The Last Farm

Síðasti bærinn

Iceland

2004

17 Min

Color

Icelandic

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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PROD Skuli Fr. Malmquist, Thor Sigurjonsson

CAST Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Jón Sigurbjörnsson, Sigurður Skúlason, Kristjana Vagnsdottir

SOUND Steingrímur E. Guðmundsson

Synopsis

In a remote corner of Iceland, winter is coming on. An aging farmer named Hrafn is doing has last chores before leaving with his wife Gróa for a retirement home in the city. Their daughter Lilja will be coming after the weekend to pick them up. She calls her parents, interrupting her dad’s lunch. Her mother is napping. The stoic Hrafn wants to make sure she won’t come before Monday. What are these last chores? —IMDb

Director

Rúnar Rúnarsson

Born in Reykjavik Iceland, Rúnar Rúnarsson lived in Denmark for 7 years and graduated from the Danish Film School in 2009. Rúnar recently returned to Iceland to direct VOLCANO, his first feature film. Nominated for an Academy Award in 2006, the Golden Palm in Cannes 2008 and the European Film Awards in 2008, Rúnar is probably the most awarded short film director in the world with 90 International awards under his belt for his last 3 films. —festivalscope.com