NEST
A story about brothers who build a tree house together over the course of a year. Alongside them, we experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
DIRECTION, SCREENPLAY Hlynur Pálmason PRODUCTION Snowglobe, Join Motion Pictures PRODUCERS Katrin Pors, Anton Máni Svansson, Eva Jakobsen, Mikkel Jersin EDITING Julius Krebs Damsbo SOUND DESIGN Björn Viktorsson MUSIC Alex Zhang Hungtai INTERNATIONAL SALES New Europe Film Sales STARRING Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Berlinale International Film Festival 2022
Mejor Cortometraje en UK Film Festival London
Premio del Jurado Joven en Festival Tous Courts
Peer Award International Short Film Festival Leuven
Karlovy Vary IFF
Curtas Vila do Conde IFF
HollyShorts Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Odense International Film Festival
Festival de Cine de San Sebastián 2022
Leeds IFF
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
PÖFF Shorts
Hlynur Pálmason
Artist and filmmaker born in 1984 in Iceland. He started out as a visual artist and continued his film career by training at the National Film School of Denmark. He has directed the feature films “A white, White day” and “Winter Brothers” and the acclaimed “Godland” awarded at Cannes and the European Film Awards, nominated for an Oscar in 2023. Pálmason lives and works in Iceland and Denmark with his wife and three children.
