María Sigurðardóttir

The staff at the bureau of values may be the greatest bureaucrats in the world, but they have the most colourful dreams, not to mention their nightmare Rosie, is like a breath of fresh air when she comes into the office just before closing-time, raising everybody’s spirits. Live action and animation combined in a comedy.

This Icelandic tale, loosely based on the real-life experiences of director Fridrik Fridriksson tells the saga of a boyhood spent in Iceland in the 1960s.

Hiver 1984, Islande, îles Vestamman. Un chalutier sombre au large des côtes islandaises. Les membres de l’équipage périssent tous en quelques minutes. Tous sauf un. Dans une eau glaciale où l'espérance de vie est de moins de 8 minutes dans une eau à 4 °C, cette force de la nature parvient, au terme d'une nage héroïque de plus de 6 heures, à regagner la terre. Face à l’incrédulité générale devant son impensable exploit, la vie de cet homme d'apparence ordinaire est alors bouleversée... Film basé sur des faits rééls.

Norway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.

The widow has inherited half of the farm, and is in league with a businessman from the village, who wants to buy the farm. Her purpose is to get her in-laws to sell her their share, and she is prepared to use any means to gain her ends. But soon she finds herself threatened by unknown persons or forces in the menacing winter landscape, to the point where her life is at stake.

While collecting material for his thesis, a master’s student interviews two elderly sisters who have been living together in the same old house their entire lives. But as the young man begins to speak with the seemingly normal pair, he soon discovers that there’s much more to their story than meets the eye.