The 17th year of the festival of Nordic culture will focus on the topic of transformation.
The festival Nordic Days 2026 will commence on 6th October in both Prague and Brno and will last until 26th October. Transformation and change affect all of us, whether it is in our personal lives or in the world around us. We stand before many challenges – (non)parenthood, burnout, aging – which have only recently began to be spoken about openly. Our planet and the places that surround us change together with us.
The festival programme will kick off with the screening of a Lithuanian film Renovation (2025). We will welcome the Finnish-Swedish writer Maria Turtschaninoff, author of the popular novel Tangled Roots, and the Norwegian writer Linn Strømsborg, the author of Never, Ever, Ever who recently came out with a new novel, Damn, Damn, Damn. In addition to two more film screenings – the document The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) and the Danish sci-fi Eternal (2023) – you can also look forward to two travel lectures, Nordic roadtrip and Antarctica.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME IN PRAGUE:
6. 10. 19:00 Screening: Renovation (Evald Cinema)
– in original sound with Czech subtitles
– entrance fee: 165 CZK on presale at evald.cz; 180 CZK at the movie theather box office
13. 10. 19:00 Mysterious countryside: Maria Turtschaninoff & Zuzana Říhová (Čítárna Unijazz)
– in Swedish and Czech, interpreted into Czech
– entrance fee is voluntary
15. 10. 17:00 Travel afternoon: Antarctica (Municipal Library of Prague)
– in Czech
– entrance fee: 80 CZK; presale at www.mlp.cz
19. 10. 18:30 Being a woman: Linn Strømsborg & Dorota Ambrožová (Čítárna Unijazz)
– Norwegian and Czech, interpreted into Czech
– Entrance fee is voluntary
22. 10. 19:00 Screening: The Swedish Theory of Love (Evald Cinema)
– with the kind permission of director Erik Gandini
– in original sound with Czech subtitles
– entrance fee: 165 CZK on presale at evald.cz; 180 CZK at the movie theather box office
26. 10. 19:00 #ReadNordicFilm: Eternal (Edison Filmhub)
– in original sound with Czech and English subtitles
– entrance fee 190 CZK; online at edisonfilmhub.cz
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME IN BRNO:
6. 10. 20:00 Screening: Renovation (Art Cinema)
– in original sound with Czech subtitles
– entrance fee: 150 CZK (130 CZK for Scandinavian House members); online at kinoart.cz
15. 10. 17:00 Mysterious countryside: Maria Turtschaninoff & Marie Hajdová (Jiří Mahen Library)
– in Swedish and Czech, interpreted into Czech
– entrance fee is voluntary
21. 10. 17:00 Travel lecture: Nordic roadtrip (Jiří Mahen Library)
– in Czech
– entrance fee is voluntary
26. 10. 20:15 #ReadNordicFilm: Eternal (Art Cinema)
– in original sound with Czech subtitles
– entrance fee: 150 CZK (130 CZK for Scandinavian house members); online at kinoart.cz
ONLINE EVENTS:
12. 10. 20:00 Nordic literary salon online: The darkness of Småland (Scandinavian House Facebook)
– in Czech
The festival is organised by the Scandinavian House with the financial support of the Czech Ministry of Culture, the City of Prague, Norwegian Embassy in Prague, Embassy of Sweden in Czechia and Embassy of Lithuania in Prague, Finnish Literature Exchange (FILI) and Norwegian Literature Abroad (NORLA). The main event partner is the travel agency Periscope Skandinávie.
