Celebrating Knut Hamsun’s 150th anniversary, NFD offered two lectures about the famous writer:

on 20th of October - Viktors Freiberg’s lecture Hamsun and Film: Cinematic Qualities of Literary Text in cooperation with Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Latvia;

on 21th of October - Jan Erik Holst’s (Nordic Film Foundation) lecture Hamsun on the screen.

Commemorating Knut Hamsun, there were also 2 special free entrance screenings:

Knut Hamsun’s Caucasian Mysteries;

The Growth of the Soil (based upon Knut Hamsun’s novel The Growth of the Soil which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.)

Photos from Jan Erik Holst’s (NFF) lecture Hamsun on the screen.