About this Event
Moderating this event is award-winning actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.
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Please note, submitting an RSVP does not guarantee you entry to the event. Extra reservations will be taken to ensure a full audience. Entry to the event is first come, first serve.
This event is free to attend and all attendees will receive a copy of the Sentimental Value screenplay to be signed by the screenwriters after the Q&A.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.
ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at [email protected] by Feb. 4 to request.
Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.
For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact [email protected]
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Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father -- and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Joachim Trier is an Norwegian-Danish director and screenwriter whose six feature films haveall received widespread critical and box office acclaim. From the beginning of his career, hiswork has enjoyed global recognition, starting with his debut feature Reprise (2006), whichwon the Discovery Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. His second film, Oslo, August 31st (2011), has since attained cult status in several countries.
Four of Trier's films have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, three of them in the Main Competition, including Sentimental Value (2025), which was awarded the Grand Prix. The Worst Person in the World (2021) earned Renate Reinsve the Best Actress Award at Cannesand went on to receive two Academy Award nominations (Best International Feature andBest Original Screenplay), two BAFTA nominations (Best International Film and Best Actress), and was named Best Foreign Language Film by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Trier is the most-awarded director in the history of Norway's Amanda Awards, and four of hisfilms - including Sentimental Value - have been submitted as Norway's official Oscar entry. Sentimental Value marks his sixth collaboration with co-writer Eskil Vogt and his second with Reinsve. The film is on track to double the French admissions of The Worst Person in the World and is approaching its record-breaking success in Norway. It has already been selected for numerous major festivals, in addition to Cannes, such as Karlovy Vary, Telluride, San Sebastian, the New York Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival.
Eskil Vogt is an Oscar-nominated writer (The Worst Person in the World) and acknowledgedas one of the top screenwriters and directors in Scandinavia. He has a longstanding andclose collaboration with Joachim Trier, including the scripts for the features Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011), Louder Than Bombs (2015), Thelma (2017), The Worst Person inthe World (2021), and Sentimental Value (2025). His directing debut Blind premiered at Sundance in 2014 where it won him the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. His sophomore feature as a writer/director, The Innocents, premiered at Cannes in 2021 to great acclaim before going on to win more than 20 international awards. Vogt is a directing graduate from La Femis in Paris, the national French film school.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States
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