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