{"id":3411,"date":"2016-04-04T17:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&p=3411"},"modified":"2016-04-06T20:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:03:21","slug":"fencer-nordic-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/fencer-nordic-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fencer\/ Nordic Film Festival."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fencer<\/h2>\n

Klaus H\u00e4r\u00f6\/ FIN\/2015 \/ 93 min\/ Drama \/ 15 years<\/h4>\n

Touching drama about love and a man who finds meaning in his life through children who need him. The Fencer was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar \/ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950s. Having left Leningrad to escape the secret police, he finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students. Endel becomes a father figure to his students and starts teaching them his great passion \u2013 fencing, which causes a conflict with the school\u2019s principal. Envious, the principal starts investigating Endel\u2019s background\u2026<\/p>\n

Endel learns to love the children and looks after them; most are orphans as a result of the Russian occupation. Fencing becomes a form of self-expression for the children and Endel becomes a role model. The children want to participate in a national fencing tournament in Leningrad, and Endel must make a choice: risk everything to take the children to Leningrad or put his safety first and disappoint them.<\/p>\n

Language: Estonian\/\u00a0Subtitle: English<\/p>\n

Reserve free tickets:<\/strong> www.tix.is\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0If the screening is not fully booked, tickets will be available at the door.<\/p>\n

Trailer:\u00a0http:\/\/thefencermovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nordic Film Festival<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Nordic Film Festival is a yearly event, and this is the fourth edition at the Nordic House in Reykjavik. The festival runs the period 13th \u2013 20th April 2016 and we screen selected Nordic films in all genres, with English subtitles. \u00a0The Nordic Film Festival is a collaboration between the Nordic House, Embassy of Denmark, Finnish Embassy, Norwegian Embassy and Embassy of Sweden in Reykjavik, Iceland. Local partners are Aalto Bistro and Bio Paradis.<\/p>\n

\"fencer\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fencer Klaus H\u00e4r\u00f6\/ FIN\/2015 \/ 93 min\/ Drama \/ 15 years Touching drama about love and a man who finds meaning in his life through children who need him. The Fencer was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar \/ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3309,"template":"","event-categories":[86],"class_list":["post-3411","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-films","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}