Atli, father of a four-year-old daughter, breaks up with his partner and moves in his parents’ house, where he is sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors regarding the shadow of an old and beautiful tree – a dispute that gradually intensifies, as property is damaged, pets mysteriously go missing, and a rumor travels that the neighbor was seen with a chainsaw. The favorite subject-matter of Northern European fiction – the disintegration of social bonds that takes place behind well-preserved house walls – emerges through an intricate polyphonic composition that brings harmony into chaos.
Under the Tree
Undir Trénu
58th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
- Script: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Huldar Breiðfjörð
- Cinematography: Monika Lenczewska
- Editing: Kristján Loðmfjörð
- Sound: Björn Viktorsson, Frank Mølgaard Knudsen, Sylvester Holm
- Music: Daníel Bjarnason
- Actors: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
- Production: netop films, Profile Pictures, Madants, one two films
- Producers: Grímar Jónsson, Sindri Páll Kjartansson, Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson
- Art Direction: Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany
- Production Year: 2017
- Duration: 89΄
- Contact: New Europe Film Sales
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1978. He is a graduate of the prestigious film program at Columbia University, New York. His first feature film Either Way screened at film festivals all around the world and was re-made in the US as Prince Avalanche (starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch). Hafsteinn was selected as one of “Variety’s Ten European Directors to Watch” in 2012.
Filmography
2007 Feature Skröltormar
2011 Á annan veg | Either Way
2014 París Norðursins | Paris of the North
2017 Undir trénu | Under the Tree
