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 reflects 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 4:15 PM afternoon session on Saturday, March 15 will include the feature film When the Light Breaks (Ljóbrot, 2024), followed by the short film O (2024), both directed by Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson. In When the Light Breaks, a young woman loses her boyfriend in a terrible accident but must bear the grief alone, in a captivating and beautiful film set over the course of 24 hours. The 2024 short O is a poetic and powerful portrait of a man’s battle with his own demons during his daughter’s wedding.