Godland

• Hlynur Pálmason
• 143 min
• Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
• 2022
• Fiction

Breathtaking cinematography in Cannes-praised Godland, a fateful story about religion, colonialism and moral decay.

In the late-nineteenth century, a young, idealistic Danish priest (Elliot Crosset Hove) is sent to a remote part of Iceland with the purpose of erecting a church and photographing the locals. Consumed by his mission, he chooses to face the new country by crossing the island, but the merciless landscape and its inhabitants soon start wearing down his mind and challenging his faith. With an infallible cinematic vision and restrained humour, the Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason (Winter Brothers GFF 2018, A White, White Day GFF 2020) delivers a masterful epic where vanity, morals, and faith are pitted against an unforgiving and barren world.

- Tobias Åkesson

• Drama
• Religion
• Resa
• Kolonialism
• Kärlek