X Nordic film days
16th - 24th of October, 2009

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NFD winners

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009


The winner announced

In Saturday’s afternoon of 24th of October during the Closing ceremony the decision of Media Jury of 10th Riga’s Nordic Film Days was announced and the winner awarded with the symbolic NorthernTable, which became incarnated into a chamomile ornamented cup.

Film Days’ jury - satori.lv journalist Irbe Treile, DJ of Radio SWH Toms Grevins and magazine’s Klubs (more…)

Lecture about Hamsun

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

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: (more…)

Nordic atmosphere

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Here You can find an insight into X Nordic Film days atmosphere in the cinema K.Suns, where the cinema lovers had a wide choice of films - starting from the scandalous Antikrist by Lars von Trier and at last the Country Wedding by Valdís Óskarsdóttir, which also received the NFD Northern Table and Audience Awards prize. (more…)

NFD Opening

Monday, October 19th, 2009

The 10th Nordic Film Days were ceremoniously opened with huge ice cubes from the North, Scandinavian ice - fishermen, presentation of Medium Jury and Icelandic comedy Back Soon.

Could there be a better proof of proper opening than the snow this morning, an affectionate greeting for organizers of the film days?

While waiting for the evening films and your herbal tea to infuse, you are welcome to have a glance into (more…)