Films

🇮🇸Iceland

Country: Iceland (produced in 2020)
Screening time: 15 min
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『When the Trees Come』

監督：Berglind þrastardóttir

Japanese title: 木々が来るとき / Original title Þegar Trén Koma / Director Berglind þrastardóttir / Iceland / drama / 2020 / 15min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English

Þröstur is 8 years old, his older sister Dagný is 13. After hearing the myths of werewolves returning to Iceland, Þröstur has more to worry about than just the elves and trolls. One full-moon night Þröstur wakes with a start and sees Dagný’s bed is empty, he goes to her bedside to find blood spots on her bedsheets. Þröstur believes his sister is becoming a werewolf. This film retells the suffering saga of menstruation as a mythical metamorphosis through the eyes of a reverent younger brother. In Iceland where trees are starting to grow over the barren landscape as the glaciers melt, rumors are spreading over the playground that with the trees the werewolves are coming back! One night young Þröstur wakes to find blood in the bedsheets of his 13 year old sister... could it be, his own sister, a werewolf?

The tale of menstruation as one of magic and fairytales and not of suffering. Telling not only the change she feels in herself but also the burden of an oncoming responsibility: a changing climate reality she did not ask for.
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🇮🇸Iceland

Country: Iceland(produced in 2014)
Screening time: 5 min
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 14th.2 (Fri) venue: Snow theater

『Let´s Talk About Violence』

監督：Una Lorenzen

Japanese title: だれかに話して / Original title: Tolum um ofbeldi /Director Una Lorenzen/ Iceland / animation / 2014 / 5min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English

The message children are supposed to be left with are that domestic violence is not the family’s private matter, it can take place in every family and that the violence is never the child’s fault as the adults are responsible for the child’s wellbeing.In the cartoon children are encouraged to speak about the violence as there is always someone who can help.
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🇮🇸Iceland

Country: Iceland (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 6 min
Language: icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『Intrusion』

監督：Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Japanese title: 乱入 / Original title: Fár / Iceland / drama / 2023 / 6min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English

A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.
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