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Films fr m Iceland OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL HEARTSTONE THE OATH 2016 by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson by Baltasar Kormákur Features A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor Finnur is a successful heart surgeon and father of two. and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one His family’s life begins to unravel when his daughter, tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers Anna, gets mixed up with a manipulative, drug-dealing new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends boyfriend. As the boyfriend’s grip tightens around and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, Anna and the entire family, Finnur is forced to take it’s time to leave the playground and face adulthood. drastic measures. Original title Hjartasteinn Original title Eiðurinn Genre Drama Genre Drama / Thriller Director / Screenwriter Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson Director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, The Deep, Jar City) (Whale Valley, Ártún) Screenwriters Ólafur Egill Egilsson, Baltasar Kormákur Producers Anton Máni Svansson, Lise Orheim Stender, Producers Baltasar Kormákur, Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson Jesper Morthorst, Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson Director of photography Óttar Gudnason Director of photography Sturla Brandth Grøvlen (Victoria, Rams) (A Little Trip to Heaven, Inhale) Editors Anne Østerud (Jagten, Män som hatar kvinnor), Janus Billeskov Jansen Editor Sigvaldi J. Kárason (Mamma Gógó, Trapped) (Zappa, Jagten, The Act of Killing) Music Hildur Gudnadóttir (A Hijacking) Music Kristian Eidnes Andersen (Ida, Antichrist) Cast Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Gardarsson Cast Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir, Katla Njálsdóttir, Production company RVK Studios, [email protected] Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Gunnar Jónsson, In collaboration with Film4, ZDF, ZDFE Søren Malling, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir International sales XYZ Films, [email protected] Production companies Join Motion Pictures, Iceland, 2016, 110 min., DCP [email protected]; SF Studios Production International sales Films Boutique, [email protected] Iceland / Denmark, 2016, 129 min., DCP UNDER THE TREE SUMMER CHILDREN by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson by Gudrún Ragnarsdóttir In postproduction A big, beautiful tree stands at the center of a quarrel The siblings Eydís and Kári are only five and six years old between neighbors that grows increasingly absurd when their parents’ marriage breaks apart. As their mother and violent. struggles to find her footing following the divorce, they are sent Original title Undir trénu temporarily to a children’s home in the countryside. But their Genre Drama Director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson (Either Way, Paris of the North) stay there turns out to be longer than they had ever imagined. Screenwriters Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson, Huldar Breidfjörd (Paris of the North) Producers Grímar Jónsson, Sindri Páll Kjartansson, Thor Sigurjonsson Original title Sumarbörn Coproducers Klaudia Smieja, Beata Rzezniczek, Jacob Jarek, Genre Drama / Family Caroline Schluter Bingestam, Ditte Milsted Director / Screenwriter Gudrún Ragnarsdóttir Director of photography Monika Lenczewska Producers Anna María Karlsdóttir, Hrönn Kristinsdóttir Editor Kristján Lodmfjörd (Rams, Paris of the North, Either Way) Coproducer Egil Ødegard Music Daníel Bjarnason Director of photography Ásgrímur Gudbjartsson Cast Steindi Jr., Sigurdur Sigurjónsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Editor Davíd Alexander Corno (Of Horses and Men) Thorsteinn Bachmann, Selma Björnsdóttir Music Kira Kira, Hermigervill Production company Netop Films, [email protected] Cast Kristjana Thors, Stefán Örn Eggertsson, Brynhildur Gudjónsdóttir Coproduction companies Madants, Profile Pictures Production company Ljósband, [email protected], [email protected] International sales New Europe Film Sales, [email protected] Coproduction company Filmhuset Fiction Iceland / Poland / Denmark, 2017, 90 min., DCP Iceland / Norway, 2017, 84 min., DCP I REMEMBER YOU THE SWAN by Óskar Thór Axelsson by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir Three young people from the city set out to restore a A wayward nine-year-old girl is sent to the rundown building in a remote fjord. When a sinister countryside one summer to work and to mature, supernatural entity appears, their innocent trip turns but she soon finds herself deeply entangled in into their worst nightmare. Meanwhile, on the other a drama she can hardly grasp. side of the fjord, a psychiatrist investigating a suicide Original title Svanurinn Genre Drama discovers that the case is connected to his own son, Director / Screenwriter Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir (Love Story) who vanished three years earlier. Based on a novel by Gudbergur Bergsson Producers Birgitta Björnsdóttir, Hlín Jóhannesdóttir Original title Ég man þig Coproducers Verena Gräfe-Höft, Anneli Ahven Genre Thriller Director of photography Martin Neumeyer Director Óskar Thór Axelsson (Black’s Game) Editor Sebastian Thumler Screenwriters Óskar Thór Axelsson, Ottó Geir Borg Cast Gríma Valsdóttir, Thor Kristjansson, Blær Jóhannsdóttir, Based on a novel by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Katla Margrét Thorgeirsdóttir Producers Skúli Malmquist, Thor Sigurjonsson, Sigurjón Sighvatsson Production company Vintage Pictures, [email protected], Director of photography Jakob Ingimundarson [email protected] Editor Kristján Lodmfjörd (Rams, Paris of the North, Either Way) Coproduction companies Junafilm, Kopli Kinokompanii Cast Anna Gunndís Gudmundsdóttir, Thor Kristjansson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Iceland / Germany / Estonia, 2017, 95 min., DCP Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson Production company Zik Zak Filmworks, [email protected] International sales TrustNordisk, [email protected] Iceland, 2017, 110 min., DCP RIFT CARCASS CRUELTY OFFICIAL SELECTION by Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen by Gústav Geir Bollason, Clémentine Roy by Anton Sigurdsson Two men in a secluded cabin are haunted by In a hostile environment without modern When two young girls disappear from their dead relationship. technology, a small island community must a playground, the two best detectives learn to survive. They engineer new farming on the police force try to solve the case. Original title Rökkur and transportation solutions by recycling Genre Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Horror Original title Grimmd Director / Screenwriter Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen defunct machinery. In this timeless, hybrid Genre Crime / Drama / Thriller Producers Baldvin Kári Sveinbjörnsson, Búi Baldvinsson, world, the present finds a renewed relationship Director / Screenwriter Anton Sigurdsson Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen to the past, and to the rugged landscape. Producers Haraldur Bender, Anton Sigurdsson, Coproducers James Huntsman, Todd Slater Erlingur Jack Gudmundsson, Arnar Benjamín Kristjánsson Director of photography John Wakayama Carey Original title Carcasse Director of photography Árni Filippusson (Either Way) Editor Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen Editors Ragnar Vald Ragnarsson, Árni Freyr Haraldsson Music Einar Sv. Tryggvason Genre Experimental Directors / Screenwriters Gústav Geir Bollason, Clémentine Roy Music Kristján Sturla Bjarnason Cast Björn Stefánsson, Sigurdur Thór Óskarsson, Cast Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson, Adalbjörg Árnadóttir, Gudmundur Ólafsson Producers Clémentine Roy, Gústav Geir Bollason Directors of photography Clémentine Roy, Gústav Geir Bollason Salóme Gunnarsdóttir, Atli Rafn Sigurdarson, Production companies Myrkraverk Productions, Pétur Óskar Sigurdsson, Helgi Björnsson, Hero Productions, [email protected] Editor Ninon Liotet Cast Lene Zachariassen, Sverrir Möller Hilmir Snær Gudnason International sales Blue Fox Entertainment, Production company Virgo Films, [email protected] [email protected] Production company Parkadia, [email protected] Iceland / France, 2017, 60 min., DCP International sales LevelK, [email protected] Iceland, 2017, 109 min., DCP Iceland, 2016, 104 min., DCP AND BREATHE NORMALLY THE WIND BLEW ON @HAUGESUND by Ísold Uggadóttir by Katrín Ólafsdóttir CUT!Give life to your project. At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two In this post-apocalyptic western with musical women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment elements, a young boy journeys across a deserted – while trapped in unforeseen circumstances. An planet in search of a forest – a promised land intimate bond will form between an Icelandic mother symbolizing his fantasies of adulthood. The unsettling and a refugee from Guinea-Bissau as both strategize landscapes he crosses, and the enigmatic figures he in private to get their lives back on track. encounters, teach him how to become who he is. Iceland from Films Original title And Breathe Normally Original title The Wind Blew On Genre Drama Genre Western / Drama Director / Screenwriter Ísold Uggadóttir Director / Screenwriter Katrín Ólafsdóttir Producer Skúli Malmquist Producers Katrín Ólafsdóttir, Eva Sigurdardóttir Coproducers Diana Elbaum, Annika Hellström, Directors of photography Arnar Thórisson, Mauro Herce, Jimmi Gimferrer Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir, Inga Lind Karlsdóttir Cast Flóki Molina, Elina Löwensohn, Oliver Laxe, Josh T. Pearson, Director of photography Ita Zbroniec-Zajt Tereza Hofova, Atli Rafn Sigurdsson Editor Frédérique Broos Production companies International Incoherence, [email protected], Cast Kristín Thóra Haraldsdóttir, Babetida Sadjo, Patrik Nökkvi Pétursson Askja Films, [email protected] Production