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🌟 NLFF Festival Schedule - 2025!

  • northernlightsfff
  • Oct 28
  • 3 min read

Updated: 7 days ago


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Festival Home - Stokkseyri - Árborg
Festival Home - Stokkseyri - Árborg

🌟 Thursday Opening Night

October 30


18:30 – Fantastic Festival Opening

Presentation of this year’s program. Beer from Bríó & light refreshments served in a cozy, fantastic atmosphere!


20:00 – Balcony hot dog party (weather permitting)!



🌟 Halloween Friday

October 31


15:20 – 16:30 - Program I – Light Beneath the Surface

Imagination, color, and wonder — stories for dreamers of all ages.


17:00 – 19:15 - Program II – Through Shadows and Skin

Uneasy laughter, haunting beauty, and the pulse of human fragility.


20:15 - 22:30 - Program III – The Mind’s Mirror

Where reason cracks and strange reflections blur the line between real and unreal.



🌟 Fantastic Saturday

November 1


11:00 – 13:45 – Program IV – Whispers from the Abyss

Darkness breathes — tales of desire, decay, and the ghosts that linger within us.


14:40 – 15:25 - Panel Talk / Fantastic Screenwriting

Crafting Worlds Beyond Reality & Screenwriters who dare to imagine beyond the ordinary!


15:45 – 17:50 - Program V – The Dream Logic

Visions between sleep and waking — surreal, tender, and quietly terrifying!


  • Dadda — 19 min — Aimee Hoffman (United States)

  • ASTER — 5 min — Chloe Hebert (United Kingdom) / Q&A

  • Draug — 15 min — David Lejard Ruffet (Norway) / Q&A


Intermission — 15 min


  • Empty Jars — 21 min — Guillermo Ribbeck (Chile)

  • The Mountain that Slept — 8 min — Tómas Nói Hauksson (Iceland) Q&A

  • Dýpi viskunnar — 18 min — Hafsteinn Eyvar Jónsson (Iceland) / Q&A

  • LÆTI — 19 min — Baldur Stefánsson (Iceland) 


18:50 – 21:10 - Program VI – Uncanny Echoes

Intimate, uncanny, and deeply human — endings that echo long after the lights fade.


  • TELEOS-1 — 18 min — Niels Bierhaus (Netherlands) / Q&A

  • Heartware — 15 min — Leander Behal (Germany)

  • Pimple — 4 min — Fernando Alle (Portugal) / Q&A

  • Portal — 19 min — Alvin Hugi Ragnarsson (Iceland) / Q&A

  • FOMO / Armageddon — 12 min — Michael Kunov (Denmark)


Intermission — 15 min


  • The Falling — 15 min — Duane Andersen, Josiah Polhemus (United States)

  • KALAVIUKA — 10 min — Qilu Gan (China)

  • Planetagatik — 10 min — Eneko Muruzabal Elezcano (Spain)

  • Wasteland — 23 min — Servaes Dewispelaere (Belgium)


22:00 – Halloween Costume Party & Fantastic Film - Pub Quiz!

For grown-ups? Absolutely — it’s All Hallows’ weekend after all!Monsters and unicorns, come out to play! Fantastic prizes from the festival & Bríó for the winning team! (Max 3 people in a team)



🌟 A Sunday from Fairy Tales to Nightmares

November 2


A day dedicated to the darker imagination of H.C. Andersen, Icelandic literary heritage, and fantastic storytelling in film and folklore.


13:00 – Festival Brunch / Danish Smørrebrød Buffet from Matkráin

*Free for Festival Pass holders.


14:00 – Premiere: Adorable Humans (2025) + Q&A

A four-part Danish anthology film inspired by some of Andersen’s most haunting horror tales.


16:30 – Panel Talk: H.C. Andersen – From Fairy Tales to Nightmares

A discussion exploring the influence of Icelandic literary heritage on Andersen — and, in turn, how his storytelling has inspired generations of fantasy and horror creators.


19:00 – Closing Ceremony & Awards

Celebration & light refreshments.


21:00 – Festival Closing.




 
 
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