SEVEN BOATS wins Best Nordic Art Film at Minimalen
Seven Boats, the short film by writer/director Hlynur Pálmason, won the Best Nordic Art Film award at the recently concluded Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway. This is the film‘s first award. Seven Boats premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 and has since been selected for over 20 international film festivals.
In Seven Boats, we are out in the open sea. A man is in the ocean fighting for his life. He is surrounded by seven boats.
The jury‘s motivation read as follows: „In a single shot narrative, in what seems like a simple setup, metaphorical questions arise about our social behavior. The director approaches with accuracy our tendency to look the other way instead of helping people in need, a problem which is easily transferred to more universal questions.“
Seven Boats was written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason. Julie Waltersdorph Hansen and Per Damgaard Hansen produced the film for Masterplan Pictures along with Anton Máni Svansson, who produced for Join Motion Pictures. Maria von Hausswolff was the film‘s director of photography and Julius Krebs Damsbo edited the film.
A large part of the crew that worked on Seven Boats is now working on Pálmason‘s first feature film, Winter Brothers, which is a Danish/Icelandic collaboration much like Seven Boats. Masterplan Pictures will produce the film, with Join Motion Pictures co-producing.