42nd Nordic Film Days Luebeck

The director Baltasar Kormákur finds convincing images to contrast the breadth of the Icelandic landscape with the petit-bourgeois closeness of human relationships in the city. This debut film takes up the questions young people are asking themselves. And with its black humour it liberates us from a moralising view of life. 

The INTERFILM Jury awards a Special Prize to the actor Jesper Christensen as Kai in the film "The Bench". (Photo: © Ole Kragh-Jacobsen)