Northern Lights Film Festival 2018
The Nordic-Baltic Northern Lights Film Festival 2018 is taking place
Northern Lights Film Festival 2018
Northern Lights Film Festival 2018 is in full motion until April 26th. The Nordic-Baltic film festival in Belarus is an annual event that offers the most recent and inspiring films from Northern Europe and the Baltic States. In the language of the cinema, the films of the festival tell about life peculiarities of the five member states of the Nordic Council of Ministers, as well as the three Baltic States. The 4th Nordic and Baltic Northern Lights Film Festival announces a new motto — Change the angle. The new motto of the festival suggests looking at ordinary objects, events, people and yourself in a different way.
During the festival week, Northern Lights Film Festival Industry Platform will host 10 various events: extended Q&A, lectures, master classes, and even music concerts. The opening movie on 19th of April was “Dreams by the Sea” by Faroese director Sakaris Stórá, who visited the opening and answered questions in a Q&A session. Director of DCI in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Simon Drewsen Holmberg also attended.
Besides “Dreams by the Sea”, this year’s program has “A Horrible woman” (2017) by Christian Tafdrup and “Venus. Let’s talk about sex” (2016) by Mette Carla Albrechtsen and Lea Glob among its selected films. “Venus” is going to be presented by its producer Kirstine Barfod, followed by Q&A and the discussion “Disarmed Venus? A talk on how our desires are formed”.
View the full programme here
The concept of Northern Lights
Northern Lights Film Festival provides an outstanding industry platform for communication between film professionals and enthusiasts in Belarus. Besides the main program, which takes place in April, the festival also organizes workshops for Belarusian professionals and screens more films, both fictions and docs, in additional programs throughout the year. The program for Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival offers to the audience educative documentaries and unconventional feature films, and it’s always drawing attention with its innovative mood.
Danish Cultural Institute in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is a co-organiser and a constant partner of the Northern Lights Nordic-Baltic Film Festival and its side activities like a “DOC HUB” – the documentary films’ workshop. The main purposes for that are fostering the development of the independent film industry in Belarus, introducing locals to the Danish culture and innovative methods of the filmmaking, raising awareness on the socially important and underrepresented in Belarus topics.
This support to the festival is one of the “pop-up” events in Belarus which is part of the Danish Cultural Institute strategy for expanding its activities beyond the borders of the official DCI locations, exploring new cultures and sharing experiences.