Latest Past Events

Film Screening: “Atlas”

Online

The German Film Office is pleased to present David Nawrath’s award-winning film Atlas as part of its monthly German Movie Nights series. Atlas won the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Award as well Best Actor (Rainer Bock) at the 2018 Torino Film Festival. It also received the Emden Screenplay Award in 2015. Free admission to viewers across the United States.

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Outgoing Vessel & Sense Violence – Virtual Poetry Reading

On May 13, see a virtual poetry reading and discussion with Nordic poets and translators Helena Boberg, Johannes Göransson, Katrine Øgaard Jensen, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen, moderated by Paul Cunningham (The House of the Tree of Sores). Helena Boberg and Johannes Göransson will present readings of works from Boberg’s new book Sense Violence, now out in English translation by Göransson from Black Ocean, and…

Anxious People By Fredrik Backman–Online Nordic Book Club

Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives: a recently retired couple with unaddressed marriage problems; a wealthy bank director too busy for relationships; an 87-year-old woman who has lived too long to be afraid…