Solitude

• Ninna Pálmadottir
• 75 min
• Iceland, Slovakia
• 2023
• Fiction

Touchingly depicted about cross-generational friendship and the world's reflexive distrust when unspoken boundaries are crossed in Ninna Pálmadóttir's convincing debut film.

Gunnar, a weathered and silent man, is forced to leave his farm in the Icelandic countryside after it has been expropriated by the authorities. Without looking back, he turns his back on his former life and moves into a small apartment in the city. The new existence does not arouse much enthusiasm in him, but when, after some initial irritation, he gets to know his equally lonely neighbor boy Ari, 10 years old, it becomes the beginning of something unexpected and new. Rúnar Rúnarsson (Sparrow GFF 2016) provides the script for a sensitive and touching film that explores the landscape of loneliness and highlights our need for human contact.

- Tobias Åkesson

• Vänskap
• Stad
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• Drama