Festivals & Awards
2020
Filmfestival Max Ophֳ¼ls Preis
2019
RIFF Reykjavik International Film Festival
Hilke Rönnfeldt, born in Northern Germany with Icelandic-Danish roots, is a writer/director whose work revolves around life in small communities, loneliness, intimacy and the sea. She is a Screen Talent Europe (2016) and a film fund Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein writer’s lab (2018) alumna. After her graduation from Swedish Alma Löv Academy in Screenwriting in 2019, she joined independent film collective Super16 in Copenhagen.
A cosmopolitan and polyglot by heart, Hilke writes and directs wherever it takes her. Preferably somewhere by the sea.
Essential for her writing: To be real and aim for the heart.
She has a strong faith in the poetic capability of the image.
Director: Hilke Rönnfeldt
filmmaker's profileTeenager Saga lives with her mother Hildur on a trout farm in the Icelandic fjords. Summer has come to an end, the days become colder and darker and Saga observes her mother drifting deeper into her own darkness. One stormy night tragedy strikes.
Duration: 20 min.
Country: Iceland
Language: Icelandic
Year: 2019
Genre: Fiction (Drama)
Topic: Adolescence, coming of age
Director: Hilke Rönnfeldt
Producer: NyArkMedia
Writer: Hilke Rönnfeldt
Actors: Helena Heðinsdóttir Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir David Bredin Hafsteinn Thorsson
Filmfestival Max Ophֳ¼ls Preis
RIFF Reykjavik International Film Festival