26/01/2023 - From 1 to 3 February, Brussels will welcome the second edition of the festival, for three themed evenings celebrating Nordic cinema

For the second edition of the POLARISE Nordic Film Nights, which will take place in the Galeries de Bruxelles cinema from 1 to 3 February, curators are offering a very eclectic programme. 

Audiences will have a chance to discover Woman at Sea [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dinara Drukarova
film profile] by Dinara Drukarova (with the director in attendance), a poetic and intimate journey in Iceland presented in the New Directors description of the last San Sebastián Film Festival, and Sick of Myself [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kristine Kujath Thorp
interview: Kristoffer Borgli
film profile] by Kristoffer Borgli, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the last Cannes Film Festival, where the deliciously maddening film was one of the best of the festival.

Also in the programme is Godland [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elliott Crosset Hove
interview: Hlynur Pálmason
film profile], Hlynur Pálmason’s spectacular, visceral and epic film which follows in the footsteps of a young Danish priest faced with a thousand difficulties in the wilderness of late 19th century Iceland, and was also presented in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.

In addition to several short films, POLARISE Nordic Film Nights also offers two documentaries: Susanna Helke’s Ruthless Times – Songs of Care [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Susanna Helke
film profile], a musical documentary about the state of elder care in Finland which won the first prize at the Tampere festival; and Karaoke Paradise [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Einari Paakkanen
film profile] by Einnari Paakkanen, seen at CPH:DOX, a touching film that truly succeeds in making you believe that there isn’t a single unpleasant person in Finland. 

Finally, double Palme d'Or winner Ruben Östlund, whose Triangle of Sadness [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ruben Östlund
interview: Ruben Östlund
film profile] is now nominated for the Best Film, Best Directing and Best Original Screenplay Oscars, will be invited to Brussels by the festival in collaboration with the CINEMATEK on 7, 8 and 9 May.

(Translated from French)