Established in 2012, West Side Cinema offers the edge of world cinema in a relaxed and social atmosphere – themed music, cabaret style table seating and you can ‘bring your own’ drinks and snacks.

SAT 16 MAY - SONGS OF EARTH (E)
In collaboration with ORKNEY NATURE FESTIVAL
and celebrating MAY 17 NORWEGIAN CONSTITUTION DAY

The mountainous landscapes of Norway provide the monumental backdrop for this cinematic nature experience. A magnificent, existential journey with the filmmaker’s parents as its human yardstick, and with the primordial forces of the earth looming in the bedrock.

In Norway’s official selection for the Academy Awards, Director Margreth Olin has created a stunning, cinematic work about life, death, nature and about simply being present in the world. With her native Norway’s dizzyingly beautiful mountain landscapes as its monumental backdrop, Olin embarks on an existential journey with her own ageing parents as the human yardstick out in the vast expanses. Here, their family has always lived side by side with nature. Even when the earth’s primordial forces have shown their most merciless side. Her parents’ love and lifelong loyalty bear quiet witness to how surroundings and inner space resonate with each other. But not even the most rock-solid mountain is unchanging – and certainly not in times like ours. The level of detail in Olin’s lyrical and visionary poem to her homeland is almost beyond anything seen on the big screen. And that is most definitely where ‘Songs of Earth’ should be experienced.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzJws8GbUQ

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