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Finnur is a successful heart surgeon and father of two. His family’s life begins to unravel when his daughter, Anna, gets mixed up with a manipulative, drug-dealing boyfriend. As the boyfriend’s grip tightens around Anna and the entire family, Finnur is forced to take drastic measures. Original title Eiðurinn Genre Drama / Thriller Director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, The Deep, Jar City) Screenwriters Ólafur Egill Egilsson, Baltasar Kormákur Producers Baltasar Kormákur, Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson Director of photography Óttar Gudnason (A Little Trip to Heaven, Inhale) Editor Sigvaldi J. Kárason (Mamma Gógó, Trapped) Music Hildur Gudnadóttir (A Hijacking) Cast Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Gardarsson Production company RVK Studios, [email protected] In collaboration with Film4, ZDF, ZDFE International sales XYZ Films, [email protected] Iceland, 2016, 110 min., DCP
I REMEMBER YOU THE WIND BLEW ON @HAUGESUND by Óskar Thór Axelsson by Katrín Ólafsdóttir
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Three young people from the city set out to restore a In this post-apocalyptic western with musical elements, rundown building in a remote fjord. When a sinister a young boy journeys across a deserted planet in search supernatural entity appears, their innocent trip turns of a forest – a promised land symbolizing his fantasies of into their worst nightmare. Meanwhile, on the other adulthood. The unsettling landscapes he crosses, and side of the fjord, a psychiatrist investigating a suicide the enigmatic figures he encounters, teach him how to Iceland from Films discovers that the case is connected to his own son, become who he is.
who vanished three years earlier. Original title The Wind Blew On Genre Western Original title Ég man þig Director / Screenwriter Katrín Ólafsdóttir Genre Thriller Producers Katrín Ólafsdóttir, Eva Sigurdardóttir Director Óskar Thór Axelsson (Black’s Game) Directors of photography Arnar Thórisson, Mauro Herce, Jimmi Gimferrer Screenwriters Óskar Thór Axelsson, Ottó Geir Borg Cast Flóki Molina, Elina Löwensohn, Oliver Laxe, Josh T. Pearson, Based on a novel by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir Tereza Hofova, Atli Rafn Sigurdsson Producers: Skúli Malmquist, Thor Sigurjonsson, Sigurjón Sighvatsson Production company International Incoherence, [email protected], Director of photography Jakob Ingimundarson Askja Films, [email protected] Editor Kristján Lodmfjörd (Rams, Paris of the North, Either Way) Iceland / Spain, 2017, 85 min., DCP Cast Anna Gunndís Gudmundsdóttir, Thor Kristjansson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson Production company: Zik Zak Filmworks, [email protected] Iceland, 2017, 100 min., DCP
CHILD EATER WINTER BROTHERS by Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen by Hlynur Pálmason Minority coproductions
A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn A brother odyssey set in a workers’ environment when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little during a cold winter. We follow two brothers – their Lucas’s closet. routines, habits and rituals – and a violent feud that
Original title Child Eater erupts between them and another family. Genre Horror Director / Screenwriter Erlingur Óttar Thoroddsen Original title Vinterbrødre Producers Perri Nemiroff, Luke Spears Genre Drama Coproducers Pétur Sigurdsson, Des McAnuff Director / Screenwriter Hlynur Pálmason (Seven Boats) Music Einar Sv. Tryggvason Producer Julie Waltersdorph Hansen, Per Damgaard Hansen Cast Cait Bliss, Colin Critchley, Jason Martin, James Wilcox Coproducer Anton Máni Svansson Production company Black Stork Productions Director of photography Maria von Hausswolff Coproduction company Wheelhouse Creative Editor Julius Krebs Damsbo International sales BoulderLight Pictures, [email protected] Music Toke Odin USA / Iceland, 2016, 82 min., DCP Cast Elliot Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lars Mikkelsen, Birgit Thøt Jensen Production company Masterplan Pictures Coproduction company Join Motion Pictures, [email protected] Denmark / Iceland, 2017, 100 min., DCP Autumn 2016 THE MAYOR PRISONERS Created by Jón Gnarr by Ragnar Bragason TV postproduction series in A humorous take on the everyday comings and goings After a lifetime of mistakes, Linda is sentenced to of a middle-aged mayor, with unique insight into the Iceland’s only women’s prison for a vicious assault that wheelings and dealings at the heart of municipal leaves her father in a coma. But no one knows that she politics. harbors a dark secret that could tear her family apart
Original title Borgarstjórinn – and set her free. Genre Comedy Directors Rannveig Gagga Jónsdóttir, María Reyndal, Jón Gnarr Original title Fangar Screenwriters Jón Gnarr, Hrefna Lind Heimisdóttir, Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon Genre Crime / Drama Created by Jón Gnarr Director Ragnar Bragason (Metalhead , Mr. Bjarnfredarson) Producers Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson, Baltasar Kormákur Screenwriters Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, Ragnar Bragason, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson Coproducer Sigurjón Kjartansson Based on an idea by Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir Director of photography Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson (Trapped, Of Horses and Men, The Deep) Producers Davíd Óskar Ólafsson, Árni Filippusson 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 Mind, The Celebration), Production company RVK Studios, [email protected] Sverrir Kristjánsson (The Deep, Mr. Bjarnfredarson), Sigurdur Eythórsson Iceland, 2017, 10 × 30 min., HD Music Pétur Ben (Metalhead, Mr. Bjarnfredarson) Main cast Thora Bjorg Helga, Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Sigurdur Karlsson, Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir, Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir, Production company Mystery Productions, [email protected] Coproduction company Vesturport Iceland, 2016, 6 × 50 min., DCP HULLI 2 by Hugleikur Dagsson
Hulli is the cartoon version of Hugleikur Dagsson, a popular Icelandic cartoonist and the show’s creator. Hulli lives in a cartoon Reykjavík and hangs with his cartoon friends. His career is in decline. His filthy cartoon books, which used to be his main source of income, are no longer selling. That’s because kids today don’t read. They watch.
Original title Hulli 2 Genre Animation / Comedy Director Hugleikur Dagsson (Hulli) Screenwriters Hugleikur Dagsson, Anna Svava Knútsdóttir, Thormódur Dagsson Producer Björn Thórir Sigurdsson Executive producers Baltasar Kormákur, Sigurjón Kjartansson, Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson Cast Hugleikur Dagsson, Anna Svava Knútsdóttir, Thormódur Dagsson, Lóa Hjálmtýsdóttir, Árni Vilhjálmsson, Sigurjón Kjartansson Production company RVK Studios, [email protected] Iceland, 2017, 8 × 20 min., HD
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