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Of Horses and Men (Hross i oss) Iceland, 2013,

80 Minute Running Time. US Premiere at 25th PSIFF. 

Topics: Black Comedy, Cult Program: Awards Buzz : Best Foreign Language Film Language: Icelandic English Sub-Titles

Awards: Nominated: Kutxa – New Director Award This very dry, very Icelandic comedy is a country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced with immense consequences. Through several interlinked short episodes we follow the inhabitants of an isolated hamlet.

Director Erlingsson says: “This is not a straightforward story. I hope that the English title, Of Horses and Men, gives the right point of view. The word that is missing, ‘stories’, is the key. And of course it must be said that here in the north, women are also men. It is important to state that no horses were hurt in the making of this film. The entire cast and crew are horse owners and horse lovers… I must admit, however, that there were some human actors that were traumatized during the shooting of the film, but I happen to know that they were still alive when this was written.”

Winner: New Director’s Award, San Sebastian Film Festival; Best Director, Tokyo Film Festival Filmmaker(s) attending: Director DIRECTOR: Benedikt Erlingsson Producer: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Christoph Thoke Editor: David Alexander Corno Screenwriter: Benedikt Erlingsson Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson Music: David Thor Jonsson Principal Cast: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Steinn Armann Magnusson, Helgi Björnsson, Charlotte Bøving, Atli Rafn Sigurdarson, Halldora Geirhardsdottir, Kjartan Ragnarsson Filmography: Debut Feature Print Source: Icelandic Film Centre

View film's official website here: http://hrosss.is/