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A SONG CALLED HATE

By Anna HILDUR

ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE - as FIN / PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2020

The Icelandic band Hatari is used to provoking everyone and everything, but at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel they have the opportunity to call out the whole world – that is if they want to.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ICELAND
- Languages
- ICELANDIC, ENGLISH, HEBREW, ARABIC
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Anna HILDUR
- Writer(s)
- Anna HILDUR, Iain FORSYTH, Jane POLLARD
- Cast
- Matthías Tryggvi HARLADSSON, Klemens Nikulásson HANNIGAN, Einar Hrafn STEFÁNSSON
- Producer(s)
- Anna HILDUR, Iain FORSYTH, Jane POLLARD, Skarphéðinn GUÐMUNDSSON
- Synopsis
- The pro-Palestinian, anti-capitalist, BDSM-provocative, techno-punk performance art ensemble (!) Hatari unsurprisingly drew attention to themselves with their performance at the Icelandic qualifiers for the Eurovision Song Contest. So much so that they won and therefore were allowed to perform at the main event in Tel Aviv. But what now? Should they boycott the event, swallow their idealism or use their airtime to criticise the host country for their illegal occupation of Palestine? The Icelandic director Anna Hildur joins the boys in the band all the way to the fateful final. Produced by the team behind the Nick Cave film '20,000 days on Earth'.