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SUMMARY:THE 2026 NEW YORK BALTIC FILM FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:The 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns this November continuing its tradition of bringing the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences. The leading Baltic film festival in the U.S. will take place November 5-8\, 2026\, with in-person screenings\, filmmaker Q&As and receptions taking place at Scandinavia House in New York. \nEarly-Bird Tickets are now on sale with a $20 discount on passes and packages through October 5. In-Person Passes can be purchased for $105/$75 ASF Members (regular $125/$95 ASF Members); VIP Passes are available for $405 (regular $425). \nThe full festival lineup will be announced in late September; please check back here for details. \nASF Program Manager & NYBFF Curator Kyle Reinhart states\, “This year’s iteration of the festival features Baltic stories ranging from the great to the microscopic and focuses on attaining your dreams or enacting change even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. Whether exploring personal subjects\, such as family life and coming of age\, or political history\, from the Soviet occupation to the present\, the filmmakers in this year’s lineup put a deeply human perspective on the struggle to achieve one’s goals\, and the beauty that often arises from perseverance.” \nPurchase Early Bird Passes
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nybff-2026/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:A GOODNIGHT KISS | NYBFF
DESCRIPTION:See a screening of A Goodnight Kiss (Irena) in the the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF). \nA Goodnight Kiss is an homage to a remarkable woman\, Irena Veisaitė\, and her unabating spirit. As Irena turns 92 in 2020\, birthday greetings pour in for one of Lithuania’s wisest women\, much adored in its intellectual and cultural circles. The Nazi occupation cut her childhood short at just age 13\, robbing her of her birth mother and imprisoning her in a ghetto. Then came another occupation\, by the Soviets\, which took away her “second mother\,” who had saved her from the Nazis and raised her like one of her own. Yet having survived these horrors of two of the 20th-century’s most brutal totalitarian regimes\, Irena came out on the other side\, believing in a life free of hatred.  \nSet in Vilnius\, once dubbed the Jerusalem of the North\, the film crafts a nuanced portrait of Irena as a testimony to her humanity and courage to live and forgive. Following Irena’s passing later in 2020\, Giedrė Žickytė found new ways to tell her story\, drawing on unseen testimonies and rare archives such as clandestine photos captured inside a ghetto. Woven into the narrative is music by her lifelong friend\, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt\, who dedicated his acclaimed piano piece Für Alina to Irena as a gesture of solace\, echoing Irena’s own experience of motherhood and the longing she felt for her daughter Alina during the years they were apart. \nIn today’s fracturing world\, Irena’s wisdom may be the guiding light we need. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/a-goodnight-kiss-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:BALTIC SHORTS | NYBFF
DESCRIPTION:The 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns this November\, bringing the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences. On Saturday\, November 7\, see a program of “Baltic Shorts\,” with live-action short films from Estonia\, Latvia and Lithuania.  \nPORTRAIT OF GRANNY (Omamma) | Dir. Ieva Ozolina\n6 min. In Latvian with English subtitles (Latvia\, 2026)  \nPickles\, sweet tea\, strawberries and a warm smile. This is how we are greeted by director Ieva Ozoliņa’s grandmother\, Aina—an 88-year-young woman. Health concerns and medication\, which she jokingly calls “narcotics\,” have become inseparable parts of her everyday life. Yet Aina’s outlook on life is surprisingly light: there is no shortage of understanding\, humor\, or ability to laugh at herself and the world around her. The five phrases she uses most often are her keys to a life lived to its fullest.  \nCONCRETE KIDS (Betono vaikai) | Dir. Saulius Baradinskas\n20 min. In Lithuanian with English subtitles (Lithuania\, 2026) \nThis short film tells the story of kids who grew up in the courtyards of the Soviet apartment district of Lithuania. Lacking the attention and love of their parents\, they needed to survive and free themselves from the violence in the streets every single day. \nMY FIRST FUNERAL (Manas pirmās bēres) | Dir. Līva Klepere \n15 min. In Latvian with English subtitles (Latvia\, 20260 \nMare looks at the world with wonder and curiosity. When her family gathers to mourn a recently deceased relative\, the eight-year-old girl finds herself in an unfamiliar world\, filled with dark clothing\, unknown traditions and incomprehensible emotions. The more she sees\, the less it makes sense to her. She opts instead for the company of her relative’s dog\, hiding in a pleasantly simple\, imagined reality. \nA MICROPHONE IN THE HEAD (Mikrofon peas) | Dir. Robert Raska Ly \n12:44 min. In Estonian with English subtitles (Estonia\, 2025) \nHilja discovers that Joonas\, who died in a car accident\, is able to contact her through a haunted karaoke microphone. To move on to the afterlife\, Joonas asks his heartbroken fiancée to visit his mother and deliver a final message—that he is gay.  \nSIGNAL PATH (Signalo kelias) | Dir. Eglė Razumaitė \n20 min. In Lithuanian/German/English with English subtitles (Lithuania/Germany\, 2026) \nLiepa and her daughter move to Germany in search of ​a fresh start\, but soon have to deal with her family’s disapproval and the challenges of metropolitan life. Director Eglė Razumaitė states: “My intention with this short film was to highlight the shift in the sex industry and to ask: How do we redefine prostitution on screen? Despite societies moving toward legal and political recognition of sex workers\, we still tend to stigmatize\, discriminate against\, and violate their rights.” \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/baltic-shorts-nybff-2/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:MORTEN | NYBFF
DESCRIPTION:The 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns this November continuing its tradition of bringing the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences! \nSee Ivan Pavljutskov’s Morten\, a coming-of-age film set between reality and the mystical in the Estonian countryside\, on November 7. Director Ivan Pavljutškov will be present for film talk and Q&A \nFifteen-year old Morten lives with his uncle Urmas and a one-eyed cat named Nurru in a crumbling farmhouse in an abandoned forest village. His mother works in Finland to save money for their future home\, and the boy has never heard anything about his father. Morten tries his best to hide the reality of his life from his classmates\, but finds it difficult without any money or self-confidence. What he does have is a camera—an old one that he inherited from his grandfather—and the photos he takes make him feel as if he’s at least good at something\, if not worthy of love.  \nUntil suddenly\, one day there are two people who do: Emilie\, a girl whom Morten dares to open up to for the first time in his life\, and who looks forward to meeting him more than anything. And then there’s Miia—a girl who shouldn’t be interested in someone like Morten at all\, but somehow still is. Based on Reeli Reinaus’ novel Morten\, Emilie and the Lost Worlds\, the film had its world premiere in the Special Screenings section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2026\, and has since won three awards at Italy’s Giffoni Film Festival. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/morten-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:HOLY DESTRUCTORS | NYBFF
DESCRIPTION:The 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns this November continuing its tradition of bringing the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences! \nTwo powerful forces\, both driven by hunger for life\, collide in director Aistė Žegulytė’s Holy Destructors (Biodestruktoriai)\, screening Saturday\, November 7 in NYBFF. Film composer Gediminas Jakubka will be present for a film talk and Q&A. \nThis powerful documentary delves deep into the invisible world of organisms that emerge during the decay of organic matter. Biodestructors are microfungi that existed millions of years before humans\, and will likely outlive us. Their presence transforms bodies into extraordinary energy that nourishes the soil and gives rise to new life in this endless cycle. By blending archival and new footage with shots of growing fungi\, director Aistė Žegulytė takes viewers on an enigmatic journey through a microscope lens\, where humans continue to fight against time by preserving images\, bodies\, and memories. \nWinner of Best Directing Award\, IDFA Envision Competition (2025)\, Best Baltic Documentary Film\, Doc@POFF Competition at Tallinn Black Nights (2025)\, and Best Documentary at Lithuania’s Silver Crane Awards (2026). \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holy-destructors-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT — ULYA | NYBFF
DESCRIPTION:*Please note: this screening is now sold out.* \nThe 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America returns this November continuing its tradition of bringing the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences! \nThe Saturday evening screening will feature the North American Premiere of Ulya\, a biopic of legendary Latvian athlete Uļjana Semjonova\, with a film talk with director Viesturs Kairišs. Latvia’s Showcase Film at this year’s NYBFF\, the film had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival and is Latvia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards. \nSoviet Union\, Latvia\, 1964. On the Paberze farm in the snowy fields in Latgale\, teenager Ulya’s height is approaching two meters at an alarming rate\, and does not seem to be stopping. So far she has found a safe haven in her village\, where she is surrounded by her loving family and helps out with farmwork. But the question gnawing at her parents (and Ulya also) is: is there a place in the world for a giant-sized girl? \nWhen her older sister Tatjana’s fiancé Pavel secretly sends Ulja’s class photo to Karbergs\, head coach of the Latvian women’s basketball team TTT\, they soon have an answer. Seeing huge potential\, Karbergs whisks the girl away to capital Riga\, where Ulya hopes to find taller houses and taller people. But on the basketball court\, her height sticks out even more – until\, with the help of her ill-mannered and foul-mouthed coach\, she discovers that the best way to avoid derision is to start playing better.  \nWith hard work comes first success. But as Ulya rises on her path towards stardom\, she must deal with the painful realization that others see her as a means for their own ends\, and that basketball may not help her quest for a normal life. As an important professional test approaches—the famous Leningrad Spartakiad—Ulya must face her own reality\, and choose what she really wants.  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/ulya-nybff/
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