WINTER 2020 ICELANDIC FEATURES, ICELANDIC TV SERIES, ICELANDIC DOCUMENTARIES & ICELANDIC SHORTS FEATURES Director/Screenwriter Jóhann Jóhannsson Last and First Men Producers Jóhann Jóhannsson, Thor S. Sigurjónsson, Sturla Brandth Grøvlen by Jóhann Jóhannsson Production company Zik Zak Filmworks Cast Tilda Swinton The film explores zones of decay and ruin where great tragedies have occurred – places charged Genre Experimental science fiction Iceland with symbolism. Throughout the film we sense 2020, 70 min., DCP a spectral presence, an entity that is attempting Sales contact to communicate with us. Thor S. Sigurjónsson (
[email protected]) FEATURES Director/Screenwriter Ragnar Bragason (Metalhead) The Garden Producer Davíd Óskar Ólafsson Coproducer Beata Rzeźniczek by Ragnar Bragason Production company Mystery Productions Coproduction company Madants Cast Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Indíana Jónsdóttir lives in a large apartment block Hallgrímur Ólafsson, Karolina Gruszka full of immigrants, whom she despises, and makes Genre Drama her living by preying upon the public welfare Iceland/Poland system. In her small private garden, she tends to 2020, 115 min., DCP her award-winning laburnum tree. When her only Sales contact son turns up with a foreign girlfriend, Indíana’s Davíd Óskar Ólafsson (
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