THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET by Yrsa Roca Fannberg in competition at CPH:DOX
The Ground Beneath Our Feet by Yrsa Roca Fannberg will have its world premiere at the CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen. The documentary will screen in the NORDIC:DOX competition section of the festival.
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Winter turns to summer that turns to winter and, maybe, to summer again, for a group of elderly people living together in a grand old building in Reykjavík. It is an institution, but also a home. Some have lived a lifetime that spans almost a century. The daily actions they have performed throughout their lives are portrayed as textural meditative experiences while their bodies and memory perform as creeks flowing down a mountain to the sea. A sensitive and humanistic film about life at the end of life, when there is nowhere to go after Grund but the ground itself.
The script is written by Yrsa Roca Fannberg and Elín Agla Briem. Cinematography is by Wojciech Staroń. The film's producer is Hanna Björk Valsdóttir (Akkeri Films), coproduced by Małgorzata Staroń (Staron Films).
CPH:DOX is one of the world's leading documentary film festivals. The Ground Beneath Our Feet is Yrsa's third documentary. Her first, Salóme, won Best Nordic Documentary Award at Nordisk Panorama in 2014. Her second documentary, The Last Autumn (2019), was screened at CPH:DOX 2020 following its world premiere at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival the summer before.