Icelandic films at the Göteborg Film Festival – GODLAND in competition for the Dragon Award
Three Icelandic titles will screen at the Göteborg Film Festival, which takes place from January 27 through February 5. Alongside the festival, a total of five Icelandic feature and TV projects will be presented at the Nordic Film Market.
Godland by Hlynur Pálmason competes for the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film. A Letter From Helga by Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, and Driving Mum by Hilmar Oddsson will screen in the Nordic Light program
The TV series As Long as We Live, written by Aníta Briem, competes for the Nordic Film & TV Fund Prize for Best TV Script.
Read more here: AS LONG AS WE LIVE nominated for the Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award
Two Icelandic feature projects will be presented in the Nordic Films market. Mannvirki by Gústav Geir Bollason, and Operation Napoleon by Óskar Thór Axelsson.
Mannvirki will have its world premiere, in the Tiger Competition, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam which takes place January 25 – Feb 5. The film is a feature-length essay, at the border of fiction and documentary, where the filmmaker contemplates a multi-layered world of uncertainty and hope. Mannvirki competes for the prestigious Tiger-award at the festival.
Operation Napoleon is based on a novel by famed Icelandic crime writer, Arnaldur Indridason. In it, a young Icelandic lawyer gets drawn into the vortex of an international conspiracy when she receives grainy footage of an old airplane wreck, revealed by the melting of one of Iceland's largest glaciers.
The works in progress section features two Icelandic projects. Cold , by Erlingur Thoroddsen, and Solitude , by Ninna Pálmadóttir.
Cold is Erlingur Thoroddsen's second feature film. It stars Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson as a man who investigates decades-old deaths at a juvenile treatment centre.
Solitude is Ninna Pálmadóttir's first feature film. The film tells the story of Gunnar, who is forced by the state to sell his country home and relocate to the capital. He soon meets 10-year-old Ari and their friendship proves to be transformative for them both.
Balls, a TV series in development, will be presented at the TV Drama Vision section of the festival, as a work in progress. Years after burning out and falling from grace, a middle-aged, 90s handball legend seeks to redeem himself by returning to his childhood club to coach the women's team where he clashes with a new generation of women in a post #MeToo society.
Nordic Film Market is the leading marketplace and meeting point for the Scandinavian and international film industry attending Göteborg Film Festival. The market presents new films available for distribution, works in progress, film projects in development, spotting talent and trends in film from the Nordic region (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland).