Films to be screened at our upcoming event
"Agony of the soul" Directed Eir í Ólavsstovu
This documentary travels back in time to investigate the truth behind the mental illness that struck artist Elin Josefina Smith. When Elin was 18 years old, she was raped. To cover up his crime, the perpetrator reported her to the police for drug dealing. The incident triggered a severe psychological breakdown, leading to her hospitalization and the loss of all her faculties. After spending many years in and out of psychiatric institutions, she was permanently discharged a few years ago and pronounced well. Elin was a high school student in Hoydalar when she was involuntarily committed under extreme circumstances. It was a profound shock to her friends and classmates, none of whom ever knew the real story until today.
"In Half " Directed Jorge Morais Valle
Through a child's imagination it tells the journey of a man who after falling prey to his fears, he must cross a strange world, a universe full of magic, where he will be confronted with his own fears and conflicts from the past and where he must find solutions for the future to discover his self-identity.
(Extended synopsis)
In Half unfolds through the eyes of a child whose imagination becomes the lens through which we witness one man's unraveling. Crushed beneath the weight of his own fears, he finds himself pulled into a world at once enchanting and deeply unsettling, a place that obeys not the logic of the waking world, but the hidden logic of the psyche.
Within this realm, suspended between dream and reality, every creature, every landscape, and every obstacle reflects the wounds, losses, and unresolved conflicts he has spent a lifetime trying to outrun. To move forward, he must turn toward the parts of himself he buried long ago and understand that fear is not an adversary, but a threshold to be crossed.
In Half is a visual fable about human vulnerability and our capacity for transformation, a reminder that even what seems broken still carries the quiet possibility of renewal.
"The Pavilion" Directed by Dino Musstafic
After years of enduring torture from the staff and receiving increasingly poor service for their money, a group of residents of the nursing home 'Pavilion' decides to stage an armed uprising. A group of elderly men and women, armed with illegally acquired weapons, occupy the 'Pavilion,' taking the management and medical staff hostage, and entering into conflict with the authorities. The rebels turn a seemingly hopeless situation into their advantage, drawing media attention and manipulating the political elite, whose reactions are influenced by the fact that the hostage crisis occurred during an election year. The police are targeted whenever they attempt to put an end to the protest. The uprising in the 'Pavilion' results in the establishment of a new internal order whose initiators do not shy away from brutal violence in an attempt to seek revenge for all the injustice and suffering they have endured. While the police and politicians search for ways to suppress the uprising, the rebels benefit from their own old age, in which, unlike their opponents in the outside world and even the captives, they have the least to lose. Because of this, negotiations with them are nearly impossible, while their determination for life to triumph over death is endless.
