WINTER BROTHERS wins five awards – four awards at Locarno
Winter Brothers, the Danish/Icelandic debut feature by Hlynur Pálmason, won four awards at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, where it had its world premiere on August 3. It also won an award at the New Horizons festival in Wroclaw, Poland.
At the Locarno Film Festival, lead actor Elliot Crosset Hove won for Best Actor, it won Best European Film – Europa Cinemas award, Junior Jury Award – First Prize and a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury. At New Horizons, it won a Special Mention from FIPRESCI.
Winter Brothers is a brother odyssey set in a worker‘s environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers – their routines, habits and rituals – and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
Winter Brothers is written and directed Hlynur Pálmason. It is produced by Danish production company Masterplan Pictures and Anton Máni Svansson for Icelandic production company Join Motion Pictures.
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