12 Icelandic films at Angers – special tribute to Sólveig Anspach

A total of 12 Icelandic films will screen as part of an Icelandic retrospective at the Festival Premiers Plans D'Angers, which is being held January 22 – 31 in Angers, France. The retrospective will contain a special tribute to the Icelandic/French director Sólveig Anspach, who passed away last year at the age of 54.

Among those attending the festival are Icelandic writer/director Dagur Kári (Virgin Mountain, Noi the Albino) and Patrick Sobelman, a frequent producer of Sólveig Anspach's films, including her most recent one, The Together Project, which will be released later this year.

The 12 films screening in the retrospective are:

Vestmannaeyjar by Sólveig Anspach (1989)

101 Reykjavík by Baltasar Kormákur (2000)

Reykjavík, Elves in the City by Sólveig Anspach (2001)

Noi the Albino by Dagur Kári (2003)

Jar City by Baltasar Kormákur (2006)

Back Soon by Sólveig Anspach (2008)

Of Horses and Men by Benedikt Erlingsson (2013)

Paris of the North by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson (2014)

Life in a Fishbowl by Baldvin Z (2014)

Virgin Mountain by Dagur Kári (2015)

Sparrows by Rúnar Rúnarsson (2015)

Trapped (pilot), directed by Baltasar Kormákur (2015)

For further information, visit the festival's official website.