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LiNC Film

at the Liverpool International
Nordic Community

What is LiNC Film?
LiNC Film aims to present the best in contemporary Scandinavian film for the benefit of the Nordic community within the region and for those from the local community in Liverpool with an interest in film and Scandinavian languages. All films are with English subtitles.

Films are usually held on the last Monday evening of each month at 7.45 pm. Visitor admission is £4.50 and Scandinavian food and refreshments are available before and after each film with proceeds benefiting LiNC. For film bookings ring Tony Slater on 0151 336 2176.

LiNC Film welcomes you to an alternative and enjoyable Monday night out.

2009/2010 programme

Monday 28th September 7.45pm
Time For Change (Tid Til Forandring)
Lotte Svendsen, Denmark, 2004 (91 mins)
A bittersweet comedy drama with ensemble cast. A fitness centre manager, presumed dead for years, offers an alcoholic psychotherapist the opportunity to join a scheme to raise money for the world's needy. A care worker with low self-esteem enters a pole-sitting competition. A repressed IT engineer tries to attract the attention of a billboard glamour model with unexpected results.

Monday 26th October 7.45pm
O'Horten
Bent Hamer, Norway, 2007 (90 mins)
From the award winning director of Factotum and Kitchen Stories. After 40 years of dutiful service as a train engineer, 67 year old Odd Horten is forced to retire. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of absurd adventures and quirky encounters, an old love and maybe even a new dog.

Monday 30th November 7.45pm
Masjävlar
Maria Blom, Sweden, 2004 (94 mins)
A film debut from acclaimed theatrical director Maria Blom. Masjavlar concerns the youngest of three sisters who reluctantly returns to her home after 15 years to celebrate her father's 70th birthday. When it emerges she will inherit the family's lakeside cabin, a tangled web of tensions and repressed emotions unfolds.

Monday 7th December 7.45pm
Finnish Shorts including;
Hiihtäjät (The Skiers)
John Webster, 2006
A celebration of the joy of life, old age and the tough endurance of the Finnish spirit in a handful of words and a few telling images.

Ei Kukaan ole saari (No Man is an Island)
Sonja Lindén, 2006
In beautifully composed images, a poetic and warm-hearted rumination on mortality, loss and love.

Monday 18th January 7.45pm
Jar City (Myrin)
Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland, 2008 (93 mins)
A seemingly innocuous old man is brutally killed in Iceland. His case is investigated by Detective Erlendur Sveisson whose life is plagued by various forms of addiction. Erlendur discovers that the victim was anything but an innocent pensioner, his past filled with attacks and violence. This leads Erlendur to connect the assassination to other unsolved homicides, revealing an unsettling and horrific picture that spreads virtually over the entire country.

Monday 22nd February 7.45pm
The Passion of Anna
Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1970 (96 mins)
A penetrating portrait of four lost souls seeking solace in one another, even as their lives are torn apart. On a windswept barren island, Andreas lives simply and quietly until he meets Anna, a beautiful mysterious widow. Soon, secrets from Andreas and Anna's pasts threaten to shatter not only their desperate attempt at love but also their tenuous hold on reality.

Monday 22nd March 7.45pm
The Judge (Dommeren)
Gert Ffredholm, Denmark, 2005 (89 mins)
Jens Christian is a highly competent judge and newly appointed chairman of the Danish Refugee Board. He rules to deport poet and political activist Sergo Bliadze. Hearing the verdict, Bliadze attempts suicide. Ministers, media and colleagues come down hard on Jens Christian. In the midst of this crisis, a son, whose appearance he has previously denied appears from his past. Jens Christian struggles to resolve both his personal and professional lives.

Monday 26th April 7.45pm
Hamlet Goes Business
Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, 1987 (86 mins)
In this satire of the corporate world, Kaurismäki updates Shakespeare's tragedy as a hard-boiled noir. An irresponsible playboy finds himself involved in a vicious boardroom power struggle with his uncle. There are dark plans involving asset stripping and rubber ducks.

Monday 24th May 7.45pm
Max Manus
Joachim Rønning, Esper Sandberg, Norway, 2008 (116 mins)
After fighting the communists in Finland, Max Manus returns to Norway to join the Resistance in the fight against Nazi Germany. As the war becomes more and more brutal, many of his friends lose their lives. He ultimately realises that everybody is a victim of the meaningless of war.