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23/11/2016

Icelandic films on display at the Arava Film Festival

The fifth Arava International Film Festival is about to kick off, with two major Icelandic films screening there. The festival features the finest in contemporary international..

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  • Issue 15
08/09/2016

“Iceland is a young nation, and with that comes a certain hardness”: Runar Runarrson on Sparrows

A wave of Icelandic cinema has been sweeping the international festivals, with films like Of Horses and Men, Virgin Mountain and Rams winning several awards…

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09/06/2016

SPARROWS wins Special Jury Prize at Transilvania International Film Festival

The Icelandic film Sparrows has won the Special Jury Award at the Transilvania Film Festival over the weekend. The film, directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, tells the story..

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29/03/2016

SPARROWS wins at Febiofest

 The Icelandic/Danish drama Sparrows has picked up the award for the New Europe competition at the Prague Film Festival Febiofest. The film, directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson,..

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24/02/2016

Icelandic films to be screened in Poland

27 Icelandic films are set to tour Poland this February and March as part of a cultural program titled ‘Ultima Thule: At the End of..

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01/02/2016

Goteborg 2016: Sparrows

Icelandic cinema needed a teen drama – and Sparrows is the perfect fit. Following a city boy as he is forced to move to a remote..

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  • Issue 11
30/11/2015

Symbolism and realism in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Sparrows

In the embrace of the steep, secretive mountains – almost constantly wrapped in a veil of clouds – in the Westfjords region of Iceland a..

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29/11/2015

Sparrows / Þrestir

  The maturity of a teenage city boy is measured to the extremes in this rural coming-of-age drama set amongst the Icelandic Westfjords. Sparrows captures..

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16/11/2015

Nordic films win in Thessaloniki

Icelandic film has proven to be the big winner at Greece’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival, with Grimur Hakonarson’s Rams winning the top prize.  In addition to Rams, Sparrows..

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09/08/2015

SPARROWS part of the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival

Rúnar Rúnarsson’s new film Sparrows has been selected to compete as part of the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival, which takes place in..

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27/04/2015

Versatile Film Sales has picked up the Icelandic film Sparrows

Article via the Nordisk Film & TV Fund Paris-based Versatile Film Sales has picked up the Icelandic film Sparrows directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson (pictured). The director’s first..

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  • Issue 6
01/09/2014

The Last Farm and Two Birds

The easy response to what both short films have in common is the director, but there is something else; something that they share: a tricky..

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17/07/2014

Four Icelandic films to shoot this summer

Four Icelandic films, each of which is supported by a production grant from the Icelandic Film Centre, will be in production this summer. The Icelandic/Danish..

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Nordic Noir in the UK

Barry Forshaw in Conversation “When I was a boy,” says Barry Forshaw, “I remember reading both The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Time..

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Border Wins Big at the 2019 Swedish Film Awards

Ali Abbasi’s award-winning film Border (Gräns) won six Guldbagge Awards at the annual Swedish Film Awards held at Circus in Stockholm yesterday. The other big..

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The Film That Lars Shot

If there is someone in Scandinavian cinema, whose name is associated with trouble, then it’s Lars von Trier. Nazi wannabe, misogynist, sadist, he is considered..

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  • Issue 25
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Jan Berg Jørgensen talks Klippfisk

Interview with Jan Berg Jørgensen, one of the founders of Klippfisk Klippfisk is an open and publicly funded film and media workshop at the Faroe..

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  • Issue 25
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How Thelma Re-Defines the Monstrous Feminine in Horror

In Carrie, Brian De Palma’s horror classic, Carrie White is an outsider plagued by an abusive mother and a gaggle of bullies. Following the onset..

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  • Issue 24

When (Non-)Action Requires Action

A Review of the Documentary ‘Golden Dawn Girls’ ‘I would like to see something positive in you’, says Norwegian film-maker Håvard Bustnes to one of..

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