COLD FEVER - dir. FRIDRIK THOR FRIDRIKSSON

Synopsis
Atsushi Hirata, a young Tokyo executive, is looking forward to his yearly holiday playing golf in Hawaii. His plans change suddenly when his grandfather convinces him that he should perform a memorial service for Atsushi's parents at the spot where they died: a remote river in Iceland. Cold Fever is a story of golf and ghosts; an old Citroen and exploding icebergs; funerals and boiled sheep heads; men's choirs and Icelandic country & western bands; a potent liquor called Black Death and auras; and most of all the story of how one young man goes on a very difficult journey to find out something important about himself.

Original title: A köldum klaka
English title: Cold fever
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Language: English, Icelandic, Japanese, German

Director: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
Scriptwriter: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Jim Stark
Main cast: Fisher Steven, Gísli Halldórsson, Lili Taylor, Masatoshi Nagase, Seijiun Suzuki, Laura Hughes
Editor: Steingrímur Karlsson
Cinematographer: Ari Kristinsson
Sound design: Kjartan Kjartansson
Production design: Árni Páll Jóhannsson
Music: Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Producers: Jim Stark, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
Co-producer: George Gund
Production company: Icicle, Icelandic Film Corporation
Co-production company: Altar Production, Film Fonds, Pandora Filmproduktion, Sunrise & Zentropa Entertainments
International sales & distribution: Alta Films, Artistic License & CinemArt

Country: Iceland
Sound: Dolby SR
Length: 87 minutes
Screening format: 35mm colour
Film gauge/aspect ratio: 1:2.35
Premier date and year: February 3. 1995
International Premiere: September 13. 1995, Toronto International Film Festival

Festivals

• Edinburgh Film Festival 1995
• Toronto Int. Film Festival 1995
• Sudbury Int. Film Festival 1995, Canada
• Hamburg Int. Film Festival 1995
• Riminicinema 1995, Italy   
• Warsaw Film Festival 1995   
• Flanders Film Festival-Ghent 1995
• Birmingham Film Festival 1995
• Nordic Film Festival Lubeck 1995, Germany
• Hawaii Int. Film Festival 1995
• Puerto Rico Int. Film Festival 1995
• The Scandinavian Film Festival 1995,    South-Africa   
• Sundance - Premiere section 1996
• Göthenburg Film Festival 1996, Sweden
• Chicago Film Festival 1996
• Valenciennes Film Festival 1996, France
• Laon Int. Film Festival 1996, France
• Singapore Int. Film Festival 1996, Singapore
• Seatte Int. Film Festival 1996
• San Francisco Int. Film Festival 1996
• Troia Film Festival 1996, Portugal
• Midnight Sun Film Festival 1996, Finland
• Sydney Int. Film Festival 1996
• Prague Int. Film Festival 1996
• Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival 1996, Czech Republic
• The Norwegian Int. Film Festival 1996
• The Atlantic Film Festival 1996, Canada
• Sao Paulo Film Festival 1996, Brazil

Awards

• Rimini Film Festival 1995: Best Film
• Edinburgh Film Festival 1995, The Channel 4 Director's Award
• Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival 1996: Golden Dolphin, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
• Seattle International Film Festival 1996: Golden Space Needle Award (best actress), Lily Taylor