101 REYKJAVIK - dir. BALTASAR KORMAKUR

Synopsis
A young man´s sexual impulses go haywire when he discovers the woman he has just been to bed with happens to be his mother´s lesbian lover, and may be carrying his child. Living on a social security in the protected environment of his mother´s home, Hlynur has never felt the urge to venture beyond the confines of his microcosmic world: 101 Reykjavík. Determined to resist adulthood at all cost, he soon finds out that life is busy making other plans for him.

Original title: 101 Reykjavík
English title: 101 Reykjavik
Genre: Black Comedy
Language: Icelandic / English

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Scriptwriter: Baltasar Kormákur, based on Hallgrímur Helgason´s novel by the same name (Nordic Council Literary Prize Nomination)
Main cast: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Thrúdur Vilhjálmsdóttir, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Editor(s): Skule Eriksen, Sigvaldi Kárason, Steingrímur Karlsson
Cinematographer: Peter Steuger
Sound design: Kjartan Kjartansson
Music: Damon Albarn, Einar Örn
Production design: Árni Páll Jóhannsson
Producer(s): Ingvar Thórdarson, Baltasar Kormákur
Production company: 101 Ltd.
Co-production company: Filmhuset Norway, Zentropa Productions Denmark , Troika Germany, Liberator France
World sales: Trust Film Sales, Avedore Tværvej 10 DK- 2650 Hvidovre Denmark
Tel: + 45 36 86 87 88
Fax: +45 36 77 44 48
Website: www.blueeyes.is

Country: Iceland
Sound: Dolby SRD
Length: 92 minutes
Screening format: 35 mm Colour
Production format: 35 mm
Film gauge/aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Number of reels: 6
Premiere date and year: May 31st 2000

Festivals

• Locarno International Film Festival 2000 Switzerland
• Edinburgh International Film Festival 2000 Scotland
• Espoo Ciné 2000 Finland
• New Nordic Films, Haugesund 2000 Norway
• Toronto International Film Festival 2000 Canada
• Atlantic Film Festival 2000 Canada
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2000 Canada
• Filmfest Hamburg 2000 Germany
• Warsaw International Film Festival 2000 Poland
• Pusan International Film Festival 2000 S-Korea
• Bergen International Film Festival 2000 Norway
• Valladolid International Film Festival 2000 Spain
• Raindance, London 2000 UK
• FCMM, Montréal 2000 Canada
• Flanders International Film Festival 2000 Belgium
• Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2000 Brazil
• Ljubljana International Film Festival 2000 Slovenia
• Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2000 Greece
• Europa Cinema, Viareggio 2000 Italy
• CameraImage 2000 Poland
• Black Nights Film Festival 2000 Estonia
• Würzburg, Internationales Filmwochenende 2001 Germany
• Göteborg International Film Festival 2001 Sweden
• Belgrade International Film Festival 2001 Yugoslavia
• Festival du cinema nordique, Rouen 2001 France
• Skopje Film Festival 2001 Macedonia
• London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2001 England
• Singapore International Film Festival 2001 Singapore
• Istanbul International Film Festival 2001 Turkey
• Brasilia Int. Film Festival 2001 Brazil
• Buenos Aires Int. Film Festival 2001 Argentina
• Troia Int. Film Festival 2001 Portugal
• Sydney Film Festival 2001 Australia
• Int. Film Festival Cinema Jove 2001Spain
• Pula Film Festival 2001 Croatia
• Geniuzastare Film Festival 2001 Portugal
• New Zealand Film Festival 2001 New Zealand
• Galway Film Fleadh 2001 Ireland
• Jerusalem Film Festival 2001 Israel
• Melbourne Int. Film Festival 2001 Australia
• Fest. de Cinema Gay E Lésbico de Lisboa 2001 Portugal
• Festival de Cine de Bogotá . 2001 Columbia
• Int. Center of Cinema Arsenals 2001 Latvia
• Barcelona Int. Gay & Lesbian 2001 Spain
• Noordelijk Film Festival 2001 Netherlands
• 17 Turin G&L Int. Film Festival 2002 Italy
• Bermuda International 2003 Film Festival
• Transilvania Film Festival 2003 Romania
• DriveOUT Roma 2003 Italy
• NordiQ Amsterdam 2003 Netherlands

Awards & nominations

• Icelandic entry in Nordic Amanda 2000: Nordic Film of the Year
• Locarno Int. Film Festival: Won the Euro 26 Award (Youth Jury Award)
• Toronto Int. Film Festival: Won the Discovery Award
• Nordic Film Days Lübeck: Won the Interfilm Church Film Prize
• Rouen Nordic Film Festival: Won the 2001 Grand Jury Prize
• Tbilisi International Film Festival: Won the 2001 Prize of the Union of Georgian Filmmakers
• Thessaloniki Int. Film Festival: Won the main FIPRESCI Jury Prize
• Pula Film Festival: Won the Big Golden Arena for best film
• Nordic Film Days Lübeck: Baltic Films Prize, Honourable Mention
• Europa Cinema, Viareggio: Best Film
• Edinburgh Int. Film Festival: Selected for Best of the Fest
• European Film Awards 2000: Nominated for the Discovery 2000 Fassbinder Award
• Locarno International Film Festival: Nominated for the 2000 Golden Leopard

• Bogota Film Festival: Nominated for the 2001 Golden Precolumbian Circle

• Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema: Nominated for the 2001 Best Film

• Camerimage: Nominated for the 2000 Golden Frog