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FÁR

Year 2023
Runtime 5 mins
Language Icelandic
Subtitles English
Alberta Premiere

This short film is included in the following package(s): SHORTS: AFTER LAUGHTER COMES TEARS


At a busy downtown café, a woman zones out during a business meeting. A drifting seagull hits the window. The customers notice the incident but quickly stop paying attention. The woman, too, tries to ignore the event but is unable to shake it off. She notices the seagull is still alive but greatly suffering so heads outside to euthanize the bird. Some children watch and yell at her for trying to kill the seagull. She eventually twists the bird's neck and the children move back to their games. While she buries the bird in a nearby flowerbed, her colleagues and the customers stare at her.

Countries

Iceland
Director
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Producer
Rúnar Ingi Einarsson, Sara Nassim
Screenwriter
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, Anní Ólafsdóttir
Cinematographer
Eli Arenson
Editor
Brúsi Ólason , Guðlaugur Andri Eyþórsson
Cast
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter , Jörundur Ragnarsson