Viaplay May 2026 Schedule Announced
Viaplay has announced the titles that will be available on the service in May. The Viaplay May 2026 schedule includes the final season of the award-winning Black Sands, the music documentary S10, the award-winning workplace dark comedy Welfare Warriors, the poignant family drama Keep It Together, and two European films.
The Viaplay streaming service features thousands of hours of premium Nordic and European series and films from Scandinavia’s largest and most recognized television/streaming platform.
Viaplay’s US content offering focuses on the Nordic region’s high-quality, psychologically penetrating titles: from atmospheric, suspenseful crime dramas and provocative, stylish young adult series to award-winning dramas and riveting documentaries.
Viaplay is available as an add-on subscription on Prime Video Channels, The Roku Channel, Comcast Xfinity, and more. All titles are available in their original language with English subtitles.
VIAPLAY MAY 2026 SCHEDULE
Available May 7
The Mine (Jättiläinen) – Feature Film
A young and ambitious civil servant, Jussi, finds himself in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic, globe-trotting visionary, Pekka Perä, is introducing an entirely new method of mineral extraction whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia.
Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not foresee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed up.
A new application for another permit is brought to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi must decide whether he will play along and, if so, with whom. (2016, 93 mins, Finnish with English subtitles)
Welfare Warriors (Sisäilmaa) – Award-winning Workplace Dark Comedy Series (Exclusive U.S. Premiere)
This darkly comic workplace drama won three ‘Finnish Emmys’ (Golden Venla Awards) for Best Drama Series, Best Actress, and Best Actor. When her workplace – an employment agency – is haunted, threatened by mold contamination, and crushed under impossible performance targets, service manager Anneli Tiainen (Elina Knihtilä, The Beast Must Die) turns to increasingly bizarre remedies.
But when one misstep spirals into chaos, Anneli must confront not only the strange phenomena invading her office – ghosts, visions, and creeping mold – but the collapse of her own mental stability. As the walls of the welfare state begin to literally crumble around her, Anneli faces a choice: give up or risk everything.
Welfare Warriors is a bold, genre-blending comedy drama that mixes biting social satire with psychological suspense, offering a uniquely Finnish take on workplace burnout, public service pressure, and the absurdity of modern bureaucracy. (3 x 60 mins episodes, Finnish with English subtitles)
Available May 12
S10 (Stien) – Music Feature Documentary on Dutch superstar and Eurovision singer (Exclusive U.S. Premiere)
As the excitement builds for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in mid-May, Viaplay debuts a powerful new feature documentary, S10 (Stien). The fascinating film shares the highs and lows of Dutch singer-songwriter Stien den Hollander, known as S10, who represented the Netherlands in Eurovision 2022.
With comparisons to Billie Eilish and nearly a million monthly listeners on Spotify, the internationally acclaimed, charismatic hip-hop phenomenon S10 has been hailed as a defining voice of her generation.
Signed at just 16-years-old to Noah’s Ark record label and adopting the moniker S10, she made a rapid rise to fame with her raw, genre-defying sound and deeply personal lyrics shaped by her challenging experiences with mental health and a complicated upbringing. Painfully honest and powerful, her songs have become a way to channel her feelings and those of many in her generation who share the same struggle.
For this intimate documentary, Stien was followed for several years, from her greatest performance in front of two hundred million people at the Eurovision Song Contest to her most vulnerable moments at home and her ongoing struggles with her past.
Directed by Linda Hakeboom and Rolf Hartogensis, this poignant and emotionally charged film captures a thought-provoking portrait of a bold, young artist as she overcomes mental health crises and takes her career to the global stage, including exclusive behind-the-scenes access, from songwriting to her standout stage performances. (Feature Documentary 70 mins, 2024, Dutch with English subtitles)
Available May 14
Black Sands Season 2 / Final Season (Svörtu sandar) – Award-winning Nordic Noir returns with final season (Exclusive U.S. Premiere – two episodes weekly)
Showcasing Nordic noir at its very best with eighteen television award nominations in Iceland, Black Sands (Svörtu sandar) returns with another riveting and final eight-part season.
Featuring beautiful cinematography around Iceland’s famous black sands, the dark crime drama’s first season followed a troubled police officer (Aldis Amah Hamilton, Netflix’s The Valhalla Murders) forced back to her hometown, who soon begins tracking a serial killer who has been operating for years, disguising murders as accidents.
During the bleak Arctic winter, Season 2 picks up fourteen months after the Black Sands tragedy, where the survivors are still haunted by the revelation that a beloved resident was a serial killer.
The mystery deepens with the strange death of an elderly woman, Helena, and another shocking murder. As the investigation unfolds, the town’s dark history of abuse and negligence is revealed, exposing that their serial killer was just one part of a much larger, insidious secret. (8 episodes by 45 minutes; Icelandic with English subtitles)
Available May 21
Keep It Together (Hålla samman) – Family Dramedy (Exclusive U.S. Premiere)
This moving and humor-filled new Swedish comedy drama follows two sisters forced to face the past and a new family reality when their father receives a life-changing diagnosis.
When Kenneth (Lennart Jähkel, The Hunters), a retired bus driver in a small town in Sweden, learns that he has Alzheimer’s, his two adult daughters must confront not only his decline, but also how to navigate their own relationship. Lina (Michaela Thorsén, Riding in Darkness), a single mother and overworked nurse, suddenly finds herself having to house her unpredictable father.
Petra (Ulrika Nilsson, The Congregation), the responsible older sister with a picture-perfect family, insists on structure and control. The sisters couldn’t be more different, and they rarely agree on anything – except that they love their dad.
Keep It Together explores the chaos of caregiving, sibling rivalry, and the bittersweet comedy of everyday life. With sharp dialogue, relatable family dynamics, and laugh-out-loud moments of absurdity, the series balances heartbreak and humor. This is a story about holding on – to family, to dignity, and to each other – when everything seems to be falling apart. (8 x 29 mins episodes, Swedish with English subtitles)
Available May 28
5 Women (5 Frauen) – Feature Film
A group of female friends meets every year, for a relaxing break and to get away from it all in the south of France, but this year’s trip takes a dark turn… All is going well until one night, when they’re all on a crazy drug trip, a man breaks into the house, and in the mayhem, they kill the intruder and decide to hide the body.
As darkness descends, a mysterious man appears out of nowhere, searching for his missing brother. Scared and confused, the woman must tolerate his presence, and as sexual attractions deepen, tensions rise, and a palpable danger hangs in the air. (2017, 98 mins, German and French with English subtitles)
