Over the past decade, Scandinavian films have featured prominently at many top international film festivals. Academy Award for Best Documentary winner Searching for Sugar Man and Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival winner The Act of Killing have sparked a wave international interest in Northern European cinema. In their sixth year of collaboration, the Nordic Documentary Film Festival (NORDOX) and UCCA will select fifteen documentaries from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland for a week-long festival. All of this year’s features will deal with cinematic depictions of renowned creative professionals. To complement the screenings, UCCA has organized a forum on Nordic cinema and Q & A sessions with the films’ directors. The festival will mark the China debut of all of the featured films, giving audiences a taste of the newest in Nordic film culture.

10.19

14:00 TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard + Q & A with director

16:30 Suddenly Sami and Norwegian Shorts Collection: Still Birds / Travelling Fields / Little Miss Eyeflap

19:00 The Ambassador

10.20

14:00 Future My Love + Q & A with director

16:30 Forum

17:30 The Seduced Human

19:00 Helsinki Twilight 1984 + Grandma Lo-Fi

10.23

19:00 The Punk Syndrome

10.24

19:00 99% Honest

10.25

19:00 Karen Blixen: Behind Her Mask + The Man Behind the Throne

10.26

19:30 Palme

10.27

16:30 Dreamland

19:00 Am I Black Enough for You

NORDOX is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting a Nordic perspective on society at large. Each year, NORDOX selects a wide range of cutting-edge documentary films and photography from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland for exhibition.