07 Mar 2024
Time is the Thief of Memory
A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.
Summerland
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Their house is built around an elf stone, which is sacred to the wife Lara, who is blessed with a sixth sense. When they get an offer to sell the stone at a high price, her husband Óskar is really tempted.
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Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir Lára
Kjartan Guðjónsson 
Snorri Engilbertsson Hallfríður Þóra Tryggvadóttir Arnbjörg Hlíf Valsdóttir Nokkvi Helgason Guðmundur Ólafsson 
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