Prize for the Best Feature Film Debut

The Friends of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck award a prize for the best feature film debut with an endowment of 7,500 euros, to help promote and motivate young talent from the North. 

Debut narrative features from the sections Narrative Films, Young Audience and Filmforum are eligible for the award.

Award Winners

2024
Unmoored
Caroline Ingvarsson, Schweden / Großbritannien / Polen 2023

2023
Å Øve / Practice
Laurens Pérol, Norway / Germany 2023

2022
Den store stilhed / The Great Silence 
Katrine Brocks, Dänemark 2022

2021
Cop Secret / Leynilögga 
Hannes Þór Halldórsson, Island 2021

2020
Gesellschaftsspiel / Seurapeli / Games People Play
Jenni Toivoniemi, Finnland 2020

2019
Aurora / Aurora / Aurora  
Miia Tervo, Finnland 2019 

2018:
Die kleine Genossin / Seltsimees laps / The little comrade
Moonika Siimets, Estland 2018