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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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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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SUMMARY:THE SECRET READING CLUB OF KABUL | NORDIC & BALTIC OSCAR CONTENDERS
DESCRIPTION:On December 2\, Scandinavia House presents a special screening and director talk of a Finnish qualifier for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards: the powerful documentary The Secret Reading Club of Kabul. \nIn Taliban-controlled Afghanistan\, where women are denied the right to study\, work\, and speak freely\, a group of young women make a radical choice: they read. Inspired by Anne Frank\, they secretly form a reading club and begin writing their own diaries — not as victims\, but as witnesses. The Secret Reading Club becomes an act of resistance: documenting their lives as a timeless defense of humanity\, beyond borders or eras. \nPartially filmed by the women themselves\, The Secret Reading Club of Kabul is an intimate and confidential testimony to the power of art to keep hope and humanism alive. It is also a moving declaration of love for literature and for the act of reading itself.  The story is interwoven with director Shakiba Adil’s own journey. As a girl\, she grew up under the first Taliban regime\, and after the fall of the Taliban\, she became the first woman to appear on Afghan television. After being forced to flee her homeland twice\, she has now dedicated her film to the new generation facing the same oppression she herself has endured. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-secret-reading-club-of-kabul-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR | NORDIC & BALTIC OSCAR CONTENDERS
DESCRIPTION:On December 3\, Scandinavia House presents a special screening featuring Lithuania’s official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards: the “smart\, dryly humorous” and widely lauded How to Divorce During the War. \nVilnius\, 2022. High-flying executive Marija chooses the worst possible moment to inform her husband Vytas she wants a divorce: just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Suddenly the couple must navigate separating in the middle of a refugee and mid-life crisis. As the reason for their divorce gradually becomes clear\, the dissolution of the marriage and the turmoil of world events creates conflicts and opportunities for them both—and for their ever-observant young daughter. Packed with surprises along with much heartache and soul searching\, Andrius Blaževičius’ nuanced and timely family drama skillfully depicts the fallout of a marriage against the backdrop of extraordinary events with humor and compassion. \n“A subtly searing comedy… both empathetic and surgical.” (Variety) \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/how-to-divorce-during-the-war-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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