When the Light Breaks (Ljósbrot)
Dir: Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2024, Iceland-Netherlands-Croatia-France, 82min, Language: Icelandic with English subtitles. BBFC:15
When light breaks on a long summer’s day, young art student Una awakens filled with love’s warm glow. By sunset, her world is turned upside down. Writer-director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s beautiful and quietly breathtaking elegy of love, loss and acceptance, with its striking 16mm cinematography and exquisite design, amplified by Elín Hall’s captivating performance, captures a precise sense of time, place and mood. Air latha samhraidh aig briseadh an latha, tha an neach-ealain òg Una a’ dùsgadh ann am blàths a’ ghràidh. Mus laighe a’ ghrian tha an t-saoghal bun os chionn dhith. Bheir am marbhrann aig an sgrìobhadair-stiùiriche Rúnar Rúnarsson ar anail fòidhpe le cumha, gaol, call agus caoidh. Tha na dealbhan film 16mm agus an dreach dealbhachaidh anabarrach, tha guth agus cleasachd Elín Hall ’s, a’ glacadh dearbh ùine, àite agus staid inntinn.
Winner of Best Nordic Film 2025 Gotenburg Film Festival and other awards.
Houston's Whitebeam / Gall-uinnseann Houston
Dirs: Alex Darby, Jake Morris. 2024 UK13 Min Language : English
At 80 years old, Libby Houston still climbs the 300-foot cliffs of Bristol's Avon Gorge (UK), studying the region's rare plant life. This is the story of her life's entanglement with the environment. Libby arrived in Bristol in the 1970s, grieving the loss of her husband and without the vibrant scene of British beatnik poets and artists in London she'd come to call home. Her enthusiasm for rock-climbing and her poet's eye combined with a newfound love of botany. This dedication filled her sense of loss and led to a host of new discoveries, establishing the area among the most important botanical sites in the UK. Aig 80 bliadhna dh’aois, tha Libby Houston fhathast a’ sreap na creagan 300 troigh a dh’àirde aig Avon Gorge am Bristol (RA), a’ rannsachadh lusan annasach an roinn. Seo sgeulachd a beatha leis an àrainneachd. Ràinig Libby am Bristol sna 1970an, a’ caoidh call an duine aice agus gun an sealladh beòthail de bhàird is luchd-ealain beatnik Breatannach an Lunnainn ris an canadh i dhachaigh. Ri linn an dealasach aice airson sreap chreagan agus sùil bàrdach agus an ùidh ùr airson luibh-eòlas, lìon a tabhartas na chaill i agus lean seo air adhart gu iomadach nuadh-lorgan, a’ stèidheachadh na sgìre am measg nan làraichean luibh-eòlasach as cudromaiche san RA.
