September 10: INGMAR BERGMAN
PERSONA*. Sweden 1966 (35mm, 83 min., drama) Dir.: Ingmar Bergman. With: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Margaretha Krook. A nurse is put in charge of an actress, who cannot talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers. Reviews/revues: English/Française
SARABAND*. Sweden/Italy/Germany/Finland/Denmark/Austria 2003 (DVD, 108 min., drama) Dir.: Ingmar Bergman. With: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt. After thirty years without seeing each other, Marianne visits her ex-husband Johan living in an isolated summerhouse; soon, she finds herself unwillingly drawn into a complicated and upsetting power struggle. Reviews/revues: English/Française

October 8: SWEDISH NIGHT
EVERLASTING MOMENTS/MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK*. Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden/Germany 2008 (35mm, 131 min., drama) Dir.: Jan Troell. With: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen. Sweden, early 1900s—a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery which changes her life. Golden Globe 2009, Best Foreign Language Film Nominee.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN/LÅT DEN RÄTTE KOMMA IN*. Sweden 2008 (35mm, 114 min., vampire drama) Dir.: Tomas Alfredson. With: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar. Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.

November 5: NORWEGIAN NIGHT
O’HORTEN*. Norway/Germany/France 2007 (35mm, 90 min., comedy) Dir.: Bent Hamer. With: Baard Owe, Peter Bredal, Bjorn Floberg. A drama focused on a lifechanging moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence: the evening of his retirement. Reviews/revues: Hollywood Reporter/Boston Globe
BOTHERSOME MAN/DEN BRYSOMME MANNEN*. Norway/Iceland 2006 (DVD, 95 min., drama) Dir.: Jens Lien. With Trond Fausa Aurvag, Petronella Barker, Per Schaaning. Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, and a wife but before long, he notices that something is wrong. Cannes IFF 2006: ACID Award. Reviews/revues: Variety

December 3: FINNISH/ICELANDIC NIGHT
101 REYKJAVIK*. Iceland/Denmark/Norway/Germany 2000 (35mm, 120 min, comedy/romance) Dir.: Baltasar Kormakur. With: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir. Thirty-year-old Hlynur still stays with his mother living off unemployment checks. Eventually he must confront and try to change his selfish attitude towards life and other people. Variety
MAN WITHOUT A PAST/MIES VAILLA MENNEISYYTTÄ*. Finland/Germany/France 2002 (35mm, 97 min., comedy/romance) Dir.: Aki Kaurismäki. With: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemela. A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely that he develops amnesia; he befriends some poor people from the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track. Cannes IFF 2002: Grand Prize of the Jury, Ecumenical Jury Prize, best actress. Time/Entertainment Weekly

January 7: DANISH NIGHT
ADAM’S APPLE/ADAMS ÆBLER*. Denmark/Germany 2005 (DVD, 94 min., comedy) Dir.: Anders Thomas Jensen. With: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas. A neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a provincial church clashes with the blindly devotional priest. Variety
OPEN HEARTS/ELSKER DIG FOR EVIGT*. Denmark 2004 (35mm, 113 min., drama) Dir.: Susanne Bier. With: Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas. A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident. Variety

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*English subtitles.

Bonus for Nordic Series Members!

Festival of New Spanish Cinema

The OFS is very proud to promote, together with Library and Archives Canada and the Canadian Film Institute, the Festival of New Spanish Cinema. Organized by the Embassy of Spain and Pragda, the Ottawa event kicks off the festival’s North American tour which travels subsequently to five cities in the USA. This selection of seven recent award-winning films offers a diverse, up-to-the-minute look at the work of fearless and passionate new talents along with the well-established masters of Spanish cinema. With diverse storytelling, genre and subjects, the films form an impressive body of work that addresses various issues of modern Spanish society.

The screenings take place in the Auditorium of Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St., on September 5, 6, 8 and 11. More information about the program is available at www.pragda.com. Please also check the CFI site at www.cfi-icf.ca later this summer.

As part of our effort to promote OFS thematic programming, we are extremely pleased to offer free admission to the Festival of New Spanish Cinema for members of our fall mini-series. Seating for up to fifty members is available each night at the door on a first-come, first-served basis on presentation of a Nordic mini-series membership card. We hope that you will enjoy the film selection put together by our Spanish friends!

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