{"title": "Our Erika", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T20:55:00-05:00", "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/drama", "sport/cycling"], "description": "An evening screening of a film about the Estonian track bicyclist Erika Salumäe, with a talk by its director. Born in 1962, Salumäe grew up in orphanages and foster homes amid an abusive home life and the harsh sports system of the former Soviet Union, yet went on to smash world records and win numerous medals. Her ultimate triumph was the first Olympic gold medal for Estonia in 56 years after the country regained independence in 1991. Directed by German Golub, the film features Karolin Jürise as the determined, iron-willed athlete, showing how every nation needs a hero—even if it seldom asks what the hero needs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/our-erika-55703/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/our-erika-nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0cae28cc0472ab9b8f60a8d162f0371cec11cbc8c5037e7852a4eda5edced05f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T20:55:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Ulya", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T22:00:00-05:00", "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/biographical-drama", "sport/basketball"], "description": "An evening film screening with a talk, presenting the biopic Ulya about the legendary Latvian basketball player Uļjana Semjonova. Director Viesturs Kairišs joins for a film talk after the screening. Set in Soviet Latvia in 1964, the film follows teenager Ulya, whose height approaches two meters on her family's farm, until a coach whisks her away to Riga to play basketball. As she rises toward stardom, she must deal with others seeing her as a means to their own ends and choose what she really wants.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ulya-55699/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/ulya-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e25c695f50ceae0d721279c26e66fa6f7689ba5f00c31ace5f021a9941bfd5c-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": "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"}, {"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": "Small, Slow But Steady", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31312", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/sports-drama"], "description": "A sports drama based on the true story of boxer Ogasawara Keiko. Director Sho Miyake casts Kishii Yukino as Keiko, deaf from birth, whose young professional career and the boxing gym that is her second home are threatened by the pandemic. The film follows her self-worth and resolve as both face possible ruin. A Q&A with Sho Miyake follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/small-slow-but-steady-56706/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005078-small-slow-but-steady/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d9f8013bf33f9cb5b6130f416451006e36c140fc9f80b24777bcfaf35d96d6a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stolen Children", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Explorers Club", "address": "East 70th Street 46, 10021 New York", "price": "$20 for Members, $35 for the General Public", "price_from": "35.50", "price_to": "35.50", "tickets_url": "https://store.explorers.org/products/screening-stolen-children", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/crime"], "description": "An in-person screening of the new film Stolen Children, followed by a question-and-answer session with its makers. The film, directed by Explorers Club Fellow Martyna Wojciechowska and Jowita Baraniecka, follows a journalistic investigation into the disappearances of numerous children in Georgian hospitals throughout the 1990s. Wojciechowska, an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and explorer, will be present. The visit and presentation are organized and sponsored by Piotr Chmielinski, the first man to paddle the entire length of the Amazon River, with a beer and wine reception before the film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stolen-children-56563/", "official_url": "https://www.explorers.org/calendar-of-events/screening-stolen-children/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ce4f90e4739b889e2d905cf32ef303abf7a4c366f46accb96152ac0d33d01a9-600.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": "After Winter Comes Spring", "start": "2026-11-07T15:40:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31295", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "A documentary shot in luminous black-and-white that travels across the German Democratic Republic shortly before its end. Director Helke Misselwitz sets out by railway from her childhood town at the age of 40 to discover how others have lived and how they want to live. Along the way she converses with women of all ages—teenage runaways, a divorcée balancing factory work and caring for her disabled daughter, a great-grandmother admitting a mistaken marriage—who speak plainly of regret, longing, and hope. The film forms a group portrait of female East Germany, questioning the outgoing leadership's claims of advancing equality between the genders while looking anxiously toward the new world being born.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/after-winter-comes-spring-56705/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005071-after-winter-comes-spring/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb64faf3ced4be3742a9607b68dbe30b77aba9aa9488f82fdfbaf2a8f224c458-2000.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": "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"}]}