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SEA-Nordic Film Festival: Skádja (2022) & Sauna (2025)

Sept 16, 2026

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Members: $12
General Admission: $14

2655 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107

206.789.5707

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Skádja (2022)

6:05 - 6:20pm

A woman with a heavy suitcase finds herself in another woman’s natural territory — deep in a forest. Their meeting has a powerful impact on them both, and no matter how much they are trying to escape it, something has dramatically changed within them. While constantly being present in each other’s minds, the search for ways to overcome inner conflicts goes on. Conflicts that have been created due to centuries of societal judgment and repression from society.

Film Details

Director: Eili Bråstad Johannessen
Year: 2022
Runtime: 17m
Language: Saami
Country of Origin: Sápmi
Genre: Short

Sauna (2025)

6:20 - 8:05pm

Sauna follows Johan, a young gay man, through his experiences with love and sex. He has just started working as a receptionist at Adonis, Copenhagen's only gay sauna, where he works and spends much of his time.

For Johan, the city is like a boundless paradise of opportunities with bars, parties, and one-night stands, but it is only when he meets transgender William that he experiences love up close. The love between the two is put to a tough test as their relationship develops within a society governed by rigid ideas about gender, love, and identity.