West Nordic Film Festival Organized in partnership with Scandinavia House(Opens an external site in a new window), the inaugural West Nordic Film Festival presents recent feature-length and short films from the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.

Schedule

Friday, March 14, 2025

7:00-9:00pm

SOLITUDE

Iceland | 2023

dir. Ninna Pálmadóttir

75 minutes

Following an order from the Icelandic government, farmer Gunnar is forced to sell his farm and move to the capital. Here he settles into a simple apartment, hangs a picture of his favorite horse on the wall, and struggles to find a foothold in a life marked by loneliness and homesickness. But in the apartment next door lives a ten-year-old boy who also doesn't have many friends. What starts as chance encounters soon develops into an unexpected and heartwarming friendship.

OMMAN / GRANDMOTHER

Faroe Islands | 2019

dir. Julia í Kálvalíð

12 minutes

Two brothers head up to the mountains to pick up their alcoholic grandmother who has gone on another drinking spree in her tent. Upon arrival, they realise that the grandmother has drunk herself to death. Ahead of them lies a disturbing journey home. Omman is directed by the Faroese director Julia í Kálvalíð, who has a wonderful talent for serving tragicomic stories about death, combining dark Nordic humor with sparks of color.

ENTROPY

Greenland | 2023

dir. Inuk Jørgensen

10 minutes

Inuk Jørgensens short film, the poetic and beautifully shot documentary Entropy, is an ode to Greenlandic mythologies and myths and at the same time deeply concerned about the nature we are all losing.

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Date: March 14 - 15, 2025