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Directing
Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir
No biography available.
Known For
Seppi · 1992Seppi
1992
MovieFamily
The Deposit · 2019The Deposit
★ 5.02019
MovieDrama
Gisella dreams about writing important things, genuine things, and quits her job at the newspaper after yet another article is insensitively edited. She contacts a recently started alternative paper, where she is given the proposition of writing an article about the living situation among immigrants. Through her research she meets Marisol, Abeba and her daughter Lucinda, who live in a barrack by the harbor. To help solve their financial troubles, she invites them to live in her large house that she inherited from her grandmother. At first everything works well, but soon the mutual respect between the three women turns into a power struggle and hospitality is replaced with rules and a system of punishments.
Deep Winter · 1985Deep Winter
★ 6.21985
MovieDrama
The widow has inherited half of the farm, and is in league with a businessman from the village, who wants to buy the farm. Her purpose is to get her in-laws to sell her their share, and she is prepared to use any means to gain her ends. But soon she finds herself threatened by unknown persons or forces in the menacing winter landscape, to the point where her life is at stake.
Acting Out · 2021Acting Out
2021
MovieDocumentary
Edna Lupita investigates her life with the help of two professional actors who strive to connect her past to her present, her mental illness, and her suicidal thoughts.
That's What I Call Dance · 2008That's What I Call Dance
2008
MovieDocumentary
She is shy, sincere, beautiful and provoking both as a person and on stage. She is one of our best contemporaray dancers in Europe and has received several awards for her works.
Róska · 2005Róska
2005
MovieDocumentary
A documentary about the enigmatic Icelandic filmdirector Róska
Draumur um draum · 1996Draumur um draum
1996
MovieTV Movie
Vala, a young filmmaker, is working on a documentary about the writer Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir. Vala is editing the film, looking into Ragnheiður's books and examining footage related to her, including an old interview with Ragnheiður that she listens to on video. Ragnheiður's books about Þóra frá Havmmur are particularly dear to Vala's heart, and she imagines scenes and events from the books as if she were Þóra herself. Suddenly, Ragnheiður comes to life on the screen and starts talking to Vála, answering various nagging questions that are on her mind.
Noi, Pam and their men · 2002Noi, Pam and their men
2002
MovieDocumentary
A documentary by Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir focusing on two Thai women who originally came to Iceland to work in the fisheries but later settled with two Icelanders in the Öxarfjördur-region in the North-East of Iceland, one of them a shop-keeper and the other a sheep-farmer. The film not only shows daily life in rural Iceland near the Polar Circle but also the couples' trip to Thailand where life and surroundings are dramatically different to Öxarfjördur.
