Lilja Þórisdóttir
2021
Magnús
Þráinn Bertelsson
Egill Ólafsson, Þórhallur Sigurðsson
Magnús is a 45-year-old lawyer, whose routine is upset by the personal news that he is suffering from cancer. This causes Magnús to stop and think about himself, his life and his family. If his life is going to end sooner than he expected, he wants to know how much it's been worth to him. Has life been worth living? Is it worth fighting for; is it worth a struggle against death? He takes a look at his family, a group of ordinary people, who are the colourful heroes of everyday life, struggling along in a world far removed from the world of high finance, power politics and international intrigues, but yet to them their lives are lives of high adventure. Those adventures, from the sublime to the ridiculous, form the storyline of the film, told against the background of Magnús' dilemma.
Magnús
Unholy Night
Arni Jonsson, Árni Þór Jónsson
Ari Matthíasson, Ísgerður Elfa Gunnarsdóttir
It is the night before Christmas and all through the decrepit school house nothing is stirring, not even a mouse. Well that is not exactly the truth, but what has happened in this weather beaten building in the barren Icelandic tundra is more akin to cruel fantasy than stark reality. A few days ago the participants of an experimental rehab clinic came there in order to cast out their inner demons, stay away from temptation and finally discover a little about their sober selves. That didn’t go quite according to plan, but they discovered Santa was real.
Örstutt Jól
Húsið
Egill Eðvarðsson
Lilja Þórisdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson
A young couple moves into an old house. She teaches deaf children, he is a musician, working on his own compositions. Their separate worlds, one silent, the other full of sounds, create a vivid pattern of contrasts, which affect their emotional lives and their living together. From the time they move into the house, they are strangely aware of something odd, especially she, while he concentrates more and more upon his work. A series of incidents adds to her growing uneasiness about the house. Its past seems to creep in on her. She feels as if some tragedy must have befallen the people that lived there before, but when she starts asking around she gets few answers. There is something about the house that seems to be on the verge of overpowering her - something that in an unexpected way is related to her origins and permanently affects her life and destiny.
The House
The Wedding Gift
Aron Þór Leifsson
Lilja Þórisdóttir, Hafsteinn Gunnar Hafsteinsson
The Wedding Gift tells a tale of a mother, a son and his wife and a sewing machine. Filmed almost entirely in a car, the cramped space gives tension to both the bumpy journey to a wedding and the characters’ psychology.
The Wedding Gift
