GIFF 2014 - Iceland
All icelandic films screened on the 37th Gothenburg Int'l Film Festival
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- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsHilmir Snær GuðnasonVictoria AbrilHanna María KarlsdóttirWill the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
- DirectorOlaf de Fleur JohannessonStarsRaquela RiosStefan C. SchaeferOlivia GaludoRaquela, a transsexual from the Philippines, dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris.
- DirectorValdís ÓskarsdóttirStarsHreinn BeckCaroline DaltonErlendur EiríkssonA couple decide to get married in a church out in the country. It is 1 hour drive from Reykjavik but things do not go as planed.
- DirectorDagur KáriStarsJakob CedergrenNicolas BroTilly Scott PedersenA young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through times and struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.
- DirectorAni Simon-KennedyStarsViktoría Rós AntonsdóttirDavið Laufdal ArnarssonBryndis Petra BragadóttirIt is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. Only one Boy questions the verity of what he has been taught, and he must decide whether to continue living in a society of fear or choose his own destiny.
- DirectorThoromar JonssonStarsÞorsteinn BachmannHilmir Snær GuðnasonArndís Hrönn EgilsdóttirArnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is somehow responsible so he decides to take matters into his own hands and avenge his brother.
- DirectorRagnar BragasonStarsThora Bjorg HelgaIngvar SigurdssonHalldóra GeirharðsdóttirA girl is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in the dark music of Black Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.
- DirectorFriðrik Þór FriðrikssonStarsÖrvar Jens ArnarssonRúrik HaraldssonSigrún HjálmtýsdóttirThe story of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s. Tomas loves the movies and is highly influenced by them.
- DirectorBenedikt ErlingssonStarsIngvar SigurdssonCharlotte BøvingJohann Pall OddsonA country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
- DirectorSólveig AnspachStarsÉlodie BouchezDidda JónsdóttirBaltasar KormákurA very sad but genuinely human story. The middle-aged Icelandic woman Loa is seriously mentally ill. Finally it turns out that her husband is a latent alcoholic who submits to his addiction whenever Loa leaves him. When she is at home, she is living a normal life and taking care of her children. Sometimes she cannot stand it any longer and just runs away. During one such tour she was eventually found in England. During the tour of the present movie she has ended up in a mental hospital in France, without identification papers and apparently being mute. The young psychiatrist Cora is in charge of her and applies unorthodox methods. She is the only one who suspected that Loa might not be French. Interpol soon identified Loa and on Cora's day off she was sent home. Cora immediately flows to Iceland, where everyone including Loa's husband thinks she is a tourist wanting to see the volcano. Loa is prepared to follow Cora back to the French hospital. Unfortunately, the local doctor happens to see them on their way to the boat. He knows nothing of psychiatry and prevents what he perceives as 'criminal kidnapping'. The movie ends with a complete failure for both Loa and Cora.
- DirectorHelgi FelixsonTitti JohnsonStarsKuaTearikiKua and Teriki will soon get married. They live on the distant Tureia island in the French Polynesia, Pacific Ocean and have just been told that something is wrong with their son Maokis heart. It is a consequence of living only 100 km away from the island of Moruroa, where France has tested 193 atom bombs for 30 years. Several of their family members are sick and Moruroa can soon collapse, which can lead to a tsunami likely to drown all of them. Vive La France is a personal and intimate story about harvesting the consequences of the French atomic program.
- DirectorGuðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonStarsÁgúst WigumEinar Jóhann ValssonValdimar Örn FlygenringThe film shows a strong bond between two brothers who live in a remote fjord with their parents. We look into their world through the eyes of the younger brother and follow him on a journey marking a turning point in the brothers' lives.
- DirectorMarteinn ThorssonStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonMaría BirtaNanna Kristín MagnúsdóttirLeifur Sigurdarson, an unstoppable ladies man and alcoholic parliament member, is forced in rehab by his friend and boss, the Prime Minister of Iceland. But before he gets spanked in public, he invites his friends over for a gargantuan feast. During the party we get to know Leifur and the other characters in the movie as well as finding out about Leifur's, and his posse's, sordid past.