Scandinavian Community Centre

A film by the Holly­burn Her­itage Soci­ety, pre­sented by the Scan­di­na­vian Cul­tural Society.

A 50 minute film pre­sent­ing the early his­tory of ski rac­ing and ski jump­ing in the North Shore Moun­tains (1927–1967) from the per­spec­tive of Hollyburn’s ski pio­neers, many of them Scandinavians.

Date: Sun­day,  Jan­u­ary 23, 2011
Time: 2pm
Loca­tion: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Cost: Admis­sion by dona­tion, refreshments …

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Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land Sun­day After­noon Films presents:

Man­ner­heim

Czarist Gen­eral – Mar­shal of Finland

Orig­i­nally made for Swedish TV in 2007, this com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­tary traces Mannerheim’s child­hood, mil­i­tary train­ing in Ham­ina and St. Peters­burg, his career and rise to gen­eral in the Russ­ian Army, and his return to Fin­land and role in the Finnish Civil War and in the …

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Cana­dian Friends of Fin­land Sun­day After­noon Films presents:

Let­ters to Father Jacob (Pos­tia pappi Jaakobille)

Win­ner of the 2010 Annual Finnish Jussi Film Awards
for Best Film, Direc­tor, Actor and Music
and awards at three Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­vals in 2009

Let­ters to Father Jacob fol­lows two won­der­ful, mov­ing char­ac­ters each on their own unusual path. The two paths cross when …

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“Flam­men” and “Cit­ro­nen” were the code names of two of Denmark’s most renowned resis­tance fight­ers in World War II. Flam­men og Cit­ro­nen (2007) depicts their com­plex char­ac­ters and moral ambi­gu­ity of their exploits.

Mads Bunch (Depart­ment of Cen­tral, East­ern, and North­ern Euro­pean Stud­ies, UBC) iwill be appear­ing at the view­ing to present an intro­duc­tion as well as com­men­tary, pro­vid­ing context …

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