Nordic Lights Film Festival- Twin Cities (NLFF-TC)

The Twin Cities Associates of the American Scandinavian Foundation is pleased to present the first annual Nordic Lights Film Festival – Twin Cities. Hosted at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis November 20 – 22, 2009, the festival will include a variety of feature-length and short films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway Sweden, and Greenland.

Nordic Lights Film Festival

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Friday 11/20, The Parkway Theater

6:30pm  Prostitution Behind the Veil (Prostitution bakom slöjan) (Sweden: 90 min) (preview)
8.00-8.30pm Q & A

9:00pm  Nordic Shorts (1.5 hours)

Saturday 11/21, Parkway Theater

11:00am:  The Mystery of the Wolf (Suden arvoitus) (Finland: 90 min)

1:00pm:  Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) (Sweden / Denmark: 131 min) (preview)

3.45pm:  My Uncle Loved the Color Yellow (Min morbror tyckte mycket om gult) (Sweden: 9 min) & Heaven’s Heart (Himlens hjärta) (Sweden: 95 min) (preview)

6:00pm:  The Lake (Järvi) (Finland: 8 min) & Black Ice (Musta jää) (Finland: 110 min) (preview) Due to the explicit sexual content of this film, no admittance will be given to youth under 17.

8:30pm:  Mr. Mustache (Norway: 7 min) & Dead Snow (Død Snø) (Norway: 90 min) (preview)

Sunday 11/22, The Parkway Theater

11:00am:  The Last Farm (Síðasti bærinn) (Iceland: 15 min) & Back Soon (Skrapp Ut) (Iceland: 92 min) (preview)

1:15pm:  Silent Snow (Greenland: 14 min) & Herdswoman (Hjordeliv) (Sweden / Sami: 58 min) (preview)

3:00pm: Wrestling (Bræðrabylta) (Iceland: 20 min) & Small Mountain (Heiðin) (Iceland: 95 min)

5:30pm: Little Man (Lille mand) (Denmark: 13 min) & Fear Me Not (Den du frygter) (Denmark: 95 min) (preview)

8:00pm:  Harvest Time (Elonkorjuu) (Finland: 15 min) & Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) (Finland: 93 min) (preview)

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Monday 11/23, Parkway Theater
7.00pm: Heaven’s Heart (Himlens hjärta) (Sweden: 95 min) (preview)

Tuesday 11/24, Parkway Theater
6:50pm: Black Ice (Musta jää) (Finland: 110 min) (preview) Due to the explicit sexual content of this film, no admittance will be given to youth under 17.

Wednesday 11/25, Parkway Theater
5:30pm:  Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) (Sweden / Denmark: 131 min) (preview)

The Nordic Lights Film Festival – Twin Cities is a program of the Twin Cities Associates of the American Scandinavian Foundation, and is part of a series of Nordic Film Festivals taking place throughout the U.S. this year. Other festival locations include Seattle, Austin, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Denver. Film fest partners include the Swedish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Icelandic Film Centre and IFC Films.

Corporate and Foundation sponsors include Lektorpuljen, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, The American Swedish Institute, Bache-Gabrielsen Norwegian Cognac, Anderson Friesen Creative, Concordia Language Villages, Mindekirken Norwegian Language & Culture Program, Mindekirken Norwegian Lutheran Church, FinnStyle, Trillium Tours, and Finnish American Cultural Activities, Inc.  Support has also been given by the Norwegian Dept. at St. Olaf College, the Scandinavian Studies Dept. at Gustavus Adolphus College and the German, Scandinavian and Dutch Dept. at the University of Minnesota.

Questions?  Contact us at nordiclightsfilmfest at gmail.com

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