Scandinavian Film Evening

The Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation invites you a Nordic film screening of The Girl with the Needle.

An Oscar-nominated marvel of exquisite empathy, Magnus von Horn’s masterful vision of early 20th-century Denmark searches for tenderness and morality under fraught circumstances. Drawing on chilling true events that continue to resonate, this gothic parable is a visceral reckoning from the past.We welcome you to SACHF’s Scandinavian Film Evening!

In 1919, in a Copenhagen scarred by the first world war, a young woman's already meagre supply of luck runs out. Karoline loses her home, then her job as a seamstress. She is pregnant, destitute and desperate. A chance encounter with Dagmar, who runs an illegal adoption service, offers a lifeline, employment and perhaps even hope for the future. But hope, like everything in this arresting, factually based black-and-white drama, is threadbare, undernourished and rotten to the core.

Awards and Nominations

• Nominee: 2025 Oscar — Best International Feature Film
• Nominee: Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival
• Nominee: Best Film, Polish Film Festival
• Total 47 wins and 46 nominations

Tickets are $15, but free for Cal Lutheran students, staff and faculty. Seats are limited, so please purchase tickets in advance using the link below. If still available, tickets will be sold at the door.

For more information contact Hans Edlund, program director, at 714-686-4192.

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