VIKTORIA
When her only employee leaves for better opportunities, Victoria struggles to keep the family farm going, but times have changed around her. The farm, which has been in her family for generations and was once a place full of life, has become a thing of the past.
DIRECTION, SCREENPLAY Brúsi Ólason PRODUCTION Kvarki Films, Kári Úlfsson, Maggie Briggs EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Ingi Óskarsson STARRING Ingrid Jónsdóttir CINEMATOGRAPHY Magga Vala SOUND Sindri Þór Kárason ART DIRECTION Sigríður Regína EDITING Brúsi Ólason SOUND DESIGN Jóhann Vignir Vilbergsson MUSIC Daði Freyr Pétursson
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2018
Clermont-Ferrand ISFF 2019
Nominado NP Awards Best Nordic Short Film NORDISK PANORAMA 2018
SHORTFISH Award at Stockfish Film Festival
Brúsi Ólarson
He grew up on a farm outside the town of Selfoss in southern Iceland. He graduated from Columbia University’s Master of Film in New York in 2020, where he studied writing and directing. In his films, he explores themes such as relationships, communication, and the unstoppable urge to connect with other human beings and how we fail or succeed in doing so. Currently, he is a professor of directing in the film program at the Icelandic University of the Arts.
