Nordic Tales

Nordic Tales

Our new selection of films from Scandinavia and Iceland.

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Nordic Tales
  • Abba Forever: The Winner Takes It All

    Directed by Chris Hunt • Documentary • With Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad • 2019 • 51 minutes

    It's been 50 years since Abba's founders met, 40 since their last concert, and 20 since Mama Mia! became a worldwide phenomena. This multi-Gold Award-winning doc t...

  • The Dialogue Police

    Directed by Susanna Edwards • Documentary • 2025 • 90 minutes

    Anti-vaccine demonstrators. Extinction rebellion activists blocking a downtown intersection. Opposing factions yelling at each other outside a Stockholm courthouse. An anti-Muslim neo-fascist agitator.

    In Sweden, all these people hav...

  • Terribly Happy

    Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz • Drama • With Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia • 2010 • 104 minutes

    Robert Hanson (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated M...

  • Winter Brothers

    Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • Drama • With Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne • 2017 • 94 minutes

    An odyssey set in a rural chalk-mining community during a cold winter. We follow two brothers working in this harsh environment focusing on the younger one, Emil, who distills ...

  • Neon Heart

    Directed by Laurits Flensted-Jensen • Drama • With Vic Carmen Sonne, Karen Sigrid Arild Albrechtsen, Nicklas Svale Andersen • 2018 • 86 minutes

    Laura and Niklas are handicap helpers. She was in porn and he in detox. Laura tries to speak with her ex, Niklas. Niklas tries to speak with his teen br...

  • Alena

    Directed by Daniel di Grado • Drama • With Amalia Holm, Molly Nutley, Felice Jankell • 2017 • 83 minutes

    With a traumatic event in her recent past, Alena transfers to a posh private all-girls school where her decidedly lower class roots makes her an outsider. While a gang of mean rich girls are ...

  • Ella's Riot - Rahčan

    Directed by Anne Marthe Blindheim • Documentary • 2023 • 72 minutes

    Sami singer Ella is torn between her strong ties to her hometown in Finnmark and her new life in Oslo with her boyfriend and a successful career with her band ISÁK. But when a mining company threatens Sami land and water, she de...

  • Nice People

    Directed by Karin af Klintberg, Anders Helgeson • Documentary • 2015 • 90 minutes

    The teams' players don't live in Somalia any longer. They have immigrated to a small town in Sweden. None of the players have ever been on ice. The championship in Siberia starts in 6 months. Someone has clearly be...

  • The Danish Poet

    Directed by Torill Kove • Animation • With Liv Ullmann • 2006 • 14 minutes

    This Oscar®-winning short animation follows Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet the famous writer Sigrid Undset. Kasper attempts to answer some pretty big questions: can we trace...

  • You Will Be Swedish, My Daughter

    Directed by Claire Billet, Olivier Jobard • Documentary • 2018 • 58 minutes

    A Syrian refugee couple, Ahmad and Jihane, tell the story of their exile to Sweden to their youngest daughter, Sally. They recount their journey as migrants being smuggled across borders, evoke memories of their beloved ...

  • Holiday

    Directed by Isabella Eklöf • Drama • With Vic Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde • 2018 • 85 minutes

    The trophy girlfriend leaves the sidelines to take center stage in a story that looks sun-kissed, fun, and sexy until the tables are turned—much like its central character.

    Young and beautiful Sascha discove...

  • Concrete Night (Pirjo Honkasalo)

    Directed by Pirjo Honkasalo • Drama • With Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman • 2013 • 97 minutes

    A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable 14-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarc...

  • Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process

    Directed by Jacob Jørgensen & Henrik Lundø • Documentary • 2010 • 77 minutes

    From the huge golden sun of The Weather Project at the Tate Modern until last year's New York Waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson has managed to rattle audiences and art critics alike.

    Filmmakers Henrik Lundø and Jacob Jørgens...

  • Until the Light Takes Us

    Directed by Aaron Aites & Audrey Ewell • Documentary • With Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell, Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes, Harmony Korine • 2010 • 93 minutes

    Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in...

  • Benny's Bathtub

    Movie

    A psychedelic Danish animated kids' film in which a young boy, bored with the dreary Adult World, follows an enchanted tadpole into his bathtub where he discovers a surreal and musical undersea world populated by singing Mermaids, a funky hepcat Octopus and whiskey-drinking Skeleton Pirates. In t...

  • Time Of Roses

    Directed by Risto Jarva • Drama • With Arto Tuominen, Ritva Vepsä • 1969 • 105 minutes

    Finnish director Risto Jarva's futuristic, Pop Art-influenced sci-fi mystery follows a historian of late 20th century culture who becomes fascinated with the enigmatic death of a free-spirited erotic model dec...

  • Becoming Astrid

    Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen • Drama • With Alba August • 2018 • 123 minutes

    Teenaged Astrid Lindgren (Alba August), who later went on to write the Pippi Longstocking series, leads a carefree life with her family in the forests and fields of rural Sweden. Restless and eager to break ...

  • The Seer and the Unseen

    Directed by Sara Dosa • Documentary • With Ragnhildur Jonsdottir • 2019 • 89 minutes

    THE SEER & THE UNSEEN is a magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic grandmother who speaks on behalf of nature unde...

  • When I Was Dead

    Directed by Maasja OomsIngrid Wender • Documentary • 2011 • 59 minutes

    Getting a complete overview of all the important moments in your life in a single moment; experiencing an indescribable lightness and getting a complete overview of all the important moments in your life in a single moment; e...

  • Creating Paradise

    Documentary • 2023 • 67 minutes

    'The ultimate goal of an architect is to create a paradise', Alvar Aalto said.

    After a trip to Finland in 1960, Spanish architect Vicente Saavedra (1937-2021) plans the construction of TenBel, a touristic area in the Canary Islands where he applied some of Aalto'...

  • Beautiful Beings

    Directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson • Drama • With Birgir Dagur Bjarkason • 2022 • 123 minutes

    Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. L...

  • a-ha: The Movie

    Directed by Thomas Robsahm • Documentary • With Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar, Magne Furuholmen • 2021 • 108 minutes

    Follows the band a-ha on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Bil...

  • Blind (Eskil Vogt)

    Directed by Eskil Vogt • Drama • With Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali • 2015 • 96 minutes

    Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Pettersen) is a woman contending with the loss of vision. In trying to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days attempting to reconstruct the visual worl...

  • A Man Called Ove

    Directed by Hannes Holm • Drama • With Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Pars, Ida Engvoll • 2015 • 116 minutes

    Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who sp...