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HALF ELF

HÁLFUR ÁLFUR

By Jón Bjarki MAGNÚSSON

FEELSALES - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2020

A lighthouse keeper prepares for his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within.

Ethnocineca, International Documentary Film Festival 2020

Nominated for "the Excellence in Visual Anthropology Award"

Nordisk Panorama Festival 2020

New Nordic Voices Competition

Skjaldborg Icelandic Documentary Film Festival 2020

Jury Prize

Astra Film Festival 2020

International Competition

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary, Social issues
- Countries
- ICELAND
- Languages
- ICELANDIC
- Duration
- 64 mn
- Director(s)
- Jón Bjarki MAGNÚSSON
- Producer(s)
- Hlín ÓLAFSDÓTTIR (SKAK bíófilm), Jón Bjarki MAGNÚSSON (SKAK bíófilm)
- Synopsis
- A lighthouse keeper prepares for his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect the elf within. Hulda and Trausti have shared a roof on Icelandic shores for over seventy years. Her love of books is matched by his love of stones. When he bursts out singing, she begs him to stop screaming. When he tells her he wants to change his name to "Elf", she warns that his family will abandon him. Now, as Trausti’s hundredth birthday approaches and he senses the hand of death upon him he is on a quest to find the coffin that can carry this elf back to the mysteries beyond.... Meanwhile, Hulda retreats into a world of poetry with the help of an electric magnifying glass. Half Elf is a modern Icelandic fairy-tale where life is celebrated - despite everything, despite ourselves and despite the reality that awaits all of us in the end.