bits and pieces from the northern island.
It’s that time of the year again. For those who are familiar with it, it’s time to get ready for this year’s Iceland Airwaves, probably the most popular annual music event in Iceland. The first Airwaves was held in 1999 in an airplane hangar. Since its first edition many bands, then unknown and now famous, … Read the full article →
North Iraq, 2003, two weeks after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Ahmed (Yassir Taleeb) is a twelve-year-old boy. His only relative is his grandmother (Shehzad Hussen), an old woman of Kurdish lineage. They are traveling together looking for Ibrahim, Ahmed’s father, who was forced to join the Gulf War years before and never returned. A letter testifies … Read the full article →
Last night I had a dream. I was home with my family, my father was walking around with his cane and it all seemed perfectly normal. Then a few moments later during the same day, in the same dream, I don’t know how but I knew my father had died. I got scared. I kept … Read the full article →
Friedrich Dürrenmatt had written a film script entitled Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight). Not happy with the ending he had devised for the first version, he decided to write a new one. This time he chose the novel format, completely changing the epilogue and the morals implied in the story … Read the full article →
Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu is an old acquaintance of the Reykjavik International Film Festival: in 2005 his The Death of Mr. Lazarescu won the Discovery of the Year Award. To the Special Presentations category of this this seventh edition of the film festival, Puiu brings his Aurora, a film that not only he scripted and … Read the full article →
A demonstration is currently going on in front of the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, in Austurvöllur square. The demonstration started in the evening, but videos and e-mail chains have been going around the Internet for a while, encouraging people to show up in the square by 7:30 p.m. with whatever item might produce a lot … Read the full article →
Medeni Mesec (Honeymoons is the English title) earned a spotlight in the course of this year’s RIFF as it represented the first co-production between Serbia and Albania. Hostilities among populations in the Balkan peninsula have been a serious issue for a long time; Serbia and Albania share an endless history of reciprocal hatred. It’s only … Read the full article →
Winner of the Golden Puffin award at the Reykjavík International Film Festival 2010 for the category New Visions and also of the FIPRESCI award, Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) is almost a philosophical essay in form of a narrative film. In reality, the narration is very minimal, to the point the film almost seems … Read the full article →