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West Nordic Film Days returns October 9-11 at Scandinavia House! A celebration of cinema from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, this annual film festival returns with selections curated by Birgir Thor Møller.The early evening screening on October 10 at 5 PM will feature screenings of the Faroese feature film Dreams by the Sea (Dreymar við havið, dir. Sakaris Stórá, 2017), followed by the Icelandic short film Dögun (Dawn, 2012, dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson) and the Greenlandic short film The Last Grass Seamstress (Ivikkisartoq Kingulleq, dir. Julia í Kálvalíð, 2024).
𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 — 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗮, 𝗗𝗮𝘄𝗻, 𝗜𝘃𝗶𝗸𝗸𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗾 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗾
Dreams by the Sea / Dreymar við havið
Dir. Sakaris Stórá, Faroe Islands, 2017 | 80 min.
In Faroese with English subtitles
Sixteen-year-old Ester lives a safe and somewhat monotonous life with her religious, conservative parents in a small, isolated village in the Faroe Islands. One day at Sunday school, she meets Ragna, a city girl who has just moved to the village with her mother and eight-year-old younger brother. In Ragna, Ester sees everything she has been searching for all her life. Although they are opposites, they become close friends and dream together of escaping their dull everyday lives. Over the course of the summer, however, they also realize that life is far more complex than that. Dreams by the Sea is a poetic, beautiful and thoughtful coming-of-age film from 2017, directed by Sakaris Stórá, who went on to receive the Nordic Council Film Prize last year for his second feature film, The Last Paradise on Earth (2025).
Dögun / Dawn
Dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson (short fiction), Iceland, 2012 | 4 min
In Icelandic with English subtitles
Dawn is a very brief, yet intense short film depicting a father and his young child who simultaneously wake up in the dead of night, deeply shaken after experiencing a terrifying, shared bad dream. Nine years before making his feature-length breakthrough, the surreal horror hit Lamb (2021), the Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson created this minimal, atmosphere-driven short piece exploring subconscious terror.
Ivikkisartoq Kingulleq / The Last Grass Seamstress
Dir. Arina Kleist, Greenland (short doc), Greenland, 2024 | 18 min.
In Kalaallisut with English subtitles
The film follows and portrays the 82-year-old Marie Josefsen, an Inuk from South Greenland, who is the last surviving specialist of the traditional craft of grass sewing. The award-winning Greenlandic short documentary is directed by the very talented new comer Arina Kleist.
𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗖 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦
Join us this fall for the festival West Nordic Film Days, a celebration of cinema from Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands! The annual festival returns with selections curated by Birgir Thor Møller, including a range of acclaimed recent feature films, documentaries and shorts. All screenings take place in Victor Borge Hall from October 9-11 with English subtitles.
See the full lineup here:
https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/films/west-nordic-film-days-2026/
𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧𝗦
Tickets $13 ($8 ASF Members)
Festival Pass $40 ($30 ASF Members)
https://www.goelevent.com/ScandinaviaHouse/Pass/Sale
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