The 2023 Saxo Scandinavian Film Festival returns to Perth to showcase the best contemporary cinema from the Nordic regions, with screenings at Palace Cinemas from July 20 to August 9. Expect a lineup of high-calibre and award-winning films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden that explore culture, history and life throughout the region – festival director Elyse Zeccola shares her must-see picks. //www.youtube.com/embed/osXmJdNxesk
LET THE RIVER FLOW
ELLOS EATNU – LA ELVA LEVE
Based on true events that inspired a generation of young Norwegians, writer/director Ole Giæver’s elegant, multi award-winning drama follows a young woman who is unintentionally drawn into a protest against a dam that may flood Indigenous Sámi land. //www.youtube.com/embed/X5aDoDK6twQ
WILD GAME
VILLIBRÁÐ
An all-star Icelandic cast including Aníta Briem (Quake SCA22, The Minister), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (Trapped, Agnes JoySCA21), Hilmar Guðjónsson (also in Godland) and Hilmir Snær Guðnason (A White, White Day SCA19) comes together in this dramatic comedy of manners. //www.youtube.com/embed/0Hot2tpLLOc
GODLAND
VOLAÐA LAND
Award winning writer/director Hlynur Pálmason’s much anticipated follow-up to his breakout hit A White, White Day is a stunning historical drama of a Danish priest who goes on a pilgrimage across a largely unexplored Iceland in the late 1800s. //www.youtube.com/embed/QMs28A1s1OA
BORDER
GRÄNS
Based on a short story by Let the Right One In author John Ajvide Lindqvist, Border explores themes of identity, otherness and societal norms. It delves into the complex nature of human relationships and challenges the conventional notions of beauty and normalcy, by weaving together elements of fantasy, drama and mystery. //player.vimeo.com/video/801560080?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=8dc7dc
DARKLAND: THE RETURN
UNDERVERDEN II
From critically acclaimed director Fenar Ahmad comes pulsating action thriller Darkland: The Return, the highly anticipated successor to the Danish box office smash hit Darkland SCA17, starring an excellent Dar Salim (The Covenant) as the truth-seeking antihero Zaid.
