On September 22, see the story of one of the world’s greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating in Sonja — The White Swan (Norway, 2019; dir. Anne Sewitsky)! In 1936, Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie (Ine Marie Wilmann), a three-time Olympic ladies’ singles champion famed worldwide for her athleticism, decided to move to Hollywood to become a […]
Join us for a book talk on the new novel Awake with Danish author Harald Voetmann & translator Johanne Sorgenfri Ottosen, out in translation September 21 from New Directions! In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and […]
"A film that couldn't have come at a better time" (Cineuropa) — on September 29, see the new film A Perfectly Normal Family /En helt almindelig familie (Denmark, 2020; dir. Malou Reymann) in New Nordic Cinema at Scandinavia House! Eleven-year-old Emma (Kaya Toft Loholt) has a perfectly normal family until one day she learns that her dad, Thomas, is transgender, […]
"A film that couldn't have come at a better time" (Cineuropa) — on September 29, see the new film A Perfectly Normal Family /En helt almindelig familie (Denmark, 2020; dir. Malou Reymann) in New Nordic Cinema at Scandinavia House! Eleven-year-old Emma (Kaya Toft Loholt) has a perfectly normal family until one day she learns that her dad, Thomas, is transgender, […]
