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In a small coastal town on the Faroe Islands, a compact factory thrums away. Inside, a steel-faced Kári (Sámal H. Hansen) toils away amongst other factory workers, gutting fish in time with the rhythm…
The film that Baltasar Kormákur made immediately prior to Touch (Snerting) was Beast (2022) a survival adventure where Idris Elba punches a lion. Seeing the Icelandic director’s name attached to a hea…
Fallen Leaves forms the fourth part of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Proletariat’ series, after Shadows in Paradise, Ariel, and The Match Factory Girl. Although it is centred around a love story…
The Sámi people have long lived in the Sápmi region, which includes the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia. Until recently, they have farmed reindeer, and fished for their…
To an extent every biopic is a work of imaginative fiction. What the director and writer choose to include and exclude, the primary focus on the subject, the details that are exaggerated or in part fa…
Biographical films can be unwieldy beasts. If the subject is well known enough the audience has set expectations on what the film will cover and how it will achieve an authentic portrait of its subjec…