200
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 600
• Total Number of Films Screened: 130
• Total Screenings: 150
• # of Shorts Screened: 18
• # of Features Screened: 54
• Accreditations: ECFF

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

Nordic Film Days Lübeck is the only festival in Germany, which is entirely devoted to the presentation of films from the North and Northeast of Europe. Feature films, documentaries and short films from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden are presented at this four-day event every year at the beginning of November. In addition, there is an extensive children's and youth film programme and a retrospective devoted to important eras, specific genres or famous persons of film history. Accompanying the film programme are seminars, discussions and roundtable talks.

The Nordic Film Days Lübeck is both an audience festival and an important meeting place for the film industry in Germany and northern Europe. Many directors whose debut works were presented in Lübeck have gone on to earn fame around the world - such as Bille August, Lasse Hallström, Aki Kaurismäki or Fridrik Thór Fridriksson.