Join us on March 14 & 15 for the festival West Nordic Film Days, a celebration of cinema from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands! Presented in partnership with Nordic National Museum in Seattle, in-person screenings will take place at Scandinavia House in New York and Majestic Bay Theatres in Seattle on Friday and Saturday. Curated by Birgir Thor Møller, the selection of films at West Nordic Film Days reflect the current development and tendencies in West Nordic cinema as well as the diversity, combining films by prolific, prizewinning directors and upcoming filmmakers, who all live in and tell their stories from very different parts of the region.

The 2 PM afternoon session on Saturday, March 15 will include My Father’s Daughter (Biru Unjárga, dir. Egil Pedersen, 2024) followed by the Faroese shorts Lið við lið (The Last straw, dir. Andrias Høgenn, 2023) and Einmin (dir. Rammatik [aka Rannvá Káradóttir & Marianna Mørkøre], 2024).

In My Father’s Daughter, self-confident teenager Elvira (Sarah Olaussen Eir) is convinced that her mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic — and when she daydreams about her father, she imagines him as the charismatic movie star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (who plays himself). But her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly enters her life, in a film exploring teenage identity issues with empathy and warm irony.  In Lið við lið, Ivor is stranded on a Faroese mountain road, and the only person he can ask for help is his estranged brother; a tightknit drama with low-key ironic humor. And Einmin, filmed in one continues take, evolves around a solitary dancer as she navigates a deserted space.