On January 14, Scandinavia House presents a special screening featuring Norways official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards: the poignant drama Sentimental Value, followed by a filmmaker panel featuring director Joachim Trier!
Sentimental Value
Dir. Joachim Trier | Norway, 2025 | 134 min
In Norwegian with English subtitles
The best film of the year (Vogue) Sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav (Stellan Skarsgrd, in a remarkable performance), a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When she declines, Gustav casts an up-and-coming young Hollywood star (Elle Fanning) instead, forcing the family to confront long-buried tensions as the striving outsider becomes entangled in their fraught dynamic.
With Sentimental Value, Danish-Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier follows his critically acclaimed The Worst Person in the World (2021) with a magnetic comedy-drama about legacy, art, and the performances that bindand dividefamilies. Triers insightful and captivating adult drama, which won the Grand Prix at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, furthers the writer-directors piercing exploration of the frayed ties that bind us to one another and to our creative selves.
A transcendent, moving masterpiece (IndieWire)
