NORDIC FILM FOCUS 2023

13.01.2023 - 14.01.2023

Auditorium

Free entry

NORDIC FILM FOCUS

The film days Nordic Film Focus will be held in collaboration with Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival during 13th-15th January. Nordic Film Focus is an annual collaboration between The Nordic House and the Nordic embassies in Iceland.

The program in The Nordic House puts focus on Nordic female film directors and darkness and horror as a topic. Newly, Nordic films will be screened and a discussion will be facilitated with the directors and other representatives of the films.

The screenings and all events are free of cost. No tickets needed.

Program:
Friday 13th. January

16:00
Mellanrumsfruar
Country: Svíþjóð
Director: Lisa Fjellman, Anna Lönn Franko
Writer: Lisa Fjellman, Anna Lönn Franko
Actors: Pauline Bengtsson, Karin Bertling, Aksel Boss
Year: 2020
Length: 79 min

18:30
Networking Party + SISTER Award ceremony for best short films

Hosted by The Nordic House in Reykjavík and The Nordic embassies in Iceland. Short talks by hosts and guests of the Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival and Nordic Film Focus.

20:00
SISTER – Award screening
72:12 min

21:30
Kød og Blod
Country: Danmörk
Director: Jeanette Nordahl
Writer: Ingeborg Topsøe
Actors: Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Joachim Fjelstrup
Year: 2020
Length: 90 min

Saturday 14th. January
13:00
Lucile H. Retrospective :

De Natura 6mín
Nectar 18 min

13:30
Nordic Short Films#1:

Two Bodies on a Beach
Country: Finland
Director: Anna Paavilainen
Writers: Anna Paavilainen, Laura Birn
Actors: Laura Birn, Rea Mauranen, Tommi Korpela, Lauri Tilkanen, Lauri Maijala
Year: 2019
Length: 20 min

Updated
Country: Grænland
Director: Nivi Pedersen
Writer: Jørgen Chemnitz, Ulannaq Ingemann, Nivi Pedersen
Actors: Connie Arenas, Ujarneq Fleischer, Vivi Nielsen
Year: 2020
Length: 17 min

Tuullik
Country: Grænland
Director: Berda Larsen
Writer: Laura Lennert Jensen, Berda Larsen
Actor: Rosa Flügge, Pilunnguaq Henningsen, Heidi Møller Isaksen
Year: 2021
Length: 12 min

Sálarkvøl
Country: Færeyjar
Director: Eir í Ólavsstovu
Year: 2021
Length: 29 min

15:00 – 16:00
Panel Discussion
“The Representation of Women and the LGBTQ+ community in Film and Television”

Panelists

Dóra Jóhannsdóttir – Ísland
Arna Magnea Danks – Ísland
Berda Larsen – Grænland
Eir í Ólavsstovu – Færeyjar
Helene Aalborg – Norway

17:15
Journey to Our Likeness – Documentary

Q&A with the director of the DOC – Loide Nantinda from Namibia

19:00
Hope
Country: Noregur
Director: Maria Sødahl
Writer: Maria Sødahl
Actors: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Elli Rhiannon Osborne
Year: 2019
Length: 130 mín

Sunday 15th. January
12:30
“GUÐRÚN”
Icelandic Short Films:
Börn Kvótakerfisins
Díflissudúfa
Frenjan
Before Dawn
Móðir
Dóttir
84 min + Q&A 20min

14:30
Glerbrot
Country: Ísland
Director Kristín Jóhannesdóttir
Writers: Kristín Jóhannesdóttir, Matthías Johannessen
Actors Björn Baldvinsson, Björk, Pétur Einarsson
Year: 1988
Length: 50 min