{"title": "Borderline", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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/thriller"], "description": "A screening of the thriller Borderline (Sienna), followed by a film talk and Q&A with lead actor Šarūnas Zenkevičius. The film is directed by Ignas Jonynas and stars Šarūnas Zenkevičius as Vilius, a 40-year-old ornithologist mourning his wife and raising his daughter Urte alone. After accidentally hitting a group of smugglers, Vilius is lured by high pay into using his car's bird-tracking GPS to track smuggled goods across the border instead of migrating birds—until a smuggler attacks Urte and leaves him in an impossible situation. Borderline won Best Baltic Film at the PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights) in 2025, and Zenkevičius received the European Shooting Star at Berlinale 2025 and Best Actor at Lithuania's Silver Crane Awards in 2026.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/borderline-55701/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/borderline-nybff/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/78560e0691c03c34d807889494fc60f1d867bfafb642bb9cd470ab4259dbbe96-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Adult Supervision", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T21:30:00-05:00", "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/comedy/black-comedy", "society/parenting"], "description": "An evening with a screening of the black comedy Adult Supervision, followed by a film talk and Q&A. Director Alex Shulman presents the thought-provoking film, Sweden's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards. It follows anxiety-ridden father Bill (Gustaf Skarsgard), who volunteers to chaperone his daughter and her school friends on a rowdy field trip to a remote island to repair their icy relationship, joined by fellow fathers Bobo (Fares Fares) and Pontus (Linus Wahlgren). As tensions escalate and buried memories resurface, games turn into power struggles — and power into violence — until no one can tell who is in charge and who is in danger.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/adult-supervision-55687/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/adult-supervision-nordic-baltic-oscar-contenders/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5781a5bf3e40f44608286b51637475ca7c0b8a50e69b85596966c17746c31866-2000.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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/baltic-shorts-nybff-55696/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/baltic-shorts-nybff-2026-2/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/d8d4fc5b7554b9c8402378db4304595483bb10d61e80998a25f055ab3a9a2fc3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Child", "start": "2026-11-08T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "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"], "description": "A screening of the Latvian drama The Child (Bērns), followed by a film talk and Q&A with director Linda Olte. The film follows Zane and Kaspars, a couple in their late 30s who seem to have it all—love, careers, a house and shared hobbies—but have been unable to have a child despite years of trying. Kaspars slowly comes to terms with the idea that life can be fulfilling without children, but for Zane, a former professional swimmer trained to win, not becoming a mother is unacceptable. As her 40s approach and she goes to grueling lengths to meet her target, the couple's relationship grows increasingly strained and Zane must question her role within her family and in society.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/the-child-55702/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-child-nybff/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/4eba6556ca641a5e5e1d6e067d31ff7868b10ba4913dc755be3cacdaa1a31dc0-2000.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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/scarecrows-55694/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/scarecrows-nybff-2026-2/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/671e3602aeb3e0a2fd959297c275c740d0e2710a27b1641fc1088f58efe20676-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fjord", "start": "2026-10-29T12:35:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=586352~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Fjord is a feature film screened in a cinema in downtown Manhattan. It was directed by two-time Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu and stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. It tells of a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband who move with their five children to a remote coastal town, where unease grows around their rigid beliefs until allegations of abuse force them to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/fjord-53158/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/fjord/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/154cb8c597450e488efa57042f0bc5d3c334d27682b1c6030ea08cde12095d5f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Goodnight Kiss", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "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", "history/holocaust"], "description": "An evening film screening with a talk, opening the New York Baltic Film Festival at Scandinavia House. It presents the East Coast premiere of A Goodnight Kiss (Irena), directed by Giedrė Žickytė, who will be present for a film talk and Q&A. The film is a portrait of Irena Veisaitė, one of Lithuania's wisest women, who survived the Nazi and Soviet occupations and believed in a life free of hatred. Set in Vilnius, it weaves in music by her lifelong friend, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/a-goodnight-kiss-55692/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/opening-night-a-goodnight-kiss-nybff/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5c054245e4484e10bc2a307bc85ccea776f9b7fb39220d90485a635a48e3d6fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Winter of the Crow", "start": "2026-10-29T12:05:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Quad Cinema", "address": "West 13th Street 34", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller/political-thriller"], "description": "Winter of the Crow is a Cold War thriller about a British professor visiting Poland in 1981 who is suddenly swept up in extraordinary and dangerous events at the onset of the country's Martial Law era. It is a film by Kasia Adamik, starring Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Lesley Manville alongside Tom Burke, Zofia Wichłacz and Andrzej Konopka. The film is a thrilling and immersive cat-and-mouse game, inspired by the short story by Booker Prize and Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/winter-of-the-crow-55094/", "official_url": "https://quadcinema.com/film/winter-of-the-crow/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/490d974205e2f5fbd913b4093750e301dbc9482d2b0e0993fb4d13255be39419-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Virgina", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "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=31177", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film by Srđan Karanović from 1991, running 102 minutes. When a fourth daughter is born to a family 'cursed' by superstition to bear no male heirs, the decision is made to raise the child with a boy's name—Stevan—as well as a man's rights and responsibilities, though as Stevan passes adolescence, first love and a brush with personal tragedy will spark rebellion in his breast. An acutely observed study of a 19th-century peasant culture steeped in misogyny, and a strikingly sensual story of self-discovery. The film has been newly restored in 2K from the negative, which the director had thought was lost in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/virgina-56651/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005047-virgina/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ab6052fb2c0b7cae35fdc234237b15582b55af90c10978cbe7f744b5cbbcc00e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother", "start": "2026-10-29T12:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Stuart Cinema & Cafe", "address": "West Street 79, 11222 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller"], "description": "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is a screening of a drama-thriller about a devoutly religious hitman, played by Mahershala Ali, who struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. Directed by Bassam Tariq, it follows the hitman as, after his wife dies, he makes a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children. He confronts the forces closing in around him and the beliefs threatening to unravel within. The cast also includes John Cho, Abubakr Ali, Laith Nakli, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone and Giancarlo Esposito.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/your-mother-your-mother-your-mother-56223/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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://go-gnocchi.app/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://go-gnocchi.app/images/f5d54fb04756c9c5b9e0ccd3bc1245ca2ad343993c6d25f90d27b99a5fe1efb9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BALTIC ANIMATED SHORTS | NYBFF", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:15:00-05:00", "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/animation"], "description": "BALTIC ANIMATED SHORTS | NYBFF is an evening of short animated films from the Baltic region. It is part of the 9th Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF), presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, which brings the best new films from the Baltic region to New York audiences. The program highlights unique and innovative animated works from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, including CLEANLINESS (Tīrība) by Andrejs Brīvulis, FACADE (Fassaad) by Elise Kruusel, FAMILY ALBUM (Šeimos albumas) by Emilija Juzeliūnaitė and KYIV CAKE (Kiievi tort) by Mykyta Lyskov.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/baltic-animated-shorts-nybff-55693/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/baltic-animated-shorts-nybff/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7304f84fab70d0b5389eab95404ca884835782d069b5c1c8c3717400839abafa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Bittersweet Life", "start": "2026-11-03T21:50:00-05:00", "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=31324", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller"], "description": "A neo-noir thriller about a mob enforcer with a record of loyal service who fights for his life after sparing his boss's straying mistress. It was directed by Kim Jee-woon and stars Lee Byung-hun and Shin Min-a. The action set pieces are choreographed for the widescreen with much panache, grounded by emotional stakes and real physical danger. Jang Young Gyu's score, a melange of samba, flamenco, solo cello, and electronic elements, won Best Music honors from the Busan Film Critics Association.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/a-bittersweet-life-56691/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005015-a-bittersweet-life/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/1ea22b9f0ce57ce4599529d8eaa01fae336e62fd9c5e819e4b5867dace0ef32a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fatherland", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Rose Cinemas", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 30, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$17 General Admission; $12 for members; a $2 handling fee per ticket will be added", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/59498", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/cold-war"], "description": "\"Fatherland\" is a new feature film set at the height of the Cold War. Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, it stars Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, and August Diehl. It follows the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika—an actress, writer, and rally driver—on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a divided Germany in ruins, from the Allied-occupied city of Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Hüller's performance is described as quietly grand and unforgettable.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/fatherland-51161/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/fatherland", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ff666b66ef95084e828e97ec565bde9042982bf89d52df77c39e22162272eb9c-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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/morten-55697/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/morten-nybff/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/745f4b5788d819ad71fcd2ed939f8354305190a82e33e84de56d02240d096c65-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Closure", "start": "2026-10-29T10:45:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=584428~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Closure is a film about Daniel, whose teenage son Chris is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw's turbulent Vistula River, prompting an all-consuming search. Armed with self-built boats, drones, and underwater cameras, Daniel relentlessly scours the river's depths. As months pass and his family struggles with the uncertainty of Chris's disappearance, he begins helping other families with missing loved ones find answers, and at times the closure that continues to elude him. The film was directed by Michal Marczak.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/closure-53124/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/closure/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7f73616d09f5c5e4c36ebe346b82cfaf8e2b4f76522bf304bafa5c58d5c8d2ad-2000.webp"}]}