SEA-Nordic Film Festival

Name: SEA-Nordic Film Festival
Start: 2026-09-15
End: 2026-09-19
Location: National Nordic Museum

September 15-19, 2026

Members
Full Festival Pass: $90
Saturday Pass: $44
Single Ticket: $12

General Admission
Full Festival Pass: $100
Saturday Pass: $52
Single Ticket: $14

2655 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107

206.789.5707

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Celebrating queer Nordic cinema in the Pacific Northwest!

The 2026 SEA-Nordic Film Festival showcases LGBTQ+ stories from across the Nordic region. Trace the history of queer representation in Nordic cinema in this week-long festival highlighting queer love, gender exploration, and cultural identity. This festival includes one of the first overt representations of gay relationships in cinema alongside contemporary films that showcase the diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences.

The Nordic landscape sets the stage for beautiful cinematography and memorable stories you will want to revisit.

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SEA-Nordic is back and better than ever

This year, the Festival will be hosted in Osberg Great Hall at the National Nordic Museum.

Screenings will occur over an entire week and will include short films, talk backs with academics and artists, and a collaborative art project.

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Festival Schedule

Tuesday, September 15

BLUSH — An Extraordinary Voyage (2022)

6:05 - 6:20pm
Finland

For Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public.
Show Me Love (1998)

6:20 - 7:50pm
Sweden, Denmark

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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Wednesday, September 16

Skádja (2022)

6:05 - 6:20pm
Sápmi

Two women meet in the woods. Can they overcome their traumas? Skádja is an exploration of nature, spirituality, passion, and movement: A queer story of finding inner strength, despite the eerie echoes of the past.
Feature Film (To Be Announced)

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Thursday, September 17

Chavo (2023)

6:05 - 6:20pm
Sweden

Tommy's grill is a meeting place for the Romani community. Here a motley crew of people gather to eat and talk. When a young man visits the restaurant one evening, rumors begin to spread and Tommy is forced to revisit traumatic memories.
Feature Film (To Be Announced)

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Friday, September 18

And Then We Danced (2019)

6:00 - 8:30pm
Sweden, Georgia, France

A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

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Saturday, September 19

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Michael (1924)

11:00am - 12:45pm
Denmark, Germany

A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history.

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🎤 This film will be introduced by Amanda Doxtater, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, who has written widely on Nordic cinema.
Girls Lost (2015)

2:00pm - 3:40pm
Sweden, Finland

Nectar from a magic flower allows three girls to live as boys for a while.
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault, Suicide

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Tom of Finland (2017)

4:00 - 6:30pm
Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, United States

Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and controversial figures of 20th-century gay culture.

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🎤 Before the film, join Olivia Gunn (an Associate Professor at the University of Washington) and graduate student Ethan Bjelland Hagberg for a discussion.
Dreams (Sex Love) (2024)

7:30 - 9:30pm
Norway

Johanne's intimate writings about her first love stir friction within her family, prompting her mother and grandmother to reexamine their own realities and dreams.

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