Paris-based The Party Film Sales and Heather Millard of Iceland’s Compass Films have reunited with “When the Light Breaks” director Rúnar Rúnarsson on his next poetic filmic venture “O.” The Icelandic ...

Paris-based The Party Film Sales has boarded renowned Icelandic auteur Rúnar Rúnarsson’s fourth pic, “When the Light Breaks,” which is selected for Göteborg’s Nordic Film Market’s works in progress ...

Runar Runarsson’s Icelandic feature When The Light Breaks led the winners at the 48 th Goteborg Film Festival, taking the Dragon Award for best Nordic film. Runarsson’s film, which opened the Cannes ...

When The Light Breaks, the latest film from Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson, has won the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at this year’s Göteborg Film Festival. The award is the festival’s top ...

film profile] offers a portrait of a society in 56 separate scenes taking place in the countryside, in a museum, in somebody’s perfectly lit living room or even by the unusually safe highway.

Three rising stars of European cinema, Iceland’s Runar Runarsson, France’s Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Belgium’s Joachim Lafosse – won out big-time at the 2015 San Sebastian Film Festival, vindicating the ...