bits and pieces from the northern island.
Title: Reyndu Aftur (Try Again) Committing suicide isn’t as easy as one may think. Hannes knows it well. Just as he is trying to put an end to his life, a series of incidents occurs and he finds himself locked outside his apartment in his underwear. His search for a spare key will prove a … Read the full article →
Jo pour Jonathan is one of the films in competition in the New Visions category. Jonathan is a teenager living in the suburbs. His role model is his older brother Thomas, formerly a car racer in the illegal circuits popular among youngsters. Thomas gave up his racing, found a job and a girlfriend. He doesn’t … Read the full article →
Do you think life is easy for superheroes? If you do, then you should watch Dai-Nipponjin (approximately translated in English as Big Man Japan). In the mockumentary style, the film by Hitoshi Matsumoto sheds light on the private life of Masaru Daisato, aka Dai-Nipponjin, the last defender of Japan and also the last in his … Read the full article →
Littlerock is an actual place located in California, in the Los Angeles county. Atsuko and her brother Rintaro find themselves forced to stop in Littlerock after the car they rented breaks down. They are journeying alone through the American province and have travelled all the way from Japan to reaffirm their identity through a visit … Read the full article →
Last Train Home by Canada-based director Fan Lixin is a poignant but accurate depiction of the lives of over 130 million Chinese migrant workers. The film took years to complete and it represents in a straight to the point manner how our contemporary economies are destined to fail, if not from a merely financial point … Read the full article →
Bad Family explores issues and deviations of what’s supposed to be the average upper Finnish bourgeoisie. Mikael Lindgren (Ville Virtanen), a Public Prosecutor, is a well-off and apparently accomplished man. He has two sons: the older one, Dani, comes from a previous failed marriage. Dani is still a young man in high school, but Mikael … Read the full article →
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost and Jim Jarmusch took the same path. Both poet and filmmaker took each in his own field the path less traveled by. As Frost affirms in his The Road Not Taken, … Read the full article →
For those who are habitual film festivals goers, it must have been a nice and different experience to attend the festival’s opening ceremony – and so it was for us at Iceland Chronicles. Differently from ceremonies at other international films festivals, where often appearances are taken too much into account to the detriment of substance, … Read the full article →