The INTERFILM Jury at the Nordic Film Days in Luebeck 2025 awarded the Church Film Prize, endowed with €5,000 and donated by the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Luebeck-Lauenburg, to ‘Renovacija’ (Renovation, Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium 2025) by Gabrielė Urbonaitė. The film also received the Prize of the Friends for Best Feature Film Debut. The NDR Film Prize went to the Danish production ‘Second Victims’ (Det andet offer, Denmark 2025) by Zinnini Elkington. The Documentary Film Prize was awarded to ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ (Denmark, Czechia 2025) by David Borensteiln and Pavel Talankin.
The 67th Nordic Film Days Luebeck opened on 5 November with ‘The Last Viking’ (Den sidste viking, Denmark, Sweden 2025) by Anders Thomas Jensen. The director became known for ‘Adam's Apples’ (Adams æbler, Denmark 2005), featuring again Mads Mikkelsen in one of the leading roles. The retrospective, entitled ‘Magic Lights and Enchanting Colours', explores the influence of painting on Nordic cinema. The festival's Honorary Award is given to the Norwegian film director Bent Hamer (Eggs, 1995; Kitchen Stories, 2003; 1001 Grams, 2014, and others).