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Story
A calmly tender, loosely episodic echo of Icelandic society by Rúnar Rúnarsson. It’s just before Christmas. There’s a special atmosphere everywhere which reflects the emotional state of the nation. A deserted farm burns down, in a school a children‘s choir sings Christmas carols, in a museum a mother quarrels with her ex on the phone and a little girl lets her granny try out her new VR headset. Pictures of quiet contemplation overlap: the banal and the sublime, beauty and sadness, life and death, forming a bitter-sweet mirror of Icelandic reality.
Director
RÚNAR RÚNARSSON (*1977) started out in 1995 as a director and screenplay writer and was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for his short The Last Farm. After Volcano (2011) and Sparrows (2015) Echo is his third feature film.Trailer
Info
Bergmál
Fiction Feature
Icelandic, English
Kaleidoskop//FF2019
Iceland, France, Switzerland
2019
79 min
OV with English subtitles
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Sigurmar Albertsson, Bent Kingo Andersen, Sif Arnarsdóttir, Ari Arnarson, Finnur Arnar Arnarson, Árni Arnarson, Gísli Már Arnarsson, Jon Magnus Arnarsson
Live Hide, Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir, Rúnar Rúnarsson
Sophia Olsson
Jacob Secher Schulsinger
Kjartan Sveinsson
Gus Olafsson
Jour2Fête
Nimbus Iceland; Pegasus Pictures; Jour2Fête; Bord Cadre Films
Clémence Michalon: Jour2Fête: clemence.michalon@jour2fete.com
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