Films

Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Actress at the Danish Academy Awards, this provocative comedy starring Amanda Collins cleverly explores a dysfunctional relationship.

A captivating film with a superb Danica Curcic in the lead, Darling follows a world-renowned ballerina caught up in a love triangle while preparing for a new production of ‘Giselle.’

Two awkward European entrepreneurs set out on a business adventure to try and make their fortune in China’s lucrative pet industry in this hilarious film about misguided ambition. 

Inspired by true events, this Danish Academy Award-nominated drama from Mehdi Avaz follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine after a tragic accident.

Winner of Best Film at the 2018 Danish Academy Awards, the routines, habits, and rituals of two brothers working in a remote mine are ruptured by a violent feud with a neighbouring family.

Changes threaten the peace in a 1980s suburban Danish household when the family’s pyjama-clad patriarch and self-appointed “God” sets out to write his memoirs, in this wry comedy starring Søren Malling.

A young man tries to overcome his fears by leading his small-town Finland heavy metal band to a massive music festival in Norway, in this breakout SXSW hit comedy.

Taking place on both sides of the Swedish-Finnish border, a retiring policeman gets caught up between his two sons trying to kill each other in this remote western thriller.

In this 7-time Icelandic Academy Award-nominated drama, a young girl is sent to mature and work on a farm after shoplifting, but there finds herself deeply entangled in an adult drama.

The shade from a front-yard tree brings the already simmering tensions between two families in an Icelandic suburb to boiling point, in this hilariously absurd and astute black comedy.

A student, Thelma, moves to Oslo where she discovers that she has terrifying powers in Joachim Trier’s psychodrama, which was selected as Norway’s foreign-language Oscar entry.

Erik Poppe, the award-winning director of The King’s Choice, crafts a harrowing drama depicting the 2011 attack on Utøya island, Norway shot entirely in one take.

A critically acclaimed hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, this Scandinavian Gothic mystery follows a young boy who leaves his remote Norwegian village and ventures into the forest.

A Norwegian teen clashes with the traditional values of her Pakistani emigrant parents in this compelling drama, winner of the Audience Award at the 2018 Göteborg Film Festival.

The astonishing rise to fame in the 1970s of singer Ted Gärdestad is chronicled in this music-filled biopic from the director of A Man Called Ove.

Using mobiles and selfie sticks, two high school girls document their declining provincial town in this comedy that won the 2018 Göteborg Film Festival award for Best Nordic Film.

The early life of much-loved children’s writer Astrid Lindgren, who would go on to create Pippi Longstocking, is explored in this heartfelt drama by Pernille Fischer Christensen. 

On the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth, some of Sweden’s most prominent directors including Tomas Alfredson craft short films inspired by Bergman’s universe.

Winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Border tells the story of customs border patrol officer Tina and a mysterious traveller that upends her world.

In 1970s Sweden, in this powerful coming of age story, a young teenager, Klas, dreams of escaping the harsh life on the farm eked out by his parents and generations before them.

After a life of decadence financed by her father, 68-year-old Nojet inherits an apartment building in downtown Stockholm, but what appears to be a cash cow is, in fact, a curse.