Winter Brothers

""Challenging, deeply weird and yet peculiarly compelling directorial debut""

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Hlynur Pálmason
  • Denmark, Iceland 2017
  • 94 minutes
  • Danish, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Johan and his younger brother Emil are two miners working in a rural chalk-mining community during a cold winter. Emil, a loner, longs for love and distills moonshine made from stolen chemicals from the factory; Johan is more measured, better liked. Soon their routines, habits, and rituals will be ruptured by a violent feud with a neighboring family.

Hlynur Pálmason’s feature debut, winner of the Best Actor Award in Locarno, shows a unique vision, fierce aesthetics, and an eye for telling detail that mark him as a talent to watch.

Winner of the Locarno Festival Leopard prize for Best Actor 

Feature Debut | The film contains scenes of a disturbing nature


  • Director Hlynur Pálmason
  • Production Julie Waltersdorph Hansen, Per Damgaard Hansen, Hlynur Pálmason, Anton Máni Svansson
  • Script Hlynur Pálmason
  • Cinematography Maria Von Hausswolff
  • Editing Julius Krebs Damsbo
  • Music Toke Brorson Odin
  • Festivals Locarno (Best Actor Award), Toronto
  • Actors Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Lars Mikkelsen
  • Source New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw