A White, White Day | Hvítur, hvítur dagur | Haifa International Film Festival

A taciturn former policeman in a small Icelandic enclave grows more complex before our eyes in the visually arresting and emotionally rewarding A White, White Day.

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Archive - Festival 35
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Iceland, Denmark, Sweden 2019
109 minutes
Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Iceland Academy Award Nominee

Ingimundur is an off-duty police chief from a remote Icelandic town whose wife died in a tragic accident two years ago. Ingimundur channels his grief into renovating a house but a chance discovery among her things makes him question whether he ever truly knew his wife. Soon, his obsession with uncovering the truth begins to consume him,

“A White, White Day brings to mind a cinematic version of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream… [It’s] grimly hypnotic… powerful and freshly thought out” - Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter.

Filmography: Winter Brothers (2017).

Director Hlynur Pálmason
Production Anton Máni Svansson
Script Hlynur Pálmason
Cinematography Maria von Hausswolff
Editing Julius Krebs Damsbo
Music Edmund Finnis
Festivals Cannes (Rising Star Award, Critics' Week, Cannes 2019) Karlovy Vary
Actors Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson, Elma Stefanía Ágústsdóttir
Source New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw