{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Scarecrows", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:20:00-05:00", "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", "nature"], "description": "A screening of the documentary Scarecrows (Putnubiedēkļi), a visually composed tale of 'runway rangers' and their encounters with beings of nature. Director Laila Pakalniņa will be present for a film talk and Q&A. The film follows the bird and wildlife control specialists of Riga International Airport—nicknamed 'Scarecrows'—who guide viewers across four seasons in Latvia through a chronicle of the flow of work and nature. The airport is a paradoxical environment where different species cross paths, and fences built for humans cannot protect the lives of everyone and every kind.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/scarecrows-55694/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/scarecrows-nybff-2026-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/671e3602aeb3e0a2fd959297c275c740d0e2710a27b1641fc1088f58efe20676-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beloved", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00-05:00", "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/romance"], "description": "A screening of the drama Beloved, accompanied by a film talk, wrapping up the Films From the Fjords series. Directed by Norwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe and based on the only original screenplay by Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse, the film follows Asle and Gerd, who find each other in a tavern in a small coastal town and build a seemingly-idyllic life with their son in the crook of the fjord. Their love is put to the test when Asle, a sailor, is drawn by the call of the sea, leaving Gerd alone with the child as distance grows between them. Told through silence, glances and landscape, it asks how much distance love can endure before it breaks.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beloved-55707/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/beloved-films-from-the-fjords/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7e684f6767236366da5d4ab7a4bc4e8fc046f3cf0efc9767f502f0bd6cb14f3-2000.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": "News from Home + Interior NY Subway, 14th Street", "start": "2026-11-01T17:45:00-05:00", "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=31229", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A double bill of two films shown together: Chantal Akerman's 'News from Home' and G. W. \"Billy\" Bitzer's 'Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street'. Made when Akerman was 26 and living in New York, away from her native Belgium and her mother, 'News from Home' pairs images filmed with Babette Mangolte in subway stations and on street corners with Akerman's recitals of her mother's fretful letters, and is considered one of the greatest portraits of a city ever put on film and a troubling, touching depiction of maternal love. Bitzer's short from 1905 runs 6 minutes, while Akerman's 1976 film runs 85 minutes in its English-language version. The screening is introduced by series curator Genevieve Yue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street-56679/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005065-news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0e387220b790665e9991ac12f62f9415157faaa56150001151cc2752699a0dc-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": "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": "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": "With an Acre — An Afternoon with the CCA", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/with-an-acre-an-afternoon-with-the-cca-tickets-2003930941390?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/architecture", "film/documentary"], "description": "An afternoon of film and conversation hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, returning to the e-flux Screening Room. It features a screening of With an Acre, the third chapter in the Groundwork series conceived and produced by the CCA, which follows the conceptual development and field research of architects exploring alternative modes of practice in an age of ecological crisis. The film, introduced by Joshua Frank, follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum and community space in solidarity with a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais, Brazil, resisting extractive industrial agriculture. A conversation with Lukas Brasiskis, Nick Axel, Francesco Garutti, and Ella den Elzen follows, exploring the use of film as a tool for curatorial research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/with-an-acre-an-afternoon-with-the-cca-52438/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783401/with-an-acre-mdash-an-afternoon-with-the-cca/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49d720f1703c7fecd010bef0a6a84282bfeb94fa959a1ea1757b6233c0397f8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Here, Already", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/here-already-tickets-2003581975624?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Here, Already\" is a screening of three films by Salad Hilowle, Ahmed Umar, and Samira Elagoz with Z Walsh, guest-curated by Power Ekroth and followed by a discussion between Ekroth, Elagoz, and Walsh. The films explore love in different forms, from desire hidden in plain sight to intimacy across continents, with music playing an important role in each. Hilowle's \"Passion of Remembrance\" uses 1990s Swedish pop, television, and archival footage to reveal how Black artists were celebrated for their contributions to popular culture while treated as outsiders due to xenophobia. Umar's \"Truth Bears No Scandal\" brings hidden queer love stories within well-known Sudanese songs to the fore, while Elagoz and Walsh's \"You can't get what you want but you can get me\" documents their own love story across continents through a year of photographs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-already-52439/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783397/here-already/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8494b80775001b38602e02f60e9cb7c7c56d4c3128fcc35cedd3d2fc5d4a110-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Radical Thread", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/environmentalism"], "description": "A screening of the film A Radical Thread, followed by a conversation between filmmaker Jeanne C. Finley and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The film tells of a back-to-the-land community on California's San Juan Ridge, founded in the late 1960s as an alternative to American consumer culture, which organized against clear-cutting, river damming, and open-pit gold mining. It tells this story through an 83-foot tapestry created over seventeen years by Marsha Stone and a collective of artists and community members, weaving in archival footage of poet Gary Snyder and reflections from Nisenan spokesperson Shelly Covert. Afterward, the two filmmakers discuss collaborative storytelling, art and environmental activism, and collective memory in the face of ecological change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-radical-thread-57168/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/a-radical-thread-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f1334d0b6b4ddc016b9b2e1d13371190520e9ee84632cd22a7b59f10d99b8a1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Screening of the Just Beginning Pilot Film & Live Q&A", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T18:45:00-05:00", "place": "Union Theological Seminary", "address": "10027 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/aging"], "description": "A screening of the Just Beginning pilot film followed by a live Q&A conversation. It is presented by Union Theological Seminary's Encore Transition Program, the NYC Department for the Aging, and The Just Beginning Project. The event explores retirement, purpose, reinvention, and what comes next, highlighting stories of people redefining how to begin a new chapter with intention, creativity, and impact. Admission is free, but registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/screening-of-the-just-beginning-pilot-film-live-qa-57270/", "official_url": "https://utsnyc.edu/blog/event/screening-of-the-just-beginning-pilot-film-live-qa/?instance_id=4272", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b6dded1af6d015d0d3c01dfb5233e4255314d83c9990959c82398b009d488d9f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "No Country For Mothers", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Riverhead Neighborhood House", "address": "Mosholu Avenue 5521, 10471", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/family", "film"], "description": "A screening of \"No Country for Mothers\" followed by a moderated discussion and reception. The evening invites people to come together and talk openly about motherhood, family life, and the systems that shape them. Riverdale Neighborhood House hosts the event, and everyone is welcome. Limited seats are available, and an RSVP is highly encouraged.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/no-country-for-mothers-55403/", "official_url": "https://www.riverdaleonline.org/rnhcalendar/no-country-for-mothers-screening", "image": "https://noky.io/images/176196f250b72165a85ec340f17738831f32ab8be9e617497a59307aac5fd3b4-1200.webp"}]}