Scandinavia House

SOLITUDE + SHORTS | WEST NORDIC FILM DAYS
2025-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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.
Opening Night on Friday, March 14 will include screenings of the Icelandic feature film Solitude (Tilverur, dir. Ninna Rún Pálmadóttir, 2022), followed by the Faroese short film Omman (Grandmother, 2019, dir. Julia í Kálvalí) and and the Greenlandic short film Entropy (dir. Inuk Jørgensen, 2024).
In Solitude a farmer is forced to relocate from the countryside to the capital, where he develops a transformative friendship with a 10-year-old paper boy, in a poetic film celebrating the comfort and care of unexpected connections. In Omman, two brothers head up to the mountains to find their alcoholic grandmother; ahead of them lies a disturbing journey home. And in the scenic short film Entropy, the vast Greenlandic film cap becomes a symbol of the director’s people, who have always lived in close and sacred connection with the nature around them.

PEOPLE OF STEEL | SCREENING & FILM TALK
2025-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for the U.S. Premiere of People of Steel, a new documentary showcasing the heroic defense of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, with a film talk by director Serhiy Fomenko.
The war in the Ukraine began in 2014 after the victory of the Ukrainians in the Revolution of Dignity. After the subsequent annexation of Crimea and the occupation of parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Russia started a long and brutal war against the sovereign state, framed as “civil conflict” under Russian propaganda. In February 2022, Putin made an announcement on a special operation on denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, which was followed by large-scale missile attacks by the Russian federation: on targets of civilian infrastructure, airborne landings, infantry, artillery and tanks, and sabotage groups. The attack on the capital of Ukraine, the city of Kyiv, caused great human casualties — as did attacks on Irpin, Bucha, Kherson, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Chernihiv, and others.
In the true story of Ukrainian People of Steel, Mariupol — an industrial strategic port city in the southeast of Ukraine—became the site of one of the bloodiest and most brutal battles of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Defending the city was the Mariupol garrison, which consisted of the special unit of “Azov,” including soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine, marine brigades, board guards, police officers, volunteers from the Territorial Defense and paramedics. Through interviews with these regiment members and footage of the battles, filmmaker Serhiy Fomenko tells their story.
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This program is co-presented with the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations, the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, and the “Watch Ukrainian!” Association.

GIANTS IN THE EARTH REDISCOVERED
2025-03-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Published 100 years ago, Ole Rolvaag’s novel Giants in the Earth was the quintessential American immigrant story. Douglas Moore’s operatic setting won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951 but has remained largely unknown and never recorded.
On March 11, join us for a program that surveys the rediscovery of this important American opera, including excerpts from the opera sung by the two protagonists. The presentation is led by South Dakota Symphony Orchestra music director Delta David Gier, veteran stage directors Jay Lesenger and Bob Neu.
Performers
Meredith Lustig, soprano
Michael Kelly, baritone
Jeremy Chan, piano
Delta David Gier, speaker
Jay Lesenger, speaker
Bob Neu, speaker

ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME | NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE
2025-03-11 18:00 - 19:00
Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On March 11, we’ll be discussing the first volume of Solvej Balle’s speculative fiction septology On the Calculation of Volume, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize and now out in translation by Barbara J. Haveland.
Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November 18th repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the 18th of November.”)
Balle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her memories of the past light up inside the text like old-fashioned flash bulbs.
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DOROGU
2025-03-09 14:30 - 16:30 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On Sunday, March 9 join us for a screening of the Dorogu trilogy (dir. Jyrki Haapala, Finland, 2024), the first ever Karelian-language film in cinematic history! Karelia, a region of northeastern Europe on the border between Finland and Russia, is a site of incredible geopolitical tension in the era of Russia’s war of aggression. A film talk featuring lead actors Anna Hakkarainen and Minna Karttunen will follow the screening.
Dorogu—On the Mystical Paths of Karelia film trilogy comprises of three Karelian-language short films Veneh, Lindu and Ilmu. The name of the trilogy, Dorogu, means “road,” and these films take the viewer on a journey of transition. Dorogu depicts the sacred and important rites of passage which hold high significance in the Karelian culture and traditions. The trilogy also documents and exhibits the ancient tradition of reciting lamentations and spells, which were of great importance when any transitional rituals took place. Nature plays a central role in the films, almost hypnotically taking viewers on a journey to a mythical landscape.
Veneh depicts the Karelian lament wedding tradition, held at the bride’s home. Viewers follow her last day at her family home, before the groom collects her to bring her away to his family. Lindu concerns Karelian mythology and ritualism related to death. The film follows the journey of a dead man’s soul to his home, as he is guided by a soul bird. Ilmu explores birth and related Karelian mythology and ritualism.

NYICFF | SHORT FILMS 3
2025-03-08 15:00 - 16:30 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 28–March 16 throughout New York City in 2025, with six screenings at Scandinavia House.
SHORT FILMS THREE features selections for our older crowd: teens and grown-ups only. Shorts include the Japanese animation A Night at the Rest Area (Saki Muramoto, 2024, 12 min. In Japanese with English subtitles), and others; see the full lineup for this program here.
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NYICFF | SHORT FILMS 1
2025-03-08 13:15 - 15:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 28–March 16 throughout New York City in 2025, with six screenings at Scandinavia House.
The program SHORT FILMS ONE features selections for our littlest crowd—moviegoers ages five to ten. Whether you’re a baby chick who’s flown the coop, a budding Lego master, or just out for a movie, there’s lots to get into. Shorts include the Portuguese animation The Girl with the Occupied Eyes (André Carrilho, 2024, 8 min. No dialogue), and others; see the full lineup for this program here.
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NYICFF | MOOMINVALLEY
2025-03-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 28–March 16 throughout New York City in 2025, with six screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets.
Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners.
In Moominvalley, our Moominfriends return for more all-new adventures just in time to celebrate their 80th anniversary (and they don’t look a day over… however old they’re supposed to be!). In Moominpappa and Aunt Jane, Moominpappa mustn’t let a surprise visit from his formidable Aunt spoil his book launch party. Then, Little My and Snorkmaiden head to the Lonely Mountains to confront a solitary bogeywoman in Song of the Groke. Finally, an SOS from an old friend sends Moominpappa and Moomintroll on a rescue mission into the frozen wilderness in Moominpappa the Great Explorer. (66 min. Ages 5+ | Dir. Nigel Davies | Finland & United Kingdom, 2024. In English)
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DAHOMEY
2025-03-07 18:30 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
See the two of the shortlisted finalists for this year’s LUX Audience Awards this season at Scandinavia House! On March 7 we’ll be screening Dahomey, Mati Diop’s riveting documentary about the 2021 repatriation of royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey to the present-day Republic of Benin.
In November 2021, 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these artefacts were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. But what attitude should the Beninese adopt to their homecoming, in a country that had to forge ahead in their absence? The debate rages among students at the University of Abomey-Calavi.
“Open-ended, fecund with imagination and ideas, never hectoring or lecturing, not so much posing questions as asking what questions might be posed: Mati Diop’s film is a marvelous provocation” (Deadline).
This event has been organized by the European Parliament in partnership with Scandinavia House.

LIVE JAZZ WITH CECIL AND ARI ALEXANDER
2025-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us on March 6 for a live jazz performance with Cecil and Ari Alexander! The artists will present a captivating selection of original compositions, timeless classics, and Danish folk songs from their album Duos and the upcoming Duos 2. These works are uniquely arranged for voice, piano, and various configurations of guitars and music production.
Ari Alexander, a Danish-American artist, holds a deep connection to both jazz and singer-songwriter traditions. Her passion for jazz was ignited by her vibrant musical heritage, which includes her grandmother and great-aunt, jazz vocalist Teddi King, while her connection to the northern Danish coastline and nature nurtured her sense of adventure and descriptive storytelling. Ari has performed at renowned venues such as the Copenhagen Jazz Festival and intimate jazz clubs worldwide. She has also had the honor of performing for members of the Danish royal family.
Cecil, an award-winning jazz guitarist, was a finalist in the prestigious Herbie Hancock Competition in 2019. Recently signed to Heartcore Records, a Berlin-based label founded by legendary guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, Cecil’s playing has garnered high praise. Rosenwinkel describes Cecil’s artistry as ““…Ideas and chops and sensitivity. Everything we want to hear and everything we want to play. I was an instant fan!” Most recently, Cecil has joined the touring band of Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) where he has had the privilege to tour three different continents and connect with musicians and traditions across a diverse array of cultures.

THE DAY ICELAND STOOD STILL
2025-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Celebrate International Women’s Day with a March 5 screening of The Day Iceland Stood Still, with a film talk by director Pamela Hogan!
When 90 percent of the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to a standstill and catapulted Iceland to the “best place in the world to be a woman.” Told for the first time by the women themselves, and laced with playful animation, The Day Iceland Stood Still is subversive and unexpectedly funny. “We loved our male chauvinist pigs,” recalls one of the activists, “We just wanted to change them a little!”
Filmed in a collaboration between U.S. director Hogan, who campaigned as a high school student in the 1970s with her activist mother to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, who at the age of seven accompanied her mother to the 1975 strike, the film features appearances by celebrities such as former Icelandic president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the world’s first democratically elected female head of state, as well as music by Björk. Released in the lead-up to the strike’s 50th anniversary in 2025, the film’s message about the collective power of women to transform their society inspires viewers to reimagine the impossible.
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GALLERY TOUR | NORDIC UTOPIA?
2025-03-05 17:30 - 18:05, 2025-02-19 17:30 - 18:05 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On view from November 26, 2024 to March 9, 2025 at Scandinavia House, Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century looks at the significance of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden as destinations for African American cultural figures including Ronald Burns, Doug Crutchfield, Herb Gentry, Dexter Gordon, William Henry Johnson, Howard Smith and Walter Williams through a range of artifacts, artworks (music, paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles), and documentary evidence (photography, film, and journalistic writing). In this guided tour by Emily Stoddart, ASF’s Manager of Exhibitions & Community Programs, learn about the artists in this exhibition and their works.
These free, 35-minute public tours meet in the Gallery elevator lobby. Gallery tours are subject to change; please check with the Scandinavia House front desk or email info@amscan.org.
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LOST DANISH TREASURE
2025-03-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On March 4, join us for a book talk with award-winning Chicago architect Carl J. D’Silva on his new book Lost Danish Treasure, exploring Danish modernist Finn Juhl’s iconic Chieftan Chair and the mystery behind a long-lost design artifact, out now from Oro Editions!
Growing up, almost every kid dreams of finding buried treasure. That dream slowly fades with age as they realize that Blackbeard never visited their backyard. For some, the search for treasure continues in their adult lives in other ways. Metal detectors and shovels may be replaced with online searches and library visits, but the thrill of the hunt is still alive, ever driving the quest forward.
Lost Danish Treasure tells the tale of two stories: 1) the history of Finn Juhl’s iconic Chieftain Chair and a long-forgotten painting that preceded it, and 2) the individual connections to this design by a small group of collector researchers. Although starting in different eras and timelines, the two accounts start to intertwine over the course of the book, with the research efforts of today helping to unravel the mysteries of the past. As each chapter unfolds, more and more clues are revealed that slowly weave the storylines closer together — until the summer of 2021, when both accounts collided after Lot 242 popped up in an auction house in Chicago. The result of the subsequent analysis sheds new light about the origins and identity of the very first Chieftain Chair.
This program is co-presented with the Consulate General of Denmark in New York, the AIA and the Center for Architecture.
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THE SOUTHERN CHRONICLES
2025-03-03 18:30 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On March 3, New York Baltic Film Festival at Scandinavia House presents a screening and director talk on the hit new Lithuanian coming-of-age film, The Southern Chronicles! Director Ignas Miškinis will be present for a film talk and Q&A about the film exploring a young man’s struggle with love and the future amid a newly independent 1990s Lithuania.
In a working-class neighborhood of the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, a few years after the restoration of the country’s independence, brawny 17-year-old Rimants (Džiugas Grinys) is on the cusp of adulthood. More interested in playing rugby, listening to bands and dealing on the black market with his friend Minde than studying at school — much to the disapproval of his parents — Rimants is certain that physical strength and money are the essentials for success in a changing, competitive society. But when he meets and falls in love with the beautiful, middle-class Monika, Rimants is introduced to a new world of literature, culture and alternative possibilities which he explores with guarded enthusiasm. However, frustrated by the difficult, fickle nature of young love and the ever-present obstacles of class, Rimants eventually casts aside the expectations of others and begins to contemplate a future on his own terms.
Based on the semi-autobiographical book by Rimantas Kmiti, The Southern Chronicles (Pietinia kronikas) was awarded Best Baltic Film at Tallinn Black Nights and is a portrait of a ’90s generation with a lot of humor, music and the special slang of Šiauliai.
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NYICFF | WINNERS
2025-03-01 15:30 - 17:30 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 28–March 16 throughout New York City in 2025, with six screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets.
Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners.
In Winners, Mona is struggling to find her footing after arriving with her Kurdish family in Berlin. Her hair is wrong, her accent’s wrong, and she misses home. Home is Syria, or at least it was before she was forced to flee. They’re safe now, but busy Berlin offers a different kind of chaos. Kids challenge teachers, mean girls pick fights, and Mona barely knows any German. What she does know is soccer, even if she vowed never to play after leaving her Syrian team and her cherished aunt Helin. Things don’t get any better when her new teacher and coach convinces her to join the team. Mona and her mates know that teamwork doesn’t come easy, but there’s only one way to win. (119 min. Ages 10+ | Dir. Soleen Yusef | Germany, 2024 In German with English subtitles.)
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NYICFF | ¡SALTA!
2025-03-01 13:30 - 15:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 28–March 16 throughout New York City in 2025, with six screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets.
Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners.
In ¡Salta!, Oscar and Teo (13 and 11 years old) are two brothers, very different from each other, who will have to face the loss of their mother, a scientist obsessed with wormholes. Come for the killer ‘80s soundtrack and gorgeous Spanish seaside vistas. Stay for the wormholes and a brotherly love that spans decades (1940s, 1980s, and 2020s, to be exact—just not always in that order). (85 min. Ages 8+ | Dir. Olga Osorio | Spain, 2023. In Spanish with English subtitles )
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NYICFF | KENSUKE'S KINGDOM
2025-03-01 11:30 - 13:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Explore the world without leaving New York! The New York International Children’s Film Festival takes place February 28–March 16 throughout New York City in 2025, with six screenings at Scandinavia House. For complete lineup and tickets visit nyicff.org/tickets.
Fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners.
In Kensuke’s Kingdom, Michael and his dog, Stella, are swept overboard when a violent storm befalls his family’s sailing trip. They awake dazed on a beautiful remote island where they must quickly find their wits and the resources to survive—a challenge no less steep for all the island’s beauty. Upon their return from an unsuccessful expedition, they may not be alone; someone has left water near their camp. Soon he meets his mysterious benefactor: an ornery Japanese man named Kensuke, who has been the island’s sole inhabitant since World War II. Despite Kensuke’s rigid boundaries and rules for the island, a friendship begins to form. It couldn’t come at a more fortuitous time, as dangerous invaders begin to threaten their secret world and they must work together to preserve their fragile paradise. (89 min. Ages 8+ | Dir. Neil Boyle & Kirk Hendry | France, Luxembourg & United Kingdom, 2023. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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'ROUND MIDNIGHT | WITH MAXINE GORDON & RICHARD BRODY
2025-02-26 18:30 - 21:30
On February 26, in coordination with our ongoing exhibition Nordic Utopia?, join us for a screening and film talk on the 1986 classic ‘Round Midnight, a musical drama starring Dexter Gordon! Maxine Gordon, the widow of the late jazz legend and author of his biography Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon (University of California Press), will be present for a film talk with film critic Richard Brody of the New Yorker.
‘Round Midnight is a love letter from director Bertrand Tavernier to the heyday of bebop and the Black American musicians who found refuge in the smoky underground jazz clubs of 1950s Paris. In a sui generis, Oscar-nominated fusion of performer and character, legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner, a brilliant New York jazz veteran whose music aches with beauty but whose personal life is ravaged by addiction. Searching for a fresh start in Paris, Turner strikes up an unlikely friendship with a struggling single father and ardent jazz fan (François Cluzet) who finds his life transformed as he attempts to help the musician.
Herbie Hancock’s evocative, Oscar-winning score sets the mood for this definitive jazz film, a bittersweet opus that glows with lived-in, soulful authenticity. Round Midnight was also nominated for Best Academy Award for Best Actor for Gordon’s performance and a winner of numerous other awards.
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THE ROCKS WILL ECHO OUR SORROW | VIRTUAL TALK WITH ELIN ANNA LABBA & MATHILDE MAGGA
2025-02-25 14:00 - 15:30
Join us on February 25 for a virtual book talk with Sámi author and journalist Elin Anna Labba on her book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow! With moderator Mathilde Magga, she’ll discuss her research and writing on the forced displacement of the Indigenous Sámi from Norway and Sweden in the early 20th century, told through a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir and lyrical imagining that was awarded Sweden’s August Prize for Best Nonfiction in 2020. This event is co-presented with National Nordic Museum in Seattle and will take place online. *A Zoom link will be emailed to all attendees immediately after ticket purchase.*
More than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. We carry our homes in our hearts, Labba shares, citing the Sámi poet Áillohaš. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early 20th century and to reclaim a place in history, and in today’s world, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.
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NORDIC UTOPIA? — A SYMPOSIUM
2025-02-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join co-curators Ethelene Whitmire and Leslie Anne Anderson and scholars Denise Murrell and Tamara J. Walker as they expand on the various themes, artistic output, and shared histories on view in the exhibition Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century, presented at Scandinavia House until Saturday, March 8th, 2025.
Nordic Utopia? looks at the significance of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden as destinations for African American cultural figures including Ronald Burns, Doug Crutchfield, Herb Gentry, Dexter Gordon, William Henry Johnson, Howard Smith, and Walter Williams through a range of artifacts, artworks (music, paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, textiles), and documentary evidence (photography, film, and journalistic writing).
In this conversation, the curators and scholars will discuss notable works, stylistic influences, and the undertold stories of various African American artists who sought new possibilities, inspiration, and environments in the Nordic countries in the 20th century.
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NORDIC UTOPIA? AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE 20TH CENTURY | ADULT ART WORKSHOP
2025-02-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us on February 22 for a workshop inspired by artwork in Scandinavia House’s current exhibition, Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century. Many of the included artists were influenced by their move to different art scenes in Scandinavian countries, which also often connected to then-contemporary music and jazz. In this relaxed beginner workshop, teaching artist Margrethe Aanestad will guide students in using collage and painting techniques to create visual interpretations of music and sound. All materials will be provided.
There is a limit of 15 participants for this workshop.
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AREPO
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us February 20 for a performance by international ensemble AREPO! Based between Oslo and New York City, the quartet consists of clarinetist Madara E. Mezale (Latvia), guitarist Marco Slaviero (Italy), accordionist Noël Rubli (Switzerland) and cellist and vocalist Elizabeth Kate (USA). The evening’s program will present pieces commissioned by AREPO to two Oslo-resident composers: Olivia Køppe Christoffersen (Denmark) and Ferdinand Schwarz (Germany); in addition, AREPO will be performing music by Nicholas Morrish (UK) and Tomasz Jakub Opałka (Poland).
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SOLD OUT: LOST, REFUSED — FOUND, REUSED
2025-02-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
*This event is now sold out*
Join us at Scandinavia House for a beginner-friendly adult art workshop. Inspired by the work of Scandinavian artists like Ásta Ólafsdóttir, Isabel Berglund, and Kristian Devantier, participants will create three-dimensional assemblage art from found materials. Guided by teaching artist Korka, participants will create their own work in a relaxed atmosphere. All materials are provided.
There is a limit of 12 participants for this workshop.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Melkorka Helgadottir, A.K.A. Korka, is an Icelandic visual artist and teaching artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in Sculpture from San Francisco Art Institute and has taught for Brooklyn Arts Council, LEAP, and Studio in a School. As a teaching artist, Korka believes in nurturing the creative spark that each of her students possesses. She is currently working on an autobiographical comic.
Image courtesy Isabel Berglund and Kristian Devantier

A CELEBRATION OF DOUG CRUTCHFIELD
2025-02-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Presented in coordination with the ongoing exhibition Nordic Utopia?, join us on February 19 for a screening and discussion of Dancing Prophet (1971), directed by Bruce D’Aubert Baker, and An Encomium for Doug Crutchfield, a short directed by Amir George.
Following the screening, Dr. Davia J. Crutchfield, Doug Crutchfield’s great-niece will speak with Calvin Royal III, Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, about Crutchfield’s story and lasting impact in the performing arts today.
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THE QUIET ONES
2025-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
“Electric..an intense powder keg keg of a movie” (The Daily Beast) — join us February 18 for a special sneak preview screening of the Danish heist thriller The Quiet Ones!
Inspired by the true story of Denmark’s biggest heist, The Quiet Ones (De lydløse) depicts a group of extremely tenacious, ambitious, and uncompromising robbers who all share the same ambition: to succeed with the impossible — despite major obstacles, internal conflicts, secret agendas, and personal costs. As the financial crisis hits Europe in 2008, a group of Danish and European men band together to commit a spectacular coup. Their shortcut to greatness and wealth—at whatever cost—will require long, detailed, and risky preparation. (Dir. Frederik Louis Hvid, Denmark, 2024)
The Quiet Ones will be out in theaters on February 21.
Special thanks to Magnolia Pictures.
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ANIMAL
2025-02-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
See the two of the shortlisted finalists for this year’s LUX Audience Awards this season at Scandinavia House! On February 15 we’ll be screening Animal, director Sofia Exarchou’s “darkly intriguing” (The Hollywood Reporter) film exploring the downsides of all-inclusive tourist hotels.
Under the hot Greek sun, the animateurs at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for the busy touristic season. Kalia is the leader of the pack. Paper decors, glossy costumes and dance shows fill the stage. As summer intensifies and the work pressure builds up, their nights become violent and Kalia’s struggle is revealed in the darkness. But when the spotlights turn on again, the show must go on.
This event has been organized by the European Parliament in partnership with Scandinavia House.
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LENA JONSSON TRIO
2025-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us February 13 for a performance by Swedish folk artists the Lena Jonsson Trio! Acclaimed for their unique mix of deeply rooted Swedish folk, jazz, American old-time and electroacoustic sounds, the trio has been the recipient of awards including Artist of the Year at the Swedish Folk awards. Led by the visionary musician Lena Jonsson alongside guitarist Erik Ronström and bassist Krydda Sundström, the virtuosic and playful trio’s album Stories from the Outside won both a Swedish Grammis and the Manifest prize in 2021. Stories from the Outside also won Album of the year by LIRA Music Magazine and song of the year by Swedish radio. They released their third album Elements in June 2023.
“One of the best crafted ‘new traditions’ compilations I’ve heard for a long time” (The Living Tradition).
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VIRTUAL SCREENINGS | THE 2025 SÁMI FILM FESTIVAL
2025-02-13
The Annual Sámi Film Festival returns to Scandinavia House and virtually nationwide! Now in its 7th year, the festival celebrates the rich storytelling traditions of the Sámi, an Indigenous people of the northernmost parts of Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. This year’s program is curated by acclaimed visual artist Matti Aikio, whose work in sound and video art has captivated audiences across the globe, and one of 12 artists featured in Arctic Highways, a 2023 exhibition exploring contemporary art by Indigenous artists from the Arctic.
All films in the lineup will screen in-person on February 6 & 8 and virtually from February 7 through 13. The program combines short films and feature films from different eras, pairing canonical films such as Markku Lehmuskallio’s Skierri with new experimental films, which defy categorization in genres and resemble video art. Presented annually in partnership with the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, this year’s festival will also be co-presented with Anchorage Museum, a significant art, history, ethnography, ecology, and science museum dedicated to studying and exploring the land, peoples, art, and history of Alaska.
PROGRAM
Dajan — I say (2024)
Dir. Alice Márja Jektevik, Kim Saarinen | 4 min.
A music video consisting of two songs by Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvios, “Gulan” and “Dajan,” Dajan — I Say mirrors artist and yoiker Länsman’s personal journey in finding her way back home to Sápmi, and discovering the strength to say no to things she does not want for herself. Produced in the border areas on the Finnish and Norwegian side of Sápmi, around Länsman’s home village Ohcejohka, the film’s title comes from the northern Saami word “Dajan,” which directly translates to “I say.” The song invites you to move freely in the world to the beat of your own decisions.
Skierri – vaivaiskoivujen maa /Skierri – Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982)
Dir. Markku Lehmuskallio | 118 min.
In Sápmi, a reindeer herder follows the traditional cycles of migratory life, which keep him apart from his home and wife for long periods of time. “Two cultures collide, the minority culture and the majority one. We try to show another way of thinking in this world,” said director Markku Lehmuskallio. The director spent a year working with reindeer herders before filming to better understand the Sámi way of life. Skierri was the first Finnish feature film in which the Sámi people speak their language. The music of Erik Satie is combined with the sounds of nature.
Biegga bieggá /Wind is Winding (2024)
Dir. Jenni Laiti & Lada Suomenrinne | 42 min.
They swallow our rivers, and the valleys turn into one big tear of grief. Yet, there are beings who gather the grief for a journey, for what they are carrying the wounded trees and all living beings. Their luggage is full of legacy from the world that is ending, and they will find the path to a portal when the first snow of the winter falls. The wind blows and leads the voyagers to a utopia, challenging them with the questions of being.
Post-Capitalist Architecture TV Part 2 — On Nomadism and Flow (2022) and Part 5 — On the Gumpi (2022)
Dir. Joar Nango & Ken Are Bongo | 37 min. (Part 2) and 40 min. (Part 5)
As a prologue to his 2020 exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall, Joar Nango made three films, together with Sámi filmmaker Ken Are Bongo, that explore Sámi architecture in a TV show format. The series was produced by Bergen Kunsthall as part of the official festival program for the Bergen International Festival in May 2020, which could not be held in a physical form due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The series was filmed with a mobile TV studio during travels through the northern landscape, meeting guests for interviews and visiting key architectural sites.
Sámi Bojá (2015)
Dir. Elle Sofe Henriksen | 9 min.
Sámi Bojá is about Mikkel, a reindeer herder who has the entire responsibility for his family’s herd. He has a tough shell like a Sámi bojá should have, but internally, there is chaos.
Maiílmmittkus (2024)
Dir. Hans Pieski & Arttu Nieminen | 8 min.
Modern technology is often seen as a downfall of sustainable ways of living on the land, but according to many historians the Sámi have themselves, at least partly, embraced and welcomed the technical revolution in the past. What is modern technology’s relationship to the Sámi culture? Is breaking away from technology possible anymore? In this surreal journey into their complex relationship, various stages of technological development are depicted alongside their impact on Indigenous populations.
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FLOW
2025-02-12 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for a special screening of Flow (dir. Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia/France/Belgium, 2024)! The film, which had its New York premiere at Scandinavia House during the 2024 New York Baltic Film Festival, recently won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and is Latvia’s contender for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards. Director Gints Zilbalodis will be present for an audience Q&A.

A wondrous journey through natural and mystical realms, the animated feature Flow (dir. Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia/France/Belgium, 2024) follows a courageous cat and a capybara, lemur, bird and dog after their homes are devastated by a great flood. Teaming up to navigate a boat in search of dry land, the animals must rely on trust, courage and wits to survive the perils of their newly aquatic planet. Flow is a thrilling animated spectacle and a profound meditation on environmental fragility, as well as the spirit of friendship and community. Through charming, expressive, and visually enrapturing 3D animation, director Gints Zilbalodis stunned audiences at Cannes with this heartwarming tale of friendship, teamwork, and adventure.
“Brimming with sentiment but not sentimentality, one of the most moving animated films in recent memory, and groundbreaking too” (IndieWire).
“A joy to experience but also a deeply affecting story, the work of a unique talent who deserves to be ranked among the world’s great animation artists” (The Hollywood Reporter).

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