Nordic Focus Festival in Gdansk

Nordic Focus Festival inspires discussion of the Nordic image in Poland

From November 23rd Nordic Focus Festival in Gdańsk will inspire discussion of the image of the Nordic community depicted in literature, films and TV series. Participants will look into the culture and life in the North and consider whether that reality influences the population of the rest of the world.

Danish writer and director Daniel Dencik will be one of the main guests of the festival. His movie Expedition to the End of The World will officially open the festival, after which he will take part in a discussion panel Ultima Thule. Culture at the Outskirts of the North together with Agata Lubowicka, PhD, Professor Maria Sibińska, Lisbeth Nebelong and Piotr Mikołajczak. Daniel will also take part in a Q&A session the next day, where his other movie Moon Rider will also be screened.

Another Danish segment in the program is a presentation on Danish culture by Danish Cultural Institute in Warsaw’s interns Amanda Laasholdt and Adnan Tajić

Program

23 November 2017

13:30-15:00

Expedition To The End of The World (dir. Daniel Dencik)

15:15-16:30

Discussion panel Ultima Thule. The Culture at the Outskirts of the North

Panelists: Agata Lubowicka, PhD, Professor Maria Sibińska, PhD, Daniel Dencik, Lisbeth Nebelong, Piotr Mikołajczak – discussion led by Sebastian Kuba Konefał, PhD

Theater Hall, Neophilology Building UG

24 November 2017

11:30-12:00

The Many Faces of Denmark / presentation by Amanda Laasholdt and Adnan Tajić (ENG)

12:00-13:30

Q&A session with Daniel Dencik – led by Marta Maciejewska and Tomasz Archutowski (ENG)

Room 023, Neophilology Building UG

17:00-18:30

Moon Rider (dir. Daniel Dencik)

Lecture Hall 1.43, Faculty of Philology UG

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