Film

Direction: Rúnar Rúnarsson

with Elín Hall, Mikael Kaaber, Katla Njálsdóttir, Baldur Einarsson
Island 2024, 80', Islandic with english subtitles, FSK 12

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  • DF: German version
  • OV: Original version without subtitles
  • OMU: Original version with German subtitles
  • OMEU: Original version with English subtitles
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When the Light Breaks

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OT: Ljósbrot

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.
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.