A Letter from Helga

• Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
• 112 min
• Iceland, Netherlands, Estonia
• 2022
• Fiction

In an isolated community in Iceland, among wondrously beautiful mountains, valleys, and rocky shores, passionate and forbidden love is pitted against fidelity, inheritance, and obligation.

World War Two is raging in faraway Europe, but in the small Icelandic community, the residents have gathered to celebrate the lambing season with bonfires, dancing, and traditional wrestling. During the evening, a rumour begins to flourish about the respected sheep farmer Bjarni and the young neighbour lady Helga. They both share an interest in literature and are members of the local book club, and in addition live in marriages that fail to provide what they long for. Rumour will very well prove to precede passion in Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir’s (The Swan, GFF 2018) poetic and visually magnificent drama in which a letter, many years later, asks painful questions about life choices and about a life together that never happened.

- Tobias Åkesson

• Kärlek
• Epok
• Drama
• Natur
• Landsbygd
• Litteratur