The thirteenth annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A

The thirteenth annual Scandinavian Film Festival L.A. comes to the Writers Guild Theater, Beverly Hills, and spans two weekends: January 7-8, 14-15, 2011. The yearly showcase of Nordic films and filmmakers, launched in 2000, screens the year’s Scandinavian films submitted to the Academy as nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film as well as other current feature, documentary, and short films

2 Icelandic entrees this year: 

Sunday January 8th 2012, 12:30 pm

VOLCANO

Eldfjall, Iceland, 2011, 95 minutes, Rúnar Rúnarsson

Icelandic submission for "Best Foreign Film" Academy Award.

When Hannes retires from his job as a janitor the big, empty time span that is the rest of his life begins. He is estranged from his family, has hardly any friends and the relationship to his wife has faded. Through drastic events, Hannes realizes that he has to adjust his life in order to help someone he loves. Volcano is a love story of someone who has to deal with the choices of the past and the difficulties of the present in order to embrace the future.

Saturday, January 13th 2012, 12:30 pm

EITHER WAY

Á annan veg, Iceland, 2011, 85 minutes, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson

Either Way is a subtle and playful dramatic comedy. In the remote north of Iceland in the mid 1980s, Finn and Alfred, two employees of the Icelandic Road Administration, spend the summer painting lines on the winding roads that stretch out to the horizon. With no-one but each other for company, the barren wilderness becomes a place of adventure, disaster and discovery as both men find themselves at crossroads in their lives.