This Saturday, October 8th at 1:30pm, we will be showing the Norwegian movie "Beware of Children" When crisis strikes we reveal our true colors. Beware of Children traces the dramatic aftermath of a tragic event in a middle class suburb of Oslo. During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, […]
The Scandinavian Library will be open 11am to 3pm. Kaffestugan is open 10am to 2pm. Masks must be worn for entry into the Scandinavian Living Center.
The Library and Kaffestugan will be closed Saturday, November 26th
The Library will be open 11am to 3pm on Saturday, December 3rd. The Kaffestugan will be closed due to the SWEA Fair. For more information on the SWEA Fair, click here.
In this film the couple, Maija and Jalmari (played by Kiti Kokkonen and Sami Hedberg), inherits the house of their dreams. For a while, they live in the belief that luck kicked them properly. But: the house demands a little bit of renovating. Soon the couple finds themselves in the middle of an all-time renovation. […]
Kris lives with her partly disabled uncle in rural Denmark and together they run a small farm. In their quirky yet loving relationship built around daily routines, words aren’t necessary. Kris is the dominant workhorse and she has taken on a motherly and overprotective role towards her uncle. When Kris saves a calf during a […]
Two senior citizens grow tired of the conditions in their retirement home & decide to rob banks so they can afford to buy a small apartment Two living legends of Icelandic comedy Edda Björgvinsdóttir (Hófí) and Þórhallur ‘Laddi’ Sigurðsson (Pétur) unite in Grandma Hófí. Hófí and Pétur are fed up with the conditions of the […]
In 2019 the Guggenheim Museum in NYC presented the complete works of Hilma af Klint, the first major solo exhibition in the United States devoted to her work. Hilma died in 1944, unknown and unrecognized as the woman who invented abstract painting. The Guggenheim exhibit revolutionized the art world and art history, displacing Kandinsky, Malevich […]
POSTPONED FROM JUNE: Marie recently found herself abandoned on Christmas Eve by her husband and has been falling apart ever since. Berling has been the eternal “bacherlorette” who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, all seems perfect until we find out about her complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja is still living […]
The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind’s brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the perilous trek to Iceland’s southeastern coast with the intention of establishing […]
An intense movie, shot from a blind man’s perspective. An atypical action/ thriller film about a man who has to go through hell to reach his loved one. Jaakko is blind and disabled, tethered to his wheelchair. He loves Sirpa. Living far away, they have never met in person, but they meet every day over […]
Based on Vilhelm Moberg’s much-loved suite of novels — previously adapted in 1971 by Jan Troell into an Academy Award-nominated classic — The Emigrants tells the story of Kristina Nilsson (Lisa Carlehed), a mother who leaves poverty-stricken Sweden with her family in the 1850s on a long, dangerous journey to find a better life for […]