COUNT ME OUT - dir. ARI KRISTINSSON

Synopsis: Hrefna (9) lives alone with her mother. She has never met her father and she has been told that he lives abroad. On her tenth birthday, Hrefna discovers that her father is actually living in a suburb nearby, married to a young woman. Hrefna and her girlfriend decide to pay a visit. On the doorstep they lose their nerve when a man - her father - opens the door with a baby in his arms. The girls decide to go again and secretly observe the house and the family. They take an instannt dislike to Pálína, the father's bad-tempered and constantly nagging wife, and together they work out a plan to save the father from this terrible woman.

Original title: Stikkfrí
English title: Count Me Out
Genre: Family, Comedy
Language: Icelandic

Director: Ari Kristinsson
Scriptwriter: Ari Kristinsson
Main cast: Bergthóra Aradóttir, Halldóra Björnsdóttir, Halldóra Geirhardsóttir, María Ellingsen, Tinna Finnbogadóttir, Valdimar Flygenring
Editor: Steingrímur Karlsson
Cinematographer: Halldór Gunnarsson
Sound design: Kjartan Kjartansson
Producer(s): Ari Kristinsson, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson
Production company: Icelandic Film Corporation
Co-production company: Filmhuset Norway, Peter Rommel Film Production Germany, Zentropa Entertainments

Country: Iceland
Sound: Dolby Digital
Length: 84 minutes
Screening format: 5mm Colour
Film gauge/aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Premier date and year: 26. December 1997
International release: 11. September 1998, Norway

Awards
Cinekid 1998, Netherlands: Won the Audience Awards
Lucas - International Festival of Films for Children and Young People - 1998 Germany: Won the Audience Award and the Lucas for Children's Section - 6, 8 and 10 Years of Age
The Icelandic entry for the Academy Awards in 1998.