Johan and Emil are two radically different brothers who work in a limestone factory in a small Danish village. The former is down-to-earth, hard-working, handsome and agreeable, while the latter is inelegant and insecure, a daydreamer who goes unnoticed. Their passionate and troublesome relationship doesn’t fit into words and isn’t translated into action; therefore, the director describes it through astonishing frames, in a slow-burning and suspenseful narrative about the endless winters of family ties.
Winter Brothers
Vinterbrødre
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Hlynur Pálmason
- Script: Hlynur Pálmason
- Cinematography: Μaria Von Hausswolff
- Editing: Lars Halvorsen
- Sound: Lars Halvorsen
- Music: Toke Brorson Odin
- Actors: Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Lars Mikkelsen
- Production: Masterplan Pictures AS
- Producers: Julie Waltersdorph, Hansen Per Damgaard Hansen, Hlynur Pálmason
- Co-production: Join Motion Pictures
- Art Direction: Gustav Pontoppidan
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Denmark, Iceland
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 94΄
- Distribution in Greece: StraDa Films
- Contact: New Europe Film Sales
Hlynur Pálmason
Hlynur Pálmason is an artist and filmmaker born in 1984 in Iceland. He started out as a visual artist and continued his career in filmmaking by pursuing education at the Danish National Film School. His graduation film, A Painter (2013), won the Best Short Film Award at Odense IFF and Reykjavík IFF, and was nominated for an award by the Danish Film Academy. His latest short film, Seven Boats (2014) premiered at Toronto IFF. His debut film Winter Brothers premiered in the main competition in Locarno in 2017. Hlynur lives in Copenhagen with his fiancé and three children and is currently working on his second feature, A White, White Day, parallel with exhibiting art work and video installations.
Filmography
2017 Winter Brothers
