The 64^th edition of the Nordic Film Days will take place in the Northern German city of Lübeck from 2-6 November. As usual, the festival focuses on a selection of new productions from Scandinavia and the Baltic countries. The programme will showcase a total of 173 movies and series, scattered across a total of nine sections. Among them is a new one called Immersion 360°, which, for the first time, will present 16 360-degree films and artworks in a mobile, full-dome theatre. Among the highlights is the collective work Árran 360° by six leading Sámi artists, which premiered at this year's Venice Biennale and which combines indigenous storytelling with innovative technology.

This year, the festival has a new head for its Series section: US programmer and film journalist Wendy Mitchell has selected eight productions from Scandinavia, including The Kingdom Exodus [+lee también:
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entrevista: Asta Kamma August
entrevista: Hubert Toint y Mark Denessen
ficha de la serie] by Danish director Lars von Trier. Nordic Film Days’ retrospective is titled “Cross and Queer” and will present 14 films made between 1921 and 1981 that hinge on the topics of dressing differently and gender identity. As for the homage, it is dedicated to Icelandic director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. Friðriksson, who was born in 1954, is one of the big names in Icelandic cinema. His career started in the 1980s, and his 1991 romantic drama Children of Nature is the only film from Iceland to have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign-language Film/Best International Feature Film so far. In Lübeck, it will be possible to watch this movie as well as four more, which were created between 1994 and 2010 – namely, Movie Days (1994), Cold Fever (1995), Angels of the Universe (2000) and Mamma Gógó [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (2010).

The core of this year's edition is its competition. The films taking part will be competing for a total of 12 awards endowed with €63,000, and a jury and the audience will be the ones deciding on the winners. The fiction-feature competition comprises 14 titles. They include A Matter of Trust by Annette K Olesen, a Danish drama that tells the complex story of five different people who all struggle to find a place in life where they can feel safe and loved; the coming-of-age drama Beautiful Beings [+lee también:
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entrevista: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
ficha de la película], about a 14-year-old boy with a drug-addict mother and a violent stepfather, helmed by Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson; Norwegian director Hallvar Witzø’s comedy Everybody Hates Johan [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], in which the protagonist is particularly fond of dynamite; Dovilė Šarutytė, representing Lithuania, with her debut, Feature Film About Life [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dovile Sarutyte
ficha de la película], in which she accompanies her protagonist through her grief over the death of her father; Boy from Heaven [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tarik Saleh
ficha de la película] by Swedish director of Egyptian heritage Tarik Saleh, which is set in Cairo and tells the story of a student struggling with his search for faith; Godland [+lee también:
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entrevista: Elliott Crosset Hove
entrevista: Hlynur Pálmason
ficha de la película] by Hlynur Pálmason, a historical drama co-produced by Denmark, Iceland, France and Sweden; the social satire Sick of Myself [+lee también:
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entrevista: Kristine Kujath Thorp
entrevista: Kristoffer Borgli
ficha de la película] by Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli; and the tragicomedy The Woodcutter Story [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mykko Myllylahti
ficha de la película] by Finnish helmer Mikko Myllylahti.

Also part of the fiction-feature competition are the Latvian-Lithuanian-Polish production January [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Viesturs Kairišs, set in the winter of 1991 at the moment when Latvia gains its independence; the animated film from Latvia My Love Affair With Marriage [+lee también:
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entrevista: Signe Baumane
ficha de la película] by Signe Baumane; the Norwegian coming-of-age flick with fantastical elements Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Franciska Seifert Eliassen; the thriller-horror-drama Speak No Evil [+lee también:
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entrevista: Christian Tafdrup
ficha de la película] by Danish director Christian Tafdrup; the drama about a single mother The Store [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Ami-Ro Sköld; and, finally, The Great Silence [+lee también:
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entrevista: Kristine Kujath Thorp
ficha de la película] by Denmark’s Katrine Brocks, which tells the story of a young novitiate.

Besides the fiction-feature competition, there is also one dedicated to documentaries, which boasts 18 highly acclaimed titles including A House Made of Splinters [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Simon Lereng Wilmont, Nelly & Nadine [+lee también:
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entrevista: Magnus Gertten
ficha de la película] by Magnus Gertten, The Eclipse [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nataša Urban
ficha de la película] by Nataša Urban, Polaris [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ainara Vera
ficha de la película] by Ainara Vera, Ruthless Times – Songs of Care [+lee también:
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entrevista: Susanna Helke
ficha de la película] by Susanna Helke and The Territory [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Alex Pritz.

Last but not least, a short-film programme with 32 titles has been scheduled, and there will also be a section with 29 films chosen specifically for a young audience. The festival will open on 2 November with the Danish documentary Music for Black Pigeons [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jørgen Leth y Andreas Koef…
ficha de la película] by Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed, which is also part of the documentary competition. The film, which accompanies a group of jazz musicians, will enjoy its German premiere in Lübeck.