National Nordic Museum to present the SEA- Nordic Film Festival this month

Meghan Walker Ballard

The National Nordic Museum is organizing a three-day film festival featuring Nordic filmmakers at Majestic Bay Theater in mid-September.

The National Nordic Museum says shared the following highlights:

  • The porous lines between individual and collective traumas are explored in the powerful debut feature Sister, What Grows Where Land is Sick by the young Norwegian filmmaker and climate activist Francisca Eliassen.  
  • The documentary Twice Colonized from Greenland about the renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter.
  • The award winning Godland by Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.
  • The remarkable The Gullspång Miracle, where childhood experiences and family relations are reexamined in touching, humoristic and bizarre ways.

The festival, happening Sept. 13-15, was guest curated by Silja Espolin Johnson, a film curator and head of Kunstnernes Hus Cinema (The Artists’ House) in Oslo, Norway. Kunstnernes Hus is a major center for Norwegian and international contemporary art.

There will be total of 18 films in the festival, all at Majestic Bay. Here is the line-up, and tickets are available online.

Photo: Majestic Bay Theater