All Things Nordic

The acclaimed Icelandic editor and producer behind some of Hollywood’s most kinetic films steps unexpectedly in front of the camera in Janaé Rachel Ballot’s deeply personal debut feature, which will receive its world premiere at the Reykjavík International Film Festival. The question that started a film Three years ago, over lunch in Los Angeles, Icelandic […] The post From the Editing Room to the Screen: Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir Brings Dissociated Me Home to Iceland5 min read appeared first on All Things Nordic.

From pioneering silent film to contemporary stories of love, identity and belonging, the 2026 SEA-Nordic Film Festival brings five days of LGBTQ+ cinema, conversations and collective creativity to Seattle’s National Nordic Museum. Queer Nordic cinema in the Pacific Northwest The 2026 SEA-Nordic Film Festival is taking place from 15 to 19 September at the National […] The post Seattle’s SEA-Nordic Film Festival Traces Queer Life Across a Century of Nordic Cinema6 min read appeared first on All Things Nordic.

The Danish director’s post-war drama has taken the top prize at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, while Mathilde Arcel’s performance earned a second major honour for a production uniting Denmark, Sweden and Latvia. A Nordic-Baltic triumph in Venice May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown (Kvinde Ukendt) has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 83rd […] The post Woman Unknown Wins the Golden Lion at Venice6 min read appeared first on All Things Nordic.

From Sámi reindeer country and post-war Denmark to rural Norway, the Mediterranean and an airport populated by anxious animals, eight Nordic films are appearing across the main programme and industry market of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. A Nordic line-up stretching across the TIFF programme Nordic cinema has arrived at the 2026 Toronto International […] The post Nordic Cinema Takes Centre Stage at the Toronto International Film Festival 20268 min read appeared first on All Things Nordic.

Sweden’s parliamentary election has become a contest not simply over who will govern, but over whether the Sweden Democrats will move from supporting a centre-right administration to holding ministerial office for the first time. A country divided almost exactly in half Swedes are voting on 13 September in one of the closest general elections in […] The post Sweden Votes in a Knife-Edge Election That Could Bring the Far Right into Government6 min read appeared first on All Things Nordic.