At a small dance studio in Reykjavík drummers and dancers from Guinea, West-Africa, teach Icelandic women to move to the rhythm and dance the traditional African dance.
Credits:
Director: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Co-producer: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
Cinematographer: Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
Sound designer: Björn Viktorsson
Script: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Support: The Icelandic Film Center, RÚV
As residents of a remote Icelandic town look forward to the construction of a long-awaited tunnel, they recall experiences of travelling over the beautiful yet frightening mountain plateau.
Credits:
Director: Jessica Auer
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Co-producer: Marina Gumzi
Cinematographer: Darko Sintic
Editor: Kristján Loðmfjörð
Sound designer: Björn Viktorsson
Scipt: Jessica Auer
Support: The Icelandic Film Center, RÚV,
The film takes its departure in a vibrant circus that serves as a vital refuge for hundreds of children in one of the world‘s most war-torn countries, Afghanistan. Told through the eyes of two young protagonists, it gives a unique and intimate look at what it‘s like to grow up under the Taliban regime. The story explores the complex transition from childhood to adulthood, capturing the stark realities faced by both girls and boys in a country marked by conflict.
Credits:
Director: Camille Bildsoe
Producer: Sofie Husum Johannesen
Co-producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Production companies: Elk Film, Akkeri Films, Point of View
Cinematographer: Jonas Skovbjerg Fogh
Editor: Signe Rebekka Kaufman
Sound designer: Björn Viktorsson
Composer:
Support: Danish Film Institute, The Icelandic Film Center, DR, RÚV, NRK, SVT, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, Creative Europe Media.
An experimental documentary on the culture surrounding the sacred plant medicine coca and tobacco. Although they are both integral to the spiritual and daily life of Amazonian Indigenous tribes, they are misunderstood, abused and virtually unknown by Western culture.
Credits:
Director: Thorbjorg Jonsdottir
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Co-producer: Benjamin Poumey
Cinematographer: Patrick Tresch
Sound designer: Björn Viktorsson
Scipt: Thorbjorg Jonsdottir
Support: The Icelandic Film Center, RÚV
A sensitive, warm and humoristic film capturing the essence of life when the end is near.
Synopsis
Winter turns to summer that turns to winter and, maybe, to summer again, for a group of elderly people living together in a grand old building in Reykjavík. It is an institution, but also a home. Some have lived a lifetime that spans almost a century.
Director: Yrsa Roca Fannberg
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Co-producer: Malgorzata Staron
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staron
Editor: Federico Delpero Bejar
Sound designer: Björn Viktorsson
Foley: Heikki Kossi
Composer: Skúli Sverrisson
Scipt: Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Elín Agla Briem
Color: Aneta Ptak
Graphic design: Ingi Kristján Sigurmarsson
Support: The Icelandic Film Center, The Polish Film Fund, RÚV, YLE, Nordisk Film & TV Fund, Eurimages.
Premiere: CHP:DOX
A sequel to Two Years At Sea (2011), charting a subtly changing life of Jake Williams, in a radically changing world.
Bogancloch is where modern day hermit Jake Williams lives, nestled in a vast highland forest of Scotland. The film portrays his life throughout the seasons, with other people occasionally crossing into his otherwise solitary life. At the heart a song, an argument between life and death, each stating their case to rule over the world. The film is without exposition, it aims at something less recognisable, to a different existence of reality observed in discrete moments. A sequel to Two Years at Sea (2011), charting a subtly changing life in a radically changing world.
Director: Ben Rivers
Producer: John Archer, Sarah Neely, Ben Rivers
Co-producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir, Zsuzsanna Kiraly
Cinematographer: Ben Rivers
Editor: Ben Rivers
Sound designer: Chu-Li Shewring, Björn Viktorsson
Colorist: Ivan Markovic
Support: Screen Scotland, Medienboard Experimental Fund, The Icelandic Film Center,
World Sales: Rediance
Premiere: Locarno Film Festival
Vagus Symphony is an experimental poetic short film, an abstract journey without words from the primordial bang to epiphany through the seven continents of the body.
Synopsis
The viewer is taken on a visual – sound journey with the aim to activate the biggest nerve in the human body, the vagus nerve, a system of nerves that connects all vital bodily organs and when in balance promotes glimmers in the soul and encourages empathy across all cultural hierarchies in an increasingly isolated, unequal and polarized world. Vagus Symphony is a collaboration between The Icelandic Love Corporation, music composers Ólafur Björn Ólafsson & Una Sveinbjarnardóttir and The Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Director: The Icelandic Love Corporation: Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Co-producer: Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir
Cinematographer: Anní Ólafsdóttir
Editor: Sighvatur Ómar Kristinsson
Composer: Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson
Colorist: Eggert Baldvinsson, Trickshot
Costume design: Alexía Rós Gylfadóttir
Makeup: Tinna Ingimarsdóttir
In collboration with: Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Cast: Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir
Support: Icelandic Film Center, Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, Reykjavik Culture Fund
Premiere: Stockfish Film Festival
Vagus Symphony is an experimental poetic short film, an abstract journey without words from the primordial bang to epiphany through the seven continents of the body.
Synopsis
The viewer is taken on a visual – sound journey with the aim to activate the biggest nerve in the human body, the vagus nerve, a system of nerves that connects all vital bodily organs and when in balance promotes glimmers in the soul and encourages empathy across all cultural hierarchies in an increasingly isolated, unequal and polarized world. Vagus Symphony is a collaboration between The Icelandic Love Corporation, music composers Ólafur Björn Ólafsson & Una Sveinbjarnardóttir and The Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Director: Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir
Scipt: Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir, Sóley Stefánsdóttir
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Cinematographer: Anton Smári Gunnarsson
Editor: Kristján Loðmfjörð
Composer: Sóley Stefánsdóttir
Sound design: Björn Viktorsson
Colorist: Luis Ascani, Trickshot
Production design: Dóra Hrund Gísladóttir
Costume design: Karen Briem
Makeup: Tinna Ingimarsdóttir
Cast: Sóley Stefánsdóttir, Úlfhildur
Support: Icelandic Film Center, Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, Reykjavik Culture Fund
Premiere: Stockfish Film Festival
When We Are Born is a unique live performance film about how we connect — not only to each other, but also the world around us
Synopsis
Directed by Vincent Moon (Mathieu ‘Moon’ Saura) and written by Ólafur Arnalds and Vincent Moon, the film features contributions of an unparalleled creative collective including choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir, Iceland Dance Company and cinematographer Thor Eliasson. Performed and recorded live on set through a series of one-shot takes, Vincent Moon’s intimate cinematic vision brings this layered metaphorical world to life as we follow our protagonist’s (Ólafur Arnalds) experiences, manifested and symbolised all around him through dance, live music and sound design. With themes of rituals, relationships and exploration of our inner landscapes, this is a film focused on how we all move forward.
Director: Mathieu Moon Saura
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir, Árni Þór Árnason, Eva Moari, Stefan Demetriou
Cinematographer: Þór Elíasson
Editor: Vincent Moon
Sound design: Ólafur Arnalds
Composer: Ólafur Arnalds
Scipt: Mathieu Moon Saura & Ólafur Arnalds
In collaboration with: Iceland Dance Company
Production: Mercury Studios, Petites Planetes, Ólafur Arnalds, Akkeri Films
A desolate farm, pushed up against the Arctic ocean has been breeding sheep for centuries. This is the last autumn they herd their sheep down from the surrounding mountains.
Synopsis
More than a thousand autumns ago, humans arrived with their animals to a land pushed up against the Arctic Ocean. Autumns came and autumns went. Where the road ends, Úlfar, the last in a long line of farmers, lives with his wife. As autumn returns their grandchildren arrive from the city to attend the last herding of the flock. Next autumn farming will cease and all the sheep will be gone, but the landscape pushed up against the Arctic Ocean will continue to tell about that one Last Autumn.
Director: Yrsa Roca Fannberg
Producer: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Cinematographer: Carlos Vásquez Méndez
Editor: Federico Delpero Bejar
Sound designer: Björn Viktorsson
Foley: Heikki Kossi
Composer: Gyða Valtýsdóttir
Script: Yrsa Roca Fannberg, Elín Agla Briem
Support: The Icelandic Film Center, RÚV
Premiere: Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival
