New Nordic Cinema
February 19 through May 16, 2014
Wednesdays @ 7 pm & Fridays @ 6:30 pm
$10 ($7 ASF Members); Series pass: $100 ($70 ASF Members)

Scandinavia House brings some of the most influential Nordic films to New York audiences this spring with films from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

Call Girl
April 2 & 4

Directed by Mikael Marcimain (Sweden, 2012). Stockholm, late ‘70s. The model utopian society. Political neutrality and atomic power march hand in hand with women's liberation and the sexual revolution. But under the polished surface, other darker desires are eager to be fulfilled. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive, glittery, and dirty world of sex clubs, strip shows, discotheques, and apartments used for illicit and profitable rendezvous. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris (Sofia Karemyr) is recruited from the bottom rung of society, into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.

A political and emotional thriller with nerve and social conscience, Call Girl is inspired by thrillers from the 1970s like All the President’s Men, Three Days for Condor, and Serpico. Youth is seductive. Power is corrupt.
140 min. In Swedish with English subtitles.

Special thanks to the Danish Film Institute, the Finnish Film Foundation, the Icelandic Film Centre, the Norwegian Film Institute, the Swedish Film Institute, Nordic House in the Faroe Islands, Corinth Films, Magnolia Pictures, and Chezville.