A phone call from Paris shatters 25 years of silence in this devastating Icelandic short.
The story of Ellinor and how she deals with the relationship with her father, as she gets the news of him being severely wounded in a hospital in Paris.
Acting
Kittelsen's face does devastating work without dialogue.
Direction
Ingolfsdottir trusts silence more than most feature directors.
Director
Lilja Ingolfsdottir
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Ingolfsdottir's graduation film from the National Film School of Denmark—she later expanded similar themes in her 2023 feature 'When the Light Breaks'.
The dual naming of Nick/Nicolas mirrors Ellinor's fractured understanding of her father—different names for different strangers.
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