31/08/2018 - Produced by Anton Máni Svansson, Hlynur Pálmason’s second feature is set in a remote Icelandic town and stars Ingvar E Sigurðsson

Director Hlynur Pálmason (© Locarno Festival/Sailas Vanetti)

Hlynur Pálmason’s new feature, entitled A White, White Day [+see also:
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interview: Hlynur Pálmason
film profile], which was screened in the Discovery section of the Toronto International Film Festival and won the prestigious Bodil Award for Best Danish Film in 2017. Pálmason has once again chosen to set his story in a remote Nordic village, where isolation and alienation reign supreme. 

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Here, an off-duty police chief starts to suspect a local man of having an affair with his wife, who recently died in a car accident. As he builds a house for his daughter and granddaughter, his obsession with finding out the truth intensifies, and inevitably begins to endanger both him and his entourage. Producer Anton Máni Svansson has described this film as a “mystery drama about deception, grief, sacrifice and unconditional love”. The lead role is played by famous Icelandic actor Ingvar E Sigurðsson, best known for his involvement in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Angels of the Universe and Baltasar Kormákur's Jar City [+see also:
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Pálmason wrote the screenplay, whilst Maria von Hausswolff (Winter Brothers, Parents [+see also:
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A White, White Day is being produced by Anton Máni Svansson (Winter Brothers, Heartstone [+see also:
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