10x DP Scandinavian Film Festival (Easy entry)

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2017 Scandinavian Film Festival (Ticket Giveaway)




Want to go to Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and/or Iceland but can't spare the Euros? The 2017 Scandinavian Film Festival is your next best option – and it's touring around Australia this July and August. Screening 20 films in total (you can check out the whole program here), it’s like late-night SBS, only better. Here’s a little of what’s on offer.

The festival opens with cinema legend Aki Kaurismäki’s latest, The Other Side of Hope – a timely, wryly observed portrait of a Syrian immigrant’s experience of life in modern Finland. It picked up the coveted Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, so is definitely one to watch out for.

Speaking of Finland: Tom of Finland offers a portrait of the famous outsider artist whose erotic creations galvanised a generation of men (and women) hungry for leather-clad, muscle-bound authority figures in an age of repressed sexuality.

If you’ve cottoned on to the fantastic television coming out Norway in the last decade, Charlotte Sieling’s latest should intrigue. Sieling’s behind the Holy Trinity of Nordic crime drama (The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge), and her latest film – The Man – brings her trademark suspense to the big screen. It’s a searing portrait of the pretensions and paranoid rivalries in Copenhagen’s elite art scene. We won’t say any more than that.

Other standouts include the big budget WWII drama The King’s Choice, the (very) black comedy Small Town Killers, and the darker (and entirely comedy-free) A Conspiracy of Faith, which looks at religious cults in rural Denmark.

Festival details
The 2017 Scandinavian Film Festival is screening in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth from July 11 until August 6. See the session times for your city here.

Giveaway
We have 10 double passes to give away. To enter, fill out this online form - http://www.smithjournal.com.au/main-content/giveaways , making sure to list your preferred screening* and city.

*Excludes opening/closing nights and special events.