Nordic Nights Movie Series: Children of Nature

Ryerson - Image Arts Building Rm 307 122 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario

CHILDREN OF NATURE (Börn Náttúrunnar) The only Icelandic film ever nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's moving breakthrough feature is a poignant, elegiac, and lightly magicrealist portrait of what (and who) was lost in Iceland's drive towards modernization. The film opens as the aged Þorgeir (Gísli Halldórsson) bids a silent […]