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KONUR A RAUDUM SOKKUM WINS AUDIENCE PRIZE AT SKJALDBORG
The third annual Skjaldborg Documentary Film Festival was held in the town of Patreksfjordur the last weekend in May. The festival drew a large audience of around 200 this year and the town’s cinema was packed as over 30 new Icelandic documentaries screened. The festival’s guest of honour was director Thorfinnur Gudnason.
The third annual Skjaldborg Documentary Film Festival was held in the town of Patreksfjordur the last weekend in May. The festival drew a large audience of around 200 this year and the town’s cinema was packed as over 30 new Icelandic documentaries screened. The festival’s guest of honour was director Thorfinnur Gudnason.
Halla Kristin Einarsdottir’s documentary Konur a raudum sokkum won the festival’s audience prize. The film deals with the Icelandic feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
Among other highlights of this year’s festival were a plokkfisk-party hosted by the Women’s Association of Patreksfjordur and a dance held in the town’s community centre.