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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261107T200000
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SUMMARY:ULYA | 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! \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/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:MY FAMILY AND OTHER CLOWNS | 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! \nOn Sunday\, November 8\, see My Family and Other Clowns (Minu pere ja muud klounid)\, directed by Heilika Pikkov and Liina Särkinen and winner of the Special Jury Prize at Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition\, Tallinn Black Nights and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s Annual Prize for Best Documentary. Co-Director Liina Särkinen will be present for a film talk and Q&A. \nHaide and Toomas are a married couple\, with three children living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in the suburb of Tallinn. They could be a perfectly ordinary family\, but there’s a catch—the parents in this family are famous clowns\, and one of the kids is autistic. Having spent 25 years building up their successful career in Estonia and abroad as Piip and Tuut\, Heide and Toomas have been entertaining thousands of children while their own kids grow up on their own. As they reach a breaking point\, they must make a decision—continue juggling their family and stage lives\, or give up their dream and save their family. Can they have it all? \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/my-family-and-other-clowns-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261108T140000
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SUMMARY:BORDERLINE | 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! \nOn Sunday\, November 8 at 2 PM\, see director Ignas Jonynas’ gripping thriller Borderline (Sienna). Lead actor Šarūnas Zenkevičius will be present for a film talk and Q&A.  \nAfter his wife’s death\, mourning 40-year-old ornithologist Vilius (Šarūnas Zenkevičius) is left alone to look after his daughter\, Urte. Driving home one day\, he accidentally hits a group of smugglers evading border control guards. Impressed by the bird-tracking GPS in Vilius’ car\, the criminals offer him a job—and seduced by the high pay and an escape from his daily struggles\, Vilius agrees. Soon he begins tracking smuggled goods across the border\, rather than migrating birds. But then one day a smuggler assigned to watch his house attacks Urte\, placing Vilius in an impossible situation. When he receives his next job\, he must make sure it won’t be his last.  \nBorderline was awarded Best Baltic Film at the PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights) in 2025\, and actor Šarūnas Zenkevičius received the European Shooting Star at Berlinale (2025) and Best Actor for Borderline at Lithuania’s Silver Crane Awards (2026) \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/borderline-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:THE CHILD | 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! \nOn Sunday at 4:30 PM\, see the Latvian drama The Child (Bērns). Director Linda Olte will be present for film talk and Q&A \nZane and Kaspars\, a couple in their late 30s\, seem to have it all—love\, careers\, a house and shared hobbies. But despite trying for several years\, they have been unable to have a child. After exploring clinics\, diets\, churches and healers\, Kaspars is slowly coming to terms with the idea that life can be fulfilling even without children. But for Zane—a former professional swimmer who has been trained since childhood to win—the idea of not becoming a mother is unacceptable. And with her 40s approaching\, there’s no time to waste. As she goes to grueling lengths to meet her target\, her relationship with Kaspars grows increasingly strained\, and Zane must question her role within her family and in society. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-child-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261108T190000
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SUMMARY:CLOSING NIGHT: OUR ERIKA | 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! \nThe Sunday evening screening will feature the U.S. Premiere of Our Erika (Meie Erika)\, Estonia’s The Sunday evening screening will feature the U.S. Premiere of Our Erika (Meie Erika)\, Estonia’s ’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards and 2026 NYBFF Closing Night Film with a talk with director German Golub. \nOur Erika is a heartfelt\, captivating story of Estonian track bicyclist Erika Salumäe\, who fought her way from a troubled childhood in orphanages and foster homes to the highest podium level of the Olympic Games. As a child born in 1962\, Salumäe struggled with an abusive home life\, shattered dreams\, and coaches with their own agendas—not to mention the harsh and dehumanizing sports system of the former Soviet Union. Despite this\, she went on to smash world records and rack up numerous medals\, culminating in an ultimate win: the first Olympic gold medal for Estonia in 56 years after the country regained independence in 1991. Directed by German Golub\, the recipient of the coveted Student Academy Award\, Our Erika features Karolin Jürise’s star-making performance as a determined and iron-willed athlete\, and shows how every nation needs a hero—even if that nation seldom stops to ask if there is something that the hero needs.  \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/closing-night-our-erika-nybff/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T190000
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SUMMARY:FJORD | NORDIC & BALTIC OSCAR CONTENDERS
DESCRIPTION:“A brilliantly knotted social drama” (Variety) — On November 10\, Scandinavia House presents a special screening of the 2026 Palme d’Or winner and Romania’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards: the thorny\, riveting\, and Norwegian-set drama Fjord. \nRomanian-Norwegian couple Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) and Mihai (Sebastian Stan) move with their five children to Lisbet’s remote Norwegian hometown\, where their conservative Evangelical beliefs set them apart from the otherwise progressive community.  When they come under suspicion over their parenting\, Norway’s child-protection system enters their private lives\, and as their beliefs face public scrutiny\, a clash of values turns into an morally prickly battle over who gets to decide what constitutes a good family. \nA foundational figure of 21st-century Romanian cinema\, Cristian Mungiu earned his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for this searing\, discomfiting social drama. Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve give superbly restrained performances as Mihai and Lisbet. Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation\, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions. Fjord returns the director to many of his recurring themes: the freedom of the individual within contemporary political systems\, the culture clash between modernity and tradition\, and how human care can imperceptibly evolve into a form of control. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/fjord-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:GROWTH OF THE SOIL | NORDIC & BALTIC OSCAR CONTENDERS
DESCRIPTION:On November 11\, Scandinavia House presents a special screening and director talk of Norway’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards: the “robustly classical\, weatherbeaten” epic Growth of the Soil! This program takes place as part of our Films from the Fjords series. \nA stranger appears over the mountain\, carrying little more than his determination. Isak (Herbert Nordrum\, The Worst Person in the World)\, a man without a past\, seeks a place to settle and carve life from the earth. High above the tree line\, he finds a barren stretch of land\, as unforgiving as it is full of promise. The land tests him to his limits\, until he meets Inger (Asta Kamma August)\, a solitary woman shaped by resilience and quiet secrecy. Together\, they endure the elements and build a life\, cultivating both the soil and a growing family as the seasons turn. Yet as years pass and the world closes in\, and time\, hardship\, and desire reshape them. \nA director best known for his collaborations with actor Stellan Skarsgård\, Hans Petter Moland demonstrates formidable command of his art with this powerful and richly textured adaptation of Growth of the Soil\, the 1917 novel that won its author Knut Hamsun the Nobel Prize in Literature. Sharing the original’s fervently realistic style and reverence for the natural world\, Moland’s latest feature opens as the captivating story of one man’s battle with a dauntingly rugged environment. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/growth-of-the-soil-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T173000
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SUMMARY:SEASIDERS | FILMS FROM THE FJORDS
DESCRIPTION:On November 12\, Scandinavia House presents a special screening as a part of our Films From the Fjords series: the witty\, unrestrained documentary Seasiders. \nBlending a century of archive footage with the voices of storytellers\, Seasiders follows the Norwegian coast and its people through different eras\, memories and experiences. These people live at the mercy of the unruly weather and sea\, far from the centers of power – facing the open horizon and the world beyond. How has this affected their disposition\, sense of community and way of life? Do the people of the sea have their own distinct identity\, and is it still alive today?  \n\nGarnering the Launch of the Year title at the 2026 Norwegian International Film Festival\, SEASIDERS is a humorous\, epic and unsentimental love letter to the people who live along Norway’s coastline. Combining unique historical archive footage with the passionate storytellers from the coast\, the film is an abundant depiction of a culture anchoring many\, and concerning everyone. \n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/seasiders/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T193000
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SUMMARY:BELOVED | FILMS FROM THE FJORDS
DESCRIPTION:“A love story full of the unspoken\, tenderness\, and mystery” — On November 12\, Scandinavia House presents a special screening to wrap up our Films From the Fjords series: the sparse\, beautifully-rendered drama Beloved. \nIn a small coastal town\, Asle and Gerd find each other in a tavern and become parents to a boy\, building a seemingly-idyllic life in the crook of the fjord. But soon enough\, their perfect love is put to test. Asle\, a sailor\, is inexorably drawn by the call of the sea\, leaving Gerd alone with the child as distance grows between them. Told in Fosse’s minimalist style\, through silence\, glances and landscape\, the story rests on deep compassion for three lives\, and asks how much distance love can endure before it breaks. \n\nDirected by internationally acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe (U-July 22\, 2018; Quisling\, 2024)\, BELOVED is an intimate relationship drama based on the only original screenplay by 2023 Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse\, whose minimalist and deeply human language shapes a story of love\, distance and emotional rupture. Poppe’s precise visual storytelling and profound sensitivity to human vulnerability elevate the narrative into a universal exploration of intimacy\, absence and the fragile architecture of family life. The film stars Leo Magnus de la Nuez (Beforeigners\, 2019) and Kristi-Helene Giæver Engeberg (War Sailor\, 2022). \n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/beloved-films-from-the-fjords/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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