The festival promotes cinema from Scandinavian and Baltic countries and serves as an industrial platform for independent filmmakers.
[1][2][3][4] The festival is directed and produced by Volia Chajkouskaya,[5] the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania is the event's main organizer.
The festival is co-managed and supported by Norwegian Embassy in Kiev and Danish Cultural Institute in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
[8] Northern Lights represents films from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Greenland.
In its new form, the festival is held as a hybrid event with on-site screenings in Estonia and Lithuania and a line-up of 40 films from Belarus, Ukraine and the Nordic-Baltic region available online for Belarusians all over the world.