bits and pieces from the northern island.
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 →
This year’s RIFF, as promised, will feature a rich program. New Visions Films in competition to receive the Golden Puffin award are featured in this section of the festival. All directors in the New Visions category are deserving filmmakers at their first or second feature film. Le quattro volte (The four times) – M. Frammartino … Read the full article →
The Reykjavík International Film Festival was established back in 2004 to bring to Reykjavík a film festival internationally recognized, as an incentive for the local film industry and also as a cultural catalyst both for cinema enthusiasts and for a wider and more casual audience. Great importance has been given from the very beginning to … Read the full article →