When the Light Breaks

From one loved-up Icelandic sunset to the next, a young woman experiences a vibrant odyssey of emotions as she is forced to reframe the future she’d hoped for.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Rúnar Rúnarsson

  • With

    Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir

  • Iceland-Netherlands-Croatia-France 2024. 80min

  • Courtesy of

    Modern Films

  • Language

    Icelandic

    With English subtitles

Introduction

When light breaks on a long summer’s day, young art student Una awakens filled with love’s warm glow. By sunset, her world is turned upside down. Writer-director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s beautiful and quietly breathtaking elegy of love, loss and acceptance, with its striking 16mm cinematography and exquisite design, amplified by Elín Hall’s captivating performance, captures a precise sense of time, place and mood.

Sarah Lutton

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