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1) The County
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Icelandic
Description
After the global success of his Un Certain Regard winner Rams, director Grímur Hákonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. Bitterly funny and deeply affecting, the film plays out a timely political allegory against a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a brainy, tenacious anti-heroine and Hákonarson's dry Nordic humor. When we first meet Inga, she is mid-wifing a calf, in the middle of another back-breaking...
2) Rams
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Icelandic
Description
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi's sheep, the entire valley comes under...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Icelandic
Description
It is 1953, and Freya, who had gone to America as an officer's bride, has returned home to begin a new life. She moves into a small house of distant relatives in a quite fishing village in Iceland. But unlike the drab, plump girl who went abroad, Freya, now in her twenties, is a beautiful woman. She is somewhat of a mystery woman of the household, especially to the men of the community. But soon strange things begin to happen in their community. Is...
4) Noi
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Icelandic
Description
Seventeen-year-old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world. The fjord is surrounded by ominous mountains and covered under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from his white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Icelandic
Description
Two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration, Finnbogi and Alfred, spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads that stretch out to the distant horizon. With no one but each other for company, the barren wilderness becomes a place of adventure, disaster and discovery as both men reach difficult crossroads in their lives.
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