Directed by Hlynur Pálmason

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason

5 Episodes

The expansive, wintry landscapes of rural Iceland and Denmark provide the majestic physical and psychological backdrops to the breathtaking films of director Hlynur Pálmason, whose acclaimed latest, THE LOVE THAT REMAINS, comes to theaters in January. Whether capturing the rift that forms between two brothers working in an isolated limestone quarry in his intense feature debut WINTER BROTHERS or the arduous journey of a Danish priest across nineteenth-century Iceland in his painterly epic GODLAND, Pálmason’s films employ a sensorially rich visual lyricism to probe profound questions of faith, masculinity, time’s passage, and the human relationship to nature.

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Directed by Hlynur Pálmason

5 Episodes

  • Hlynur Pálmason Interview
    17:17
    Hlynur Pálmason Interview
    Episode 1

    Hlynur Pálmason Interview

    Episode 1

    This interview with GODLAND director Hlynur Pálmason was recorded in 2023.

  • Winter Brothers
    1:33:07
    Winter Brothers
    Episode 2

    Winter Brothers

    Episode 2

    Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2017 • Iceland, Denmark
    Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears, Vic Carmen Sonne

    A simmering drama of isolation, sibling rivalry, and revenge plays out amid the stark, surreal landscape of a remote limestone quarry in the expressionistically stylized feature deb...

  • Godland
    2:23:06
    Godland
    Episode 3

    Godland

    Episode 3

    Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
    Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson

    The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychol...

  • Nest
    22:30
    Nest
    Episode 4

    Nest

    Episode 4

    Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
    Starring Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson

    Over the course of a year, Hlynur Pálmason captures the beauty and brutality of the seasons and the struggles and joys of three siblings as they construct a tree house in a re...

  • Joan of Arc
    1:01:20
    Joan of Arc
    Episode 5

    Joan of Arc

    Episode 5

    Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2025 • Iceland
    Starring Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson

    In Hlynur Pálmason’s at once rigorous and poetic companion piece to his feature THE LOVE THAT REMAINS, the director chronicles his own children as they craft a knight-like figure in th...

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