October 23 – 25, 2009
Contact: charlotte@nordicmuseum.org
SEATTLE NORDIC FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, October 23
7:30 Everlasting Moments (DK and SE) 131 min
SATURDAY, October 24
10:00 My Uncle Loved the Color Yellow (SE) 9 min
Karla’s World (DK) 90 min
1:00 Misty Mountain (IS) 31 min
Herdswoman (SE/Sami) 58 min
3:00 Lights in the Dusk (FI) 78 min
7:30 When Elvis Came to Visit (SE) 11 min
Flame and Citron (DK) 120 min
SUNDAY, October 25
10:00 Mystery of the Wolf (FI) 90 min
2:00 Family Reunion (IS) 19 min
The World in Denmark (DK) 42 min
3:30 Little Man (DK) 12 min
Back Soon (IS) 90 min
7:00 Black Ice (FI) 110 min
9:00 Dead Snow (NO) 90 min
Back Soon (IS)
Anna Hallgrimsdottir, a poetess, dish washer, and marijuana dealer in her late thirties, lives in Reykjavik with her two sons. This humorous look at Icelandic life follows Anna in the 48 hours as she sells her drug business.
Black Ice (FI)
Black Ice is a suspenseful Finnish drama about an unlikely relationship between two women. The main characters, Saara and Tuuli, are irresistible and unpredictable women of equal strength who are both connected to the same man.
Dead Snow (NO)
The group of friends had all they would need for a successful Easter vacation: cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them had anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains surrounding the aptly named Øksfjord (Axefjord) had other plans…
Everlasting Moments (DK and SE)
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class Swedish woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Family Reunion (IS)
A modern-day coming out story about a young Icelandic woman living in New York, coming back to Iceland for a family reunion. How will the family take her news?
Flame and Citron (DK)
In Copenhagen of 1944, Denmark is occupied by Nazi Germany. Resistance fighters Flame and Citron are charged with liquidating Danish informers. In the struggle for freedom, all zones appear grey, and it becomes increasingly unclear who is friend and who is foe. Based on true events.
*Biggest Danish blockbuster/most money spent filming.
Herdswoman (SE/Sami)
Herdswoman is about three Sami women to whom reindeer herding is more than a mere occupation; it is a way of life, their culture. The film shows the vulnerability of indigenous peoples in modern society and the colonization process, which has led to the present conflict about the right to land and water.
Karla’s World (DK)
Ten-year old Karla has a puzzle to solve: she badly wants her whole family to get together for Christmas, but that’s not an easy thing to do. Especially when your parents are divorced and you have two extremely obnoxious and inventive younger brothers who are always acting up.
Lights in the Dusk (FI)
Koistinen, a lonely night watchman, is exploited by criminal elements because of his longing for love. This movie, directed by the amazing Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, concludes the trilogy that started with Drifting Clouds and continued with The Man Without a Past.
Little Man (DK)
Eight-year old Mathias is writing an essay for school entitled “How to Understand Women.” His fieldwork turns out to be quite difficult.
Misty Mountain (IS)
While based in a remote NATO radar station in Iceland in the late 1960s, Warren occasionally time traveled into the future, to the year 2006. Now, as his former destination in time becomes his present, he returns to prevent the death of the woman he fell in love with during his travels
Mr. Mustache (NO)
Mr. Mustache is a film about men and their mustaches. Consisting of several interviews woven together as a lively collage, the ten participants tell both disadvantages and positive effects from the hair growing beneath their noses. This humoristic film covers subjects such as kissing and risky consumption of messy ice creams.
My Uncle Loved the Color Yellow (SE)
A tragicomic short about a moving relationship between a boy and a rather special uncle.
Mystery of the Wolf (FI)
A family film adventure in the wilderness of the Finnish Lapland. Twelve-year old Salla defends the wolves that are a threat to the local livelihood, reindeer husbandry.
When Elvis Came to Visit (SE)
An intimate film about a small, yet momentous, meeting in Sweden between Lukas and the young boy Elvis, whose parents are from Iran. Lukas, not an immigrant friendly person, tries to keep his distance, but the young boy’s innocence gradually affects him.
The World in Denmark (DK)
This is Denmark. With an even-keeled narrative, Max Kestner’s film takes us on a kaleidoscopic tour around Denmark.
