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VIRTUAL SCREENINGS (MULTIPLE) — NEW YORK BALTIC FILM FESTIVAL
2023-11-13 08:00 - 23:30, 2023-11-14 08:00 - 23:30, 2023-11-15 08:00 - 23:30, 2023-11-16 08:00 - 23:30, 2023-11-17 08:00 - 23:30, 2023-11-18 08:00 - 23:30, 2023-11-19 08:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | NY
The 6th 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 festival will once again take place in a hybrid festival with both in-person and virtual screenings. Virtual films in the festival will once again be available to viewers all across the U.S. via the Elevent streaming platform November 10-19.
Virtual screenings of all films will be available following their premieres at Scandinavia House, as well as two films screening online-only, and will remain available to stream through November 19.
VIRTUAL SCHEDULE
Beginning Friday, November 10
Melchior the Apothecary (Apteeker Melchior, dir. Elmo Nüganen, Estonia/Germany/Latvia/Lithuania, 2022)
Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost (Apteeker Melchior. Viirastus, dir. Elmo Nüganen, Estonia/Germany/Latvia/Lithuania, 2022)
Beginning Saturday, November 11
Machina Faust (dir. Kaupo Kruusiauk, Estonia, 2023)
Collective (dir. Aik Karapetian, Edgars Kaupers, Papa Chi, Oskars Rupenheits, Marta Elīna Martinsone, Mārtiņš,Latvia, 2023)
Beginning Sunday, November 12
Melchior The Apothecary: The Executioner’s Daughter (Apteeker Melchior. Timuka tütar, dir. Elmo Nüganen, Estonia/Germany/Latvia/Lithuania, 2023)
Soviet Milk (Mātes piens, dir. Ināra Kolmane, Latvia/Belgium, 2023)
Beginning Monday, November 13
Crime Solving for Beginners — Full 7-episode season (Krimināllieta iesācējam, dir. Armands Zvirbulis, Latvia/Lithuania, 2022)
The Poet (Poetas, dir. Giedrius Tamoševičius & Vytautas V. Landsbergis, Lithuania, 2022)

SWEDISH BEGINNER 2 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-11-13 18:10 - 19:10, 2023-11-15 19:50 - 20:50 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! This course is for those who are still new to Swedish but perhaps have studied some on their own using apps or through other means. Students will have a basic knowledge of sentence structure, greetings, know their numbers, how to tell time and already possess a small but basic vocabulary. This semester the students will move beyond themselves and explore how to buy and order things, talk about what they do in their spare time, and read about an historical figure. Grammatically they will expand into other tenses and learn how adjectives and nouns inform each other. Various facets of Swedish life may be discussed during the course. This class will take place as hybrid learning on Mondays with classes offered at Scandinavia House and online via Zoom, and online-only on Wednesdays.
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SWEDISH BEGINNER 1
2023-11-13 19:20 - 20:20, 2023-11-15 18:40 - 19:40 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! In this course held both in-person and as remote learning for those completely new to Swedish, students will learn the very basics of Swedish structure and pronunciation while also discussing cultural aspects of Swedish life. This class will take place as hybrid learning, with Monday sessions both online and in-person at Scandinavia House and Wednesday sessions online via Zoom.
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NORWEGIAN 1 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-11-14 17:45 - 18:45, 2023-11-15 17:45 - 18:45 | NY
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this beginner’s course, you will build your Norwegian vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar skills, while also learning about Norwegian culture and life. By the course’s end, you should be able to conduct simple conversations in Norwegian.
You will get to practice conversations and reading in class, and there will be a focus on pronunciation, and Norwegian vowels and sounds, which may be new to your ear. Students are welcome to bring personal experiences, anecdotes, and facts about Norway into class discussions. There will also be at-home assignments focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as an optional end-of-semester presentation.
Outside of class, students are encouraged to watch Norwegian shows, and movies, read simple text, and have Norwegian podcasts on in the background.
The required text will be provided via pdf, before the first class.
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SWEDISH ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-11-14 18:10 - 19:50 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! This course held both online and in-person at Scandinavia House is aimed for students who are slightly more advanced in Swedish, and are able to speak the language without too much effort, as well as easily read novels. Students will engage in conversation and discussions, and themes will be of a more philosophical nature, involving global questions and fiction. Grammatically, various structures and conjugations will be reviewed so students can refine their speech and writing. Students will be assigned a book to read during the semester.
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NORWEGIAN 3 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! In this intermediate-level course building upon Norwegian 2 (or its equivalent), all four core skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are covered, with an emphasis on conversational Norwegian. Continue to expand your vocabulary and master grammatical structures, while enhancing your conversational abilities, and deepening your cultural knowledge of all things Norwegian, through study of themes related to daily life.
You will get to practice more in-depth conversations in class which will put your grammatical structures to the test, all the while building on your listening, and speaking skills. Focus will be given to pronunciation, Norwegian structure, tone, and flow. Students will have the opportunity to engage in discussion by bringing topics that interest them about Norway into class, including anecdotes, and personal experiences. There will also be weekly at-home assignments, and more, focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as a recommend end-of-semester presentation.
Outside of class, students are encouraged to read Norwegian articles, listen to podcasts and/or audio books, and watch Norwegian shows and movies, weekly.
The required text will be provided via pdf, before the first class.
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OPPONENT — SCREENING & FILM TALK
2023-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
“A gripping story about masculinity and family values” (Collider) — join us for a special screening of the Swedish social thriller Opponent (Motståndaren, Sweden/Norway, 2022) with director Milad Alami on November 14! Returning this November and December, the Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders series features screenings of films chosen by the Nordic & Baltic countries to compete for the Oscar nomination for the Best International Feature Film, including this year’s candidate for Sweden. A film talk and Q&A with director Milad Alami will follow the screening.
In the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iranian wrestler Iman (Payman Maadi), his wife Maryam (Marall Nasiri), and their daughters Asal (Nicole Mehrbod) and Sahar (Diana Farzami) have been forced to flee Iran, leading them to a run-down hotel in northern Sweden where they live as refugees. Despite feeling powerless, Iman tries to maintain his role as the family patriarch, and to increase their chances of asylum, he breaks a promise to his wife and joins the local wrestling club in hopes of trying out for Sweden’s national team. But as old rumors start to resurface, Iman’s fear and desperation begin to take hold.
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SWEDISH ADVANCED BEGINNER 1
2023-11-14 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-11-16 18:10 - 19:10 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! In this course held in-person at Scandinavia House and offered remotely via Zoom, students will continue to perfect their previous learned skills and pronunciation, while also expanding into more complex sentence structure. Furthermore, the students will be asked to express their opinions or beliefs in simple discussions related to Swedish life within the themes studied. The students will be required to read a literary book over the course of the semester.
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GALLERY TOUR: NARRATIVE THREADS
2023-11-15 17:30 - 18:05 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On view from October 14, 2023 to February 17, 2024 at Scandinavia House, Narrative Threads presents multi-media artwork by eight Nordic artists, each distinguished by their innovative use of natural, synthetic, and digital materials. Exploring Nordic craft traditions through a contemporary lens, the works in the exhibition engage with material experimentation and digital technology; textile design, ceramics, stitching, painting, audio recording, and assemblage unleash diverse narrative expressions and perspectives. 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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GODLAND: SCREENING & FILM TALK WITH HLYNUR PÁLMASON
2023-11-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
“Absolutely breathtaking…both terrifying and beautiful” (Austin Chronicle) — join us for a special screening of the stunning psychological epic Godland (Iceland, 2022) with director Hlynur Pálmason on November 15! Returning this November and December, the Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders series features screenings of films chosen by the Nordic & Baltic countries to compete for the Oscar nomination for the Best International Feature Film, including this year’s candidate for Iceland. A film talk and Q&A with director Hlynur Pálmason will follow the screening.

Religion and brute animal nature battle one another amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote late 19th-century Iceland in this drama following Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), who makes the perilous trek to the nation’s southeastern coast with the intention of establishing a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested as he confronts the harsh terrain, temptations of the flesh, and the reality of being an intruder in an unforgiving land. What unfolds is a transfixing journey into the heart of colonial darkness attuned to both the majesty and terrifying power of the natural world.
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NORWEGIAN 4 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! Designed for intermediate learners who have taken Norwegian 3 or equivalent, this course continues to expand and refine your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, enabling grammatically correct conversations, and language structure. A stronger focus will be given to pronunciation, Norwegian structure, tone, and flow.
You will get the opportunity to hone in your knowledge of grammatical structures, thus engaging more confidently in conversations and discussions in class, expanding your vocabulary, and fine-tuning your listening skills. Students are actively encouraged to talk more in-depth about their own experiences in Norwegian.
There will also be weekly at-home assignments, and more, focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as a strongly recommend end-of-semester presentation. Students are strongly encouraged to watch and read Norwegian news, and articles, watch Norwegian shows and movies, and listen to podcasts and audio books, as often as possible, on a weekly basis at a minimum. These classes are conducted in Norwegian, with the occasional English word/sentence.
Please note that in order to take this course, you should be comfortable using the simple past tense and present perfect, and have knowledge of regular and irregular verbs, as well as their irregularities and rules. You should also be able to use indefinite, definite, and plural forms of masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns; conjugate adjectives; and apply intermediate Norwegian sentence structure, including “inversion.”
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GANGSPIL
2023-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
See a live performance with Gangspil, two of Denmark’s leading folk musicians, this November at Scandinavia House! Gangspil, featuring Sonnich Lydom on accordion and harmonica and Kristian Bugge on fiddle, performs old dance tunes and songs from every corner of their Scandinavian home country, from rural islands like Læsø to Copenhagen, including a few of their own compositions. Their lively performances include everything from wild polkas and jigs to lyrical waltzes, fiery reels and happy hopsas, as well as the exotic “Sønderhoning” dance tunes from the island of Fanø and long-forgotten songs from all over the country.
Having toured extensively with over 120 shows in North American since 2015, as the recipient of honors including the 2016 Tradition Award at the Danish Music Awards, Gangspil brings audiences on an entertaining and variated journey through Danish folk traditions alongside humor and stories from their years on the road.
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SWEDISH INTERMEDIATE 1
2023-11-16 19:20 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! In this course held online only, the focus will be primarily on conversation. Students will discuss various subjects brought up in each chapter via the informative texts, with topics spanning subjects such as Swedish cultural and social life, wild animals, historical figures, politics, and others. The grammar is overall a comprehensive repetition of the beginner levels, while also introducing a few new things like reflexive pronouns, the present participle and the conditional. Students will be required to read assigned books over the course of the semester. Intermediate 1 runs over three semesters and can be taken in any order.
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SOLD OUT: ROSE — SCREENING & DIRECTOR TALK
2023-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
*This event is now SOLD OUT.*
On November 17, see the moving new Danish drama Rose (France/Denmark, 2023), with a film talk and Q&A by director Niels Arden Oplev!
Rose is the story of two sisters, Inger (Sofia Gråbøl) and Ellen (Lena Maria Christensen), and how their relationship is challenged on a highly anticipated coach trip to Paris. In the late summer of 1997, Ellen and her husband Vagn (Andres W Berthelsen) arrive at an institution in Northern Denmark to pick up Ellen’s mentally ill sister Inger for a trip to France. When Inger announces her struggles with schizophrenia to their coach group, the sisters are faced with pity from some and discrimination from others; among those is the teacher Skelbæk (Søren Malling), who declares himself the champion of normality, and his young son Christian (Luca Reichardt Ben Coker), whose child’s curiosity and innocence leads him to develop a friendship with Inger that only grows fonder the closer they get to Paris.
On arrival, however, it soon becomes clear that Inger holds many secrets, including an ability to speak French fluently and rescue her group on several occasions, but also a hidden agenda concerning a figure from her past — Jacques (Jean-Pierre Lorit), her first love who left her when she was young. In the city where it all began, Inger separates from the guided tour and ultimately involves the entire group in her hunt for answers, leading to self-discovery, conflict, and reconciliation. Hailed as “refreshing…with fully fleshed out characters all of whom have their own journeys to undertake” (Eye for Film), Rose is a film about being able to love and care for each other in spite of our differences, and not judging a book by its cover.

ECHOES OF THE UNIVERSE: THE MUSIC OF KAIJA SAARIAHO
2023-11-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for a special screening of Echoes of the Universe (dir. Riitta Rask, Finland 2023), a documentary honoring the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, followed by a Q&A with Saariaho’s family, director Riita Rask and moderated by Richard Kessler, Executive Dean of the College of Performing Arts at the New School.
Echoes of the Universe is a tribute to the life and work of the beloved Finnish contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho, who passed away this summer in the fifth decade of her career. This intimate documentary traces Saariaho’s full life story, from her childhood in Helsinki, to her education at Finland’s Sibelius Academy and the Freiburg Conservatory of Music, to her esteemed career in Paris. Echoes of the Universe includes never-before-seen footage from several 2022 rehearsals of Saariaho’s masterpiece, Innocence, before its performance at the Finnish National Opera in October of that year. Innocence, the conductor’s harrowing work based on a school shooting that reverberates physically as well as sonically, premiered in summer 2021 at the Aix-en-Provence Festival to critical acclaim.
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