Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Year: 2022
Duration: 142'
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Biography
film director
Hlynur Pálmason
(Reykjavik, Iceland, 1984) started out as a visual artist and evolved his career later into filmmaking by pursuing an education at the Danish National Film School, which he graduated from in 2013 with the award-winning short A Painter. Pálmason’s feature debut Winter Brothers world premiered in the main competition of the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, where it won four awards. Since then it has been sold to over twenty territories and continues winning many awards. A White, White Day is his second feature film: it premiere in Cannes Critics Week and won Best Film Award at the Torino Film Festival among others. Godland premiered in Certain regard in Cannes.
FILMOGRAFIA
En dag eller to (A Day or Two, cm, 2012), En Maler (A Painter, cm, 2013), Seven Boats (cm, 2014), Vinterbrøbdre (Winter Brothers, 2017), Hvítur, Hvítur, Dagur (A White, White Day, 2019), Vanskabte land (Godland, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“Godland explores family bonds, the acceptance of myth or some kind of magic realism. It’s also a film about a journey into ambition, love and faith and the fear of God and the need and want to find your place in all this, to be seen, to be a part of something. It’s also about communication, the foreign aspect of dialogue, and the way we communicate – or rather miscommunicate. It’s about inner and outer conflicts. It’s about humanity and nature and how these things collide with each other, through man, animal and the world around us. In the end, I found out that this film is very much about what divides us and what ties us together. And I was surprised to find out that in the end, death might be the only thing that ties us together. This is the core of the film, the beating heart.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Hlynur Pálmason. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Maria von Hausswolff. FILM EDITING: Julius Krebs Damsbo. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Frosti Friðriksson. COSTUME DESIGN: Nina Grønlund. MUSIC: Alex Zhang Hungtai.
SOUND: Björn Viktorsson, Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen. CAST: Crosset Hove. Ingvar Sigurðsson, Vic Carmen Sonne, Hauberg Lohmann, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Waage Sandø, Hilmar Guðjónsson. PRODUCERS: Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin. PRODUCTION: Snowglobe, Join Motion Pictures.
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