{"title": "No Comment", "start": "2026-10-28T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-28T21:00:00-04:00", "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/comedy"], "description": "A screening of the political satire No Comment, called \"a sharp and entertaining satire with a biting edge.\" Norwegian director Petter Næss (Elling) takes aim at a political establishment willing to sacrifice morality and truth to hold on to power. As an election approaches, sitting Prime Minister Alma Solvik hopes to regain voters' trust after it is revealed that her husband Sondre made lucrative stock deals during her time in office, and with her spin doctor Karianne Moen she orchestrates a bold strategy to protect her and her party's reputation — whatever it takes. Næss and screenwriter Ståle Stein Berg drew inspiration from real-life political scandals, not least the stock trading scandal involving Norway's former Prime Minister.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/no-comment-55685/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/no-comment-new-nordic-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac3a09dbe6c4807895a2c28b59704c74c8b26766e27af6d437f5f8e8e10778cb-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-28T21:00:00-04:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Fjord", "start": "2026-10-31T10:45:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=586352~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Fjord is a feature film screened in a cinema in downtown Manhattan. It was directed by two-time Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu and stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. It tells of a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband who move with their five children to a remote coastal town, where unease grows around their rigid beliefs until allegations of abuse force them to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fjord-53158/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/fjord/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/154cb8c597450e488efa57042f0bc5d3c334d27682b1c6030ea08cde12095d5f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Show Trial", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Tank", "address": "West 36th Street 312", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thetanknyc.org/EventAvailability?EventId=148401", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/historical-drama", "society/politics"], "description": "Show Trial is a political satire staged as a piece of theater, part of a run that begins on October 15th. It was written by Laura Zlatos and directed by Tom Costello, presented by Breakneck Productions with a cast of nine performers. The story follows one woman standing alone against an oppressive regime, turning state propaganda into farce with choreographed confessions and scripted testimony. It draws on the real transcripts of the 1950 trial of Milada Horáková, a Czechoslovak dissident accused of treason by a regime that had already written the verdict, and asks about the choices we make when history belongs to the victors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/show-trial-56931/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fcf3ba204fea6e3d69b259902e92cd3ba27d759bfb95ce28612fdec6cd076f8b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Adult Supervision", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T21:30:00-05:00", "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/comedy/black-comedy", "society/parenting"], "description": "An evening with a screening of the black comedy Adult Supervision, followed by a film talk and Q&A. Director Alex Shulman presents the thought-provoking film, Sweden's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards. It follows anxiety-ridden father Bill (Gustaf Skarsgard), who volunteers to chaperone his daughter and her school friends on a rowdy field trip to a remote island to repair their icy relationship, joined by fellow fathers Bobo (Fares Fares) and Pontus (Linus Wahlgren). As tensions escalate and buried memories resurface, games turn into power struggles — and power into violence — until no one can tell who is in charge and who is in danger.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adult-supervision-55687/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/adult-supervision-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5781a5bf3e40f44608286b51637475ca7c0b8a50e69b85596966c17746c31866-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Ground Beneath Our Feet", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:30:00-05:00", "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/documentary"], "description": "Scandinavia House presents a screening of the documentary The Ground Beneath Our Feet, Iceland's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards, followed by a talk with director Yrsa Roca Fannberg. The film takes place inside Grund, Iceland's oldest retirement home in Reykjavik, and follows the rhythm of the seasons rather than the end of life. With warmth and sensitivity, it captures everyday moments — joys, quiet routines, small miracles, and simple interactions — celebrating the lives of the elders and life itself. A critic has praised its poetic eye for the small mysteries of everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-ground-beneath-our-feet-55689/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-ground-beneath-our-feet-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9e026559cddcefec60eaa639316413674fd60336b7f52b36b02260ec2660cf6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Growth of the Soil", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T21:30:00-05:00", "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", "literature/classics"], "description": "A film adaptation of Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning 1917 novel. Isak, a man without a past, seeks a place to settle and carves life from a barren stretch of land high above the tree line, until he meets Inger, a solitary woman shaped by resilience and quiet secrecy. Together they endure the elements and build a life and family as seasons turn, until time, hardship and desire reshape them. Director Hans Petter Moland, best known for his collaborations with Stellan Skarsgård, casts Herbert Nordrum as Isak and Asta Kamma August as Inger in this fervently realistic story of one man's battle with a rugged environment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/growth-of-the-soil-55705/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/growth-of-the-soil-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a1d3a0a3aadadce54f5adf7033aca59a20d45b2729868e436b513e42b5fe9f1-2000.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"}]}