Join us for a screening of Songs of Earth (dir. Margreth Olin, Norway, 2023) in the Nordic & Baltic Oscar Contenders series at Scandinavia House!

The series returns this year with screenings of films chosen by the Nordic & Baltic countries to compete for the Oscar nomination for Best International Feature Film, including this year’s candidate for Norway.

“A remarkable, poetic meditation” (Vox) — a stunning documentary about life, mortality, and humanity’s place within nature, Songs of Earth was made over the course of a year that director Margreth Olin spent with her elderly father in his ancestral home of Oldedalen. Olin’s father becomes our guide to the majestic fjord-carved river valley — having lived in Oldedalen for most of his 85 years, he shares his deeply felt connection to a landscape that we learn to be both bountiful and unforgiving. Executive produced by Liv Ullmann and Wim Wenders, Olin’s breathtaking footage of primordial elements — wild mountains, calving glaciers, and bustling wildlife — propels profound, existential conversations between parent and child.