On 9 November, the awards for the 66th edition of Lübeck’s Nordic Film Days were handed out at the gala Prize Night held at Theatre Lübeck. Mainz-born actress Loretta Stern hosted the ceremony during which eleven prizes worth €65,000 were awarded. The Honorary Prize was awarded on opening night, 6 November, to Finnish thesp Kati Outinen.
On this occasion, four accolades were awarded in the feature film competition, two of which went to Sylvia Le Fanu’s My Eternal Summer (Min evige sommer, Denmark) - the NDR Film Prize (worth €12,500) and the Baltic Film Prize for a Nordic film (worth €5,000).
The NDR Film Prize jury billed the picture as “as bright as a never-ending midsummer”, while the Baltic Film Jury praised it for addressing everything between life, death and love.
Staged by Adomeit Film and sold by TrustNordisk, My Eternal Summer first played at San Sebastian and London. The plot follows 15-year-old Fanny and her parents as they retreat to their summer house and embrace familiar routines: reading, swimming and walking. Beneath the quiet simplicity, an unspoken grief lingers – they know it will be her mother’s last summer. As they try to seize the days they have left together, the family navigates the delicate balance between cherishing the present and facing what’s to come.