Journalist Marcin J. Sobczak reports from the 2012 Berlinale.…
Blacks's Game, the debut feature of Óskar Thor Axelsson, had its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival yesterday, where it's competing for the Tiger Award. Judging by the buzz on the film's Rotterdam fest page it seems it has gone down very well indeed. Furthermore it's currently rated a…
Journalist and former editor of Land & synir, Ásgeir H. Ingólfsson, reports from the fifth Skjaldborg Documentary Film Festival (June 10-12).…
Giorgio Gosetti, director of Venice Days, has been appointed the Director of the New Visions Programme at RIFF and Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen has accepted a seat on the jury. RIFF (Reykjavik International Film Festival) will take place from September 22 to October 2.…
Valdís Óskarsdóttir was selected for the program Variety's Ten Euro Directors to Watch, which was presented by the European Film Promotion at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In support of this honour, Valdís Óskarsdóttir latest feature film, King’s Road, was screened.…
Fridrik Thór Fridriksson's Mamma Gógó (2010) recently won two prizes at international festivals, leading actress Kristbjörg Kjeld won Best Actress at the Polar Lights Festival in Murmansk Russia and the film received the audience prize at Festroia Film Festival in Setúbal Portugal.…
Rúnar Rúnarsson won the Best Directing Award for his first feature film, Volcano, at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Rúnarsson shared the award with Constantin Popescu who directed the fim Principles of Life.…
Rúnar Rúnarsson, Volcano’s writer and director, is interviewed by Director’s Fortnight website, which also shows the premiere’s standing ovation from Friday.
All three major trades have now run very positive reviews of Rúnar Rúnarsson's Director's Fortnight entry, Volcano. Screen's review has already been reported here. Hollywood Reporter calls the film "a love story observed with tenderness that never compromises its truthfulness" and Variety's Alissa Simon writes: "With…
Screen's Mark Adams writes a favourable review of Rúnar Rúnarsson's Volcano, premiered yesterday at Cannes. "It is a odd concept to construct a coming-of-age tale around a recently retired 67 year-old man, but writer/director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s moving and neatly made drama manages to do just that, driven by…
