SSF presents: Nordic Witch night

The Student Society’s Film Club is marking the dark months with three classic witch films that highlight the Nordic perspective. We’ll be showing three films, each offering a very different take on the dark arts. If you’ve ever considered selling your soul—or even marrying the devil—this is something you won’t want to miss.

Häxan (1922)

Year of production: 1922
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Country: Sweden
Duration: 1h 45m
Time: 18:00 – 19:45

Benjamin Christensen’s fictional documentary, inspired by the 15th-century book Malleus Maleficarum, tells the story of witch persecutions in Europe. The film uses a variety of visual effects and dramatic scenes to depict medieval witchcraft and questions the link between witch hunts and mental illness. Häxan remains to this day a powerful cult classic, standing out both among 1920s films and in our modern era.

The Stone Wood Witches (1976)

Year of production: 1976
Director: Bredo Greve
Country: Norway
Duration: 1h 32m
Time: 20:00 – 21:32

The Witches from the Petrified Forest is an anarchistic fable about a woman who chooses to live as a witch in Oslo, 1976. The protagonist, Gro, becomes part of a coven living in close harmony with nature, rejecting modern society. Using their inner powers, the witches learn to hunt, seduce, and manipulate both time and space. The film’s program booklet described it as “the first witch film on the witches’ own terms” and it is openly critical of property rights and Christianity—something that led several Norwegian cinema owners to refuse to screen it.

The Juniper Tree (1990)

Year of production: 1990
Director: Nietzchka Keene
Country: USA
Duration: 1h 19m
Time: 21:47 – 23:06

The Juniper Tree marks Björk’s film debut and is based on the dark Grimm Brothers’ tale of the same name. Two Icelandic sisters, Margit and Katla, flee their home after their mother is stoned and burned for witchcraft. They travel far from home and encounter the widower Jóhann and his son Jónas. Katla enchants Jóhann, and the sisters move in with him and his son. Envy, suspicion, and witchcraft gnaw at the fragile new family, and it soon becomes clear that dark forces threaten to destroy the bond between them. The Juniper Tree is a poetic and somber film exploring grief, magic, and the search for belonging in a world haunted by superstition and fear.

Tickets available at the door:
Film Club members (NFK): 40 NOK
Non-members: 100 NOK (includes NFK film club membership + free entry to the first screening)
We also sell Super Memberships for 200 NOK, which include NFK membership and free entry to all Student Society Film Club screenings this semester.

Doors open: 17:45
Entrance: Glass entrance