The INTERFILM Jury's Church Film Award in Lübeck 2021 was won by the Finnish-French-German co-production "The Gravedigger's Wife" by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, whose film also won the NDR Feature Film Award. The INTERFILM jury awarded a Commendation to "The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic" by Teemu Nikki, which also received the Baltic Film Award.
The 63rd Nordic Film Days opened on 3 November 2021 with the Icelandic action comedy "Cop Secret" by Hannes Thor Halldórsson. The festival screened over 130 feature films, documentaries and short films in eight sections. Over 100 films were streamed across Germany at the same time.
The retrospective was dedicated to pop music and pop musicals in Nordic and Baltic cinema, the homage to actress Trine Dyrholm. The INTERFILM jury judges the films in the Feature Film Competition and awards the INTERFILM Church Film Prize, which is endowed with 5,000 € by the Evangelical Lutheran Church District of Lübeck-Lauenburg.