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Zagreb Film Festival
19 - 25 October 2008

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ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
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No Network / DuggholufĂłlkið
Iceland , 2007

Directed by: Ari Kristinsson
Script: Ari Kristinsson
Producer: Ari Kristinsson, Margrét María Pálsdóttir, Richard Welnowski
Production company: Taka Film Production
Cinematography: Kjell Vassdal
Editing: ElĂ­sabet RonaldsdĂłttir
Cast: Bergthor Thorvaldsson, Thordis Hulda Arnadottir, Arni Beintein Arnason, Margret Akadottir, Erlender Eiriksson, Bryndis Saeunn, Magnus Olafsson

Format: boja, color, 35mm
Running time: 82'

Synopsis
Kalli, a young boy who is brought up by a single mother in the suburbs of Reykjavik, thrives in a world of imaginary characters, in a world where he gets most of his life experiences through screens: movies, television shows and computers. When he is sent to spend Christmas with his father and his father’s new family, far up north at a remote and isolated farm, he is taken out of that world and put in one where he has to fight real life challenges. he soon gets enough of the countrysides’ reality and decides to run away in the middle of winter, only to be hit harder by reality. he finds him self lost in a blizzard with no connection on his mobile phone and even has an encounter with a polar bear. As he seeks shelter in an abandoned farm he has to deal with a ghost. The ghost is terrifying at first, but Kalli discovers that it is virtual and there are ways to deal with it.

Awards
Sprockets Int’l Film Festival for Children - Best Feature Film Jury Kristiansand Int’l Children’s Film Festival - The CIFEJ Prize Zlin Film Festival (Youth & Children’s film festival in Czech Republic) - Audience Award

Directors Biography
Ari Kristinsson is a cinematographer, writer, producer and director from Iceland. His most prolific work is cinematography, but he authored several TV and feature films: DuggholufĂłlkið (2007), StikkfrĂ­ (1997), The Old Doll (1991), PappĂ­rs PĂ©si (1990), Enginn venjulegur drengur (1987)

Location and screening schedule: EUROPA cinema, Wednesday, October 22nd at 13.00



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