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Grapevine Events: RAKEL, Skjaldborg Screenings, Opera Days
Reykjavík’s currently the overcast city we know and love, but there’s no harsh wind making it harder to walk from gallery to museum to venue. So no excuses! Here’s our roundup of everything happening around town this weekend. Lucrezia Costa’s exhibition Somewhere…
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Grapevine Events: Vaka Festival, Skjaldborg & IceDocs Documentary Day & More
This week we were graced with not a day, but a whole streak of sunny weather. With temperatures continuing to drop, and the news that venomous spiders might be swarming through Grafarvogur, you could be forgiven for cosying up at home. But…
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Charged For Adventure
“Hey, Tesla, take me to the Westfjords.” There are two types of people — those who love camping and those who don’t. Thinking about these polar opposites, I always recall a New Girl episode where Schmidt exclaims, “Camping?” to which Winston adds,…
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Grapevine Events: HAM, Viibra Release Show, Art Book Fair & New Hot Happenings Episode
Things truly get heated up on this week’s edition of Hot Happenings, as we have an absolutely fire discussion with Icelandic music industry expert Anna Jóna Dungal. A wearer of many hats in the industry with a rich and varied background, she…
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Grapevine Events: Bashar Murad Concert, Skjaldborg & More
This week on our Hot Happenings episode of 66 Degrees of Sound we highlight the upcoming lectures by Dr. Mads Gilbert, “Gaza 2024: A catastrophic man-made disaster. What can we do?”, facilitated by Félagið Ísland-Palestína (Iceland-Palestine Association). The Norwegian health care worker…
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Skjaldborg Calling
The cinematic celebration returns to Patreksfjörður May 17 to 20 As I meet Kristín Andrea Þórðardóttir and Sigríður Regína Sigurþórsdóttir, members of the Skjaldborg production team, I’m eager to learn what’s in store for this year’s event. Sigga Regína is quick to…
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Movies On The Fjord: A Taste of Skjaldborg
A couple in their seventies strolling towards the cinema, clutching a six-pack of beer. A steadfast group of 10-year-olds always claiming the central seats in the front row. A duo of filmmakers taking turns between movie screenings and babysitting the children. Local…
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Grapevine Events: Acidfest, Skjaldborg, Ólöf Arnalds & More
The last weekend of the month is upon us, and there are surprisingly few events happening in town for some reason. Maybe it’s the yellow level storm warning, maybe bookers are just considering our end-of-month drained bank accounts, maybe it’s Maybelline. Whatever…
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Documentary Lovers Flock To The West For Skjaldborg
Skjaldborg, Iceland’s famous documentary film festival, returns to Patreksfjörður May 26 to 29. Over the course of the festival weekend, the local cinema will host film premieres, a documentary competition, a parade, a limbo competition and a fish stew feast. The festival’s…
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Stories And Connections In The Far West: Skjaldborg Returns
The Skjaldborg festival has nurtured Iceland’s documentary scene since its inception in 2007. Like most other aspects of society, it wasn’t exempt from COVID’s unrelenting grasp. As the saying goes: “You never know what you’ve got till it’s gone.’’ Something tells us…
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The Virtual Village: Pawel Ziemilski’s Documentary ‘In Touch’ Reunites Fractured Families
The winner of the coveted jury’s prize at this years Skjaldborg Film Festival was Polish director Pawel Ziemilski, for ‘In Touch’ his poignant and artistic documentary portraying the fractured community of Stare Juchy in Northern Poland. 400 inhabitants of this village—something like a…
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The Magic Formula: The Skjaldborg Icelandic Documentary Festival Returns
The medium of the documentary has been enjoying a renaissance lately, whether in big budget productions or quirky and independent projects. Long before documentaries on everything from Iceland’s volcanoes to teenagers in Singapore making their own film started blowing up on Netflix,…
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Skjaldborg Festival: I’ll Be Back!
Rain and wind, followed by some hail is typical spring weather in the Westfjords. That was the scenario in Patreksfjörður during Skjaldborg Festival of Icelandic Documentaries, which took place earlier this month. Thankfully, though, it’s is not an outdoor festival—it’s a n event where…
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Bridging Cultures: “Kanema’s Song” Wins Both Awards At Skjaldborg
“In the year 2000, when my daughter Kanema was about three years old, there weren’t that many mixed families in Iceland, nor mixed children,” says Anna Þóra Steinþórsdóttir. “I used to go with her to do groceries and people would always be…
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Skjaldborg Film Festival Is Fuelling Creativity In Patreksfjörður
If there is one thing Icelanders are masters at, it’s organising a festival. Music, film and art fairs pop up regularly on the country’s event calendar, and though you don’t need an excuse to go out with friends, drink and experience something…
