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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
A grieving couple retreat to Eden, their isolated cabin in the woods, where they hope to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage.
Anna Hallgrímsdóttir, a poetess, dish washer and marijuana dealer in her late thirties lives in Reykjavik with her two sons. Anna is tired of her lifestyle and the coldness of Iceland and wishes to show her sons more of the world.
Cold Lunch is a multi-plot drama about five people who all live in the same neighbourhood in Oslo. While Christer is down in the basement laundry room, he suddenly remembers
Country Wedding is a touching and funny road movie revolving around two busloads of Icelanders attending a wedding in a small church in the countryside, an hour’s drive from Reykjavik.
In 1899, Knut Hamsun’s visit down to Caucasus passed without printed media accompanying him. The famous writer never presented himself. His travel holds the key to many secrets and mysteries.
Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions.
North is a road movie comedy set in romantic natural surroundings. It is the story of the athlete Jomar who has isolated himself in a sad lonely existence after having a mental crisis.
Every year festival people of all generations from the world over gather on the fields surrounding Roskilde to step into a mutual party and release the human beast.
Robert has a number of skeletons in his closet, which he is determined to bury. Although hardly his dream job, Robert sees the position of temporary village constable as a necessary stage on the road to rehabilitation.
The film is based upon Knut Hamsun’s novel The Growth of the Soil which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The film score is composed by the first Norwegian film composer Leif Halvorsen.
Rille (16) is ostracized and bullied; a nobody. Everywhere, that is, except in the ping pong room. There he rules; he is the King of Ping Pong. His brother Erik (13) is charming, respected and loved by all.
November 1989. The Berlin wall collapses. In Stavanger town, Jarle Klepp (17) has no idea that everyting is about to change.
A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion.
