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OFFICIAL SELECTION 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
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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 company Zik Zak Filmworks, [email protected] Iceland / Spain, 2017, 85 min., DCP Coproduction companies Entre Chien et Loup, Cinenic Films Iceland / Belgium / Sweden, 2017, 100 min., DCP
ALMA PLOEY – YOU NEVER MIHKEL by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir FLY ALONE by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon by Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson
After having witnessed her father’s brutal A plover chick who’s left behind when his Mihkel and Vera dream of moving to beautiful murder, three-year-old Alma and her mother family migrates must survive the harsh winter Iceland, a land of relative opportunity and fled their war-torn homeland and settled in in order to save his love from being killed by equality. Events take an unexpected turn, Iceland. Now, 25 years later, Alma is serving the vicious falcon the following spring. however, and Mihkel ends up being betrayed time in a psych ward for murdering her by his oldest friend, Igor. An epic and biblical Original title Lói – þú flýgur aldrei einn boyfriend, a crime she can’t remember. But Genre Animation / Family / Adventure tragedy based on real events. when she discovers the boyfriend is still alive, Director Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson (Undercurrent) Alma decides to escape and kill him after all. Codirectors Gunnar Karlsson, Ives Agemans Original title Halastjarnan Screenwriter Fridrik Erlingsson Genre Drama Director / Screenwriter Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon Original title Alma Editor Jón Stefánsson Music Atli Örvarsson (Rams, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Producers Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Kristinn Thórdarson, Genre Drama Leifur B. Dagfinnsson, Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon Director / Screenwriter Kristín Jóhannesdóttir (As in Heaven) Vantage Point) English cast Jamie Oram, Harriet Perring, Iain Stuart Robertson, Coproducers Evelin Soosaar-Penttila, Egil Ødegard Producer Gudrún Edda Thórhannesdóttir Director of photography Tómas Örn Tómasson Coproducers Anna G. Magnúsdóttir, Ilann Girard, Jim Stark, Richard Cotton, Thórunn Erna Clausen, Thomas Arnold Producers Hilmar Sigurdsson, Ives Agemans Editor Davíd Alexander Corno (Of Horses and Men) Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir Cast Atli Rafn Sigurdarson, Kaspar Velberg, Director of photography Ita Zbroniec-Zajt Production company GunHil, [email protected] Coproduction company Cyborn Tómas Lemarquis (X-Men: Apocalypse, Noi the Albino), Editor Máni Hrafnsson Paaru Oja Cast Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), Snæfridur Ingvarsdóttir, International sales ARRI Worldsales, www.arriworldsales.de Iceland / Belgium, 2017, 85 min., DCP Production companies Truenorth, [email protected], Snorri Engilbertsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hilmir Snær Gudnason Horizon Productions, Aumingja Ísland Production designer László Rajk Coproduction companies Amrion Production, Filmhuset Fiction (The Man from London, Son of Saul) Iceland / Estonia / Norway, 2017, 105 min., DCP Production company DUO Productions, [email protected] Coproduction companies Little Big Productions, Arsam International, J. Stark Films, Pegasus Pictures, Berserk Films Winter 2017 Iceland / Sweden / France / USA, 2017, 90 min., DCP WINTER BROTHERS WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT by Hlynur Pálmason by Mart Kivastik Minority coproductions
A brother odyssey set in a workers’ environment The morning after the worst day of her life, Viivi wakes up during a cold winter. We follow two brothers – their to find herself lying next to a strange man named Andu. routines, habits and rituals – and a violent feud that She discovers that he’s a bit of a nerd, but perhaps not erupts between them and another family. completely hopeless. In fact, he has a rather good heart.
Original title Vinterbrødre Original title Õnn tuleb magades Genre Drama Genre Drama Director / Screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason (Seven Boats, A Painter) Director / Screenwriter Mart Kivastik Producers Julie Waltersdorph Hansen, Per Damgaard Hansen Producer Anneli Ahven Coproducer Anton Máni Svansson Coproducers Birgitta Björnsdottir, Hlín Jóhannesdóttir Director of photography Maria von Hausswolff Director of photography Elen Lotman Editor Julius Krebs Damsbo Editors Kristján Lodmfjörd (Rams, Paris of the North, Either Way), Katri Rannastu Music Toke Odin Music Bardi Jóhannsson (Reykjavík Rotterdam) Cast Elliot Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Cast Katariina Unt, Ivo Uukkivi, Tiit Sukk, Katrin Pärn, Thór Túliníus Lars Mikkelsen, Birgit Thøt Jensen Production company Kopli Kinokompanii, [email protected] Production company Masterplan Pictures Coproduction company Vintage Pictures, [email protected], Coproduction company Join Motion Pictures, [email protected] [email protected] Denmark / Iceland, 2017, 95 min., DCP Estonia / Iceland, 2016, 90 min., DCP
OUT OF THIN AIR LA CHANA BASKAVÍGIN: THE SLAYING by Dylan Howitt by Lucija Stojevic OF THE BASQUE WHALERS by Aitor Aspe
In 1976 six young people confessed to two La Chana, a hugely successful flamenco In June 1615 Icelandic scholar Jón Gudmunds violent murders, in a country where such dancer, suddenly vanished from the public son the Learned awaits the arrival of 86 Basque crimes are almost unheard of. This was the eye at the height of her fame. As she prepares whalers to the shores of northern Iceland. biggest criminal investigation Iceland had ever for one final comeback performance, she What he doesn’t know is that their journey will seen, but no bodies were found, there were no retraces the highs and lows of her career and be fraught with peril, and that many of them will apparent motives and no credible witnesses. why it came to such an abrupt end. An intimate eventually be slaughtered in one of the biggest So why did these young people confess? portrait of a dynamic, eccentric woman who massacres in Icelandic history. elevated flamenco to a higher art form. Original title Out of Thin Air Original title Baskavígin: Genre Documentary Original title La Chana La Mantanza de los Balleneros Vascos Director / Screenwriter Dylan Howitt Genre Documentary Genre Documentary Codirector Óskar Jónasson (Reykjavík Rotterdam) Director Lucija Stojevic Director Aitor Aspe Producers Andy Glynne, Margrét Jónasdottir Producers Lucija Stojevic, Deirdre Thomas Screenwriter Aner Etxebarria Moral Director of photography Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson Coproducers Susan Muska, Gréta Ólafsdóttir Producer Katixa de Silva (Trapped, Of Horses and Men, The Deep) Director of photography Samuel Navarrete Coproducer Hjálmtýr Heiddal Editor Miikka Leskinen Editor Domi Parra Director of photography Jorge Roig Music Ólafur Arnalds (Broadchurch) Production company Noon Films Editor Aitor Aspe Cast Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir, Hinrik Kanneworff, Coproduction company Bless Bless Productions, Music Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (Children of Nature) Tumi Björnsson, Hjalti Steinar Gudmundsson, [email protected] Production company Old Port Films Arnar Hauksson, Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, International sales East Village Entertainment (USA, Canada), Coproduction company Seylan, [email protected] Tómas Kolbeinn Georgs, Steinthór Hróar Steinthórsson [email protected], Cat & Docs (rest of Spain / Iceland, 2016, 70 min., DCP Production companies Mosaic, Sagafilm, [email protected] world), [email protected] UK / Iceland, 2017, 90 min., DCP Spain / Iceland / USA, 2016, 55 min. / 82 min., DCP
PRISONERS HULLI 2 THE MAYOR by Ragnar Bragason by Hugleikur Dagsson Created by Jón Gnarr TV series
After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is Hulli is the cartoon version of Hugleikur A humorous take on the everyday comings and sentenced to Iceland’s only women’s prison Dagsson, a popular Icelandic cartoonist and goings of a middle-aged mayor, with unique for a vicious assault that leaves her father in a the show’s creator. Hulli lives in a cartoon insight into the wheelings and dealings at the coma. But no one knows that she harbors a Reykjavík and hangs with his cartoon friends. heart of municipal politics. dark secret that could tear her family apart His career is in decline. His filthy cartoon Original title Borgarstjórinn – and set her free. books, which used to be his main source of Genre Comedy income, are no longer selling. That’s because Directors Rannveig Gagga Jónsdóttir, María Reyndal, Jón Gnarr Original title Fangar kids today don’t read. They watch. Screenwriters Jón Gnarr, Hrefna Lind Heimisdóttir, Genre Crime / Drama Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon Director Ragnar Bragason (Metalhead, Mr. Bjarnfredarson) Created by Jón Gnarr Screenwriters Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, Ragnar Bragason, Original title Hulli 2 Genre Animation / Comedy Producers Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson, Baltasar Kormákur Jóhann Ævar Grímsson Coproducer Sigurjón Kjartansson Based on an idea by Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir, Director Hugleikur Dagsson (Hulli) Screenwriters Hugleikur Dagsson, Director of photography Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir (Trapped, Of Horses and Men, The Deep) Producers Davíd Óskar Ólafsson, Árni Filippusson Anna Svava Knútsdóttir, Thormódur Dagsson Producers Björn Thórir Sigurdsson, Baltasar Kormákur, Editor Jakob Halldórsson (Last Days of the Arctic) Director of photography Árni Filippusson (Either Way) Cast Jón Gnarr, Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon, Helga Braga Jónsdóttir Editor Valdís Óskarsdóttir (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Sigurjón Kjartansson, Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson Cast Hugleikur Dagsson, Anna Svava Knútsdóttir, Production company RVK Studios, [email protected] Mind, The Celebration), Sverrir Kristjánsson (The Deep, Iceland, 2016, 10 × 30 min., HD Mr. Bjarnfredarson), Sigurdur Eythórsson Thormódur Dagsson, Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir, Music Pétur Ben (Metalhead, Mr. Bjarnfredarson) Árni Vilhjálmsson, Sigurjón Kjartansson Cast Thora Bjorg Helga, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Production company RVK Studios, [email protected] Kristbjörg Kjeld, Sigurdur Karlsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Iceland, 2017, 8 × 20 min., HD Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir Production company Mystery Productions, [email protected] Coproduction company Vesturport Iceland, 2017, 6 × 50 min., DCP
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