2009
GOD BLESS ICELAND - dir. HELGI FELIXSON
Iceland experiences the deepest and most rapid financial crisis recorded in peacetime when its three major banks all collapse in the same week in October 2008. On January 22nd the government falls after weeks of intense public protests and Iceland might get the world’s first lesbian Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir.
Original title: Gud blessi Ísland
English title: God Bless Iceland
Genre: Documentary
Language: Icelandic
Director: Helgi Felixson
Scriptwriter: Helgi Felixson, Titti Johnson
Main cast: Thórir Rúnar Geirsson, Eva Hauksdóttir, Sturla Jónsson
Editor: Steffi Thors
Cinematographer: Helgi Felixson
Sound design: Cinema Sound, Ingvar Lundberg, Kjartan Kjartansson
Music: Hilmar Örn
Producer(s): Helgi Felixson, Titti Johnson
Co-producer(s): Eva Rink, Heino Deckert
Production company: Iris Film - Felix Film
Co-production company: ma.ja.de. filmproduktion
International sales & distribution: ma.ja.de.filmproduktion
National sales & distribution: Sena
Website: www.felixfilm.se, www.sena.is
Country: Iceland
Length: 70 / 90 / 56 minutes
Screening format: HD / DIGIBETA / 35 mm
Production format: HD
Film gauge/aspect ratio: 16:9
Premiere date and year: October 6. 2009
Festivals
2010:
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, March 10.-18.