{"title": "BALTIC SHORTS | NYBFF", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:15:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "\"BALTIC SHORTS | NYBFF\" is a program of live-action short films from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, shown as part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF). The festival is presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, which brings the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences. The shorts program includes PORTRAIT OF GRANNY (Omamma) by Ieva Ozoliņa, about her 88-year-old grandmother Aina's light-hearted outlook on life despite health concerns; CONCRETE KIDS (Betono vaikai) by Saulius Baradinskas, about kids who grew up in the courtyards of Lithuania's Soviet apartment districts and had to survive street violence without their parents' love; MY FIRST FUNERAL (Manas pirmās bēres) by Līva Klepere, in which eight-year-old Mare finds a funeral incomprehensible and takes refuge with the relative's dog; A MICROPHONE IN THE HEAD (Mikrofon peas) by Robert Raska, in which a dead man contacts his fiancée through a haunted karaoke microphone to deliver a final message; and SIGNAL PATH (Signalo kelias) by Eglė Razumaitė, about Liepa and her daughter moving to Germany for a fresh start while facing family disapproval and metropolitan challenges, a film the director says highlights the shift in the sex industry and asks how to redefine prostitution on screen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/baltic-shorts-nybff-55696/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/baltic-shorts-nybff-2026-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8d4fc5b7554b9c8402378db4304595483bb10d61e80998a25f055ab3a9a2fc3-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:15:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "BALTIC ANIMATED SHORTS | NYBFF", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:15:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "BALTIC ANIMATED SHORTS | NYBFF is an evening of short animated films from the Baltic region. It is part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF), presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, which brings the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences. The program highlights unique and innovative animated works from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, including CLEANLINESS (Tīrība) by Andrejs Brīvulis, FACADE (Fassaad) by Elise Kruusel, FAMILY ALBUM (Šeimos albumas) by Emilija Juzeliūnaitė and KYIV CAKE (Kiievi tort) by Mykyta Lyskov.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/baltic-animated-shorts-nybff-55693/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/baltic-animated-shorts-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7304f84fab70d0b5389eab95404ca884835782d069b5c1c8c3717400839abafa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THE 2026 NEW YORK BALTIC FILM FESTIVAL", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "In-Person Passes $105/$75 ASF Members (regular $125/$95); VIP Passes $405 (regular $425)", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film", "history"], "description": "The 2026 New York Baltic Film Festival is the leading festival of new films from the Baltic region in the United States. It is presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, where in-person screenings, filmmaker Q&As and receptions are held. This year's lineup, curated by ASF Program Manager Kyle Reinhart, brings Baltic stories about attaining dreams and enacting change in the face of great challenges. The films explore personal subjects such as family life and coming of age, as well as political history from the Soviet occupation to the present, putting a deeply human perspective on perseverance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-2026-new-york-baltic-film-festival-55690/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a5088c74ac0a88c2a22510d21151e9f24da0271a45f84016b7e6cb1cc6f5e3e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Morten", "start": "2026-11-07T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "MORTEN | NYBFF is a film screening with a talk and Q&A with director Ivan Pavljutškov, presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. It shows Ivan Pavljutskov's Morten, a coming-of-age film set between reality and the mystical in the Estonian countryside, part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival. Fifteen-year-old Morten lives with his uncle and a one-eyed cat in an abandoned forest village, hiding his life from classmates until two people show interest in him. Based on Reeli Reinaus' novel, the film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2026 and won three awards at Italy's Giffoni Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/morten-55697/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/morten-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/745f4b5788d819ad71fcd2ed939f8354305190a82e33e84de56d02240d096c65-2000.webp"}, {"title": "My Family and Other Clowns", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T13:50:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["stage/theatre/clowning", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening with a talk and Q&A, part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. 'My Family and Other Clowns' (Minu pere ja muud klounid), directed by Heilika Pikkov and Liina Särkinen, follows Haide and Toomas, a married couple with three children in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in a Tallinn suburb who are famous clowns known as Piip and Tuut, with one of their kids autistic. After 25 years entertaining thousands of children while their own kids grow up on their own, they reach a breaking point and must decide whether to keep juggling family and stage lives or give up their dream to save their family. Co-Director Liina Särkinen will be present for a film talk and Q&A; the film won the Special Jury Prize at the Doc@PÖFF Baltic Competition, Tallinn Black Nights, and the Cultural Endowment of Estonia's Annual Prize for Best Documentary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/my-family-and-other-clowns-55700/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/my-family-clowns-nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d54fb04756c9c5b9e0ccd3bc1245ca2ad343993c6d25f90d27b99a5fe1efb9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Goodnight Kiss", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "An evening film screening with a talk, opening the New York Baltic Film Festival at Scandinavia House. It presents the East Coast premiere of A Goodnight Kiss (Irena), directed by Giedrė Žickytė, who will be present for a film talk and Q&A. The film is a portrait of Irena Veisaitė, one of Lithuania's wisest women, who survived the Nazi and Soviet occupations and believed in a life free of hatred. Set in Vilnius, it weaves in music by her lifelong friend, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-goodnight-kiss-55692/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/opening-night-a-goodnight-kiss-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c054245e4484e10bc2a307bc85ccea776f9b7fb39220d90485a635a48e3d6fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La Merde! 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Bouvy's film follows an anthropomorphic excrement figure through everyday situations of discipline, rejection, and invisibility, combining grotesque humor and tenderness to examine shame as a social construct.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-merde-the-mole-52437/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783399/la-merde-the-mole-nbsp/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/671c6cfd380bb62ddc1ec1cc68e2448a288399bf17ce8b5919319c0f455bb9f7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Holy Destructors", "start": "2026-11-07T17:45:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T19:35:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["science/biology/microbiology", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary film Holy Destructors (Biodestruktoriai), followed by a film talk and Q&A with film composer Gediminas Jakubka. It is directed by Aistė Žegulytė and is part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America. The documentary delves into the invisible world of organisms that emerge during the decay of organic matter: biodestructors, microfungi that existed millions of years before humans and will likely outlive us, transforming bodies into energy that nourishes the soil and gives rise to new life. Blending archival and new footage with shots of growing fungi, the film takes viewers on an enigmatic journey through a microscope lens, where humans fight against time by preserving images, bodies, and memories; it won Best Directing at IDFA (2025), Best Baltic Documentary Film at Tallinn Black Nights (2025), and Best Documentary at Lithuania's Silver Crane Awards (2026).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/holy-destructors-55698/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/holy-destructors-nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b2049dbbfb0992dc43057365766dff7ad83631ba2bbf61c8fdb9847ac4846df8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NEW YORK SHORT FILM FESTIVAL AUTUMN 2026", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.cinemavillage.com/showtimes/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "The New York Short Film Festival Autumn 2026 is a festival for short films, the city's largest, showing short filmmaking from around the world. It runs annually at Cinema Village in downtown Manhattan and celebrates independent films and filmmakers who push the boundaries of storytelling in the short format. The festival brings together creators, industry professionals, and film enthusiasts to experience narratives, techniques, and voices in contemporary cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-york-short-film-festival-autumn-2026-51949/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7f030998a8ebb102eef361245a77bc1eceea43e1f7a11daafce08668ad53a478-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Child", "start": "2026-11-08T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the Latvian drama The Child (Bērns), followed by a film talk and Q&A with director Linda Olte. The film follows Zane and Kaspars, a couple in their late 30s who seem to have it all—love, careers, a house and shared hobbies—but have been unable to have a child despite years of trying. Kaspars slowly comes to terms with the idea that life can be fulfilling without children, but for Zane, a former professional swimmer trained to win, not becoming a mother is unacceptable. As her 40s approach and she goes to grueling lengths to meet her target, the couple's relationship grows increasingly strained and Zane must question her role within her family and in society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-child-55702/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-child-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4eba6556ca641a5e5e1d6e067d31ff7868b10ba4913dc755be3cacdaa1a31dc0-2000.webp"}]}