{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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"}, {"title": "The Baby Decision and Beyond", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "Culture Lab LIC", "address": "5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA", "price": "Sliding scale: $10-$30", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.humanitix.com/the-baby-decision-and-beyond/tickets?dateId=6ac532d15301a45d5cad3162", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/family"], "description": "A workshop for people weighing whether to have a baby or looking for other ways to structure family in an insecure world. It is hosted by Culture Lab LIC and features journalist and author Anna Louie Sussman and Chosen Family Law Center founder Diana Adams, moderated by Gillian Morris, co-author of the blog Supernuclear. The session includes a panel discussion, small group conversations, and food and non-alcoholic beverages on arrival. Half of the proceeds go to the Chosen Family Law Center.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-baby-decision-and-beyond-52236/", "official_url": "https://events.humanitix.com/the-baby-decision-and-beyond", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94337c5a679326a86d8b7e22d0aeb2e138f92cb7d98cf5428eec9b5334e939de-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": "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": "Borderline", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "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/thriller"], "description": "A screening of the thriller Borderline (Sienna), followed by a film talk and Q&A with lead actor Šarūnas Zenkevičius. The film is directed by Ignas Jonynas and stars Šarūnas Zenkevičius as Vilius, a 40-year-old ornithologist mourning his wife and raising his daughter Urte alone. After accidentally hitting a group of smugglers, Vilius is lured by high pay into using his car's bird-tracking GPS to track smuggled goods across the border instead of migrating birds—until a smuggler attacks Urte and leaves him in an impossible situation. Borderline won Best Baltic Film at the PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights) in 2025, and Zenkevičius received the European Shooting Star at Berlinale 2025 and Best Actor at Lithuania's Silver Crane Awards in 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/borderline-55701/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/borderline-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/78560e0691c03c34d807889494fc60f1d867bfafb642bb9cd470ab4259dbbe96-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Papa Melissa", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.fandango.com/cinema-village-aaefn/theater-page?format=all&date=2026-10-23", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening at a Greenwich Village cinema. Director Sophia Stieglitz follows Melissa and Claudia, a Mexico City couple with five children, as the family navigates Melissa's gender identity journey through laughter, conflict, and unconditional love, challenging binary thinking. The film stars Servio Tulio Cruzmanjarrez, known as Madam Melissa Hakerman, alongside Kathleen Claudia Cruzmanjarrez and other family members.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/papa-melissa-66270/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ae513068de7f3abf1b4fe598e41aaf7b288b4ff7f24a4ebe927537fc73c61ff-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Virgina", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "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=31177", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film by Srđan Karanović from 1991, running 102 minutes. When a fourth daughter is born to a family 'cursed' by superstition to bear no male heirs, the decision is made to raise the child with a boy's name—Stevan—as well as a man's rights and responsibilities, though as Stevan passes adolescence, first love and a brush with personal tragedy will spark rebellion in his breast. An acutely observed study of a 19th-century peasant culture steeped in misogyny, and a strikingly sensual story of self-discovery. The film has been newly restored in 2K from the negative, which the director had thought was lost in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/virgina-56651/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005047-virgina/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab6052fb2c0b7cae35fdc234237b15582b55af90c10978cbe7f744b5cbbcc00e-2000.webp"}]}