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    A White, White Day | Hvítur, hvítur dagur

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    A taciturn former policeman in a small Icelandic enclave grows more complex before our eyes in the visually arresting and emotionally rewarding A White, White Day.

    SCREEN INTERNATIO
    • Archive - Festival 35
    • Director: Hlynur Pálmason
    • Iceland, Denmark, Sweden 2019
    • 109 minutes
    • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

    Iceland Academy Award Nominee

    Ingimundur is an off-duty police chief from a remote Icelandic town whose wife died in a tragic accident two years ago. Ingimundur channels his grief into renovating a house but a chance discovery among her things makes him question whether he ever truly knew his wife. Soon, his obsession with uncovering the truth begins to consume him,

    “A White, White Day brings to mind a cinematic version of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream… [It’s] grimly hypnotic… powerful and freshly thought out” - Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter.

    Filmography: Winter Brothers (2017).

    • Director Hlynur Pálmason
    • Production Anton Máni Svansson
    • Script Hlynur Pálmason
    • Cinematography Maria von Hausswolff
    • Editing Julius Krebs Damsbo
    • Music Edmund Finnis
    • Festivals Cannes (Rising Star Award, Critics' Week, Cannes 2019) Karlovy Vary
    • Actors Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson, Elma Stefanía Ágústsdóttir
    • Source New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw