Project Detail

Northern Comfort

Synopsis

A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course’s final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

Details

Year
2023
Type of project
Features
Running time
97 min
Director
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Producer
Grímar Jónsson
Editor
Kristján Loðmfjörð
Screenwriter
Halldór Laxness Halldórsson, Tobias Munthe, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
Director of Photography
Niels Thastum
Production Designer
Eggert Ketilsson, Hulda Helgadóttir
Composer
Daníel Bjarnason
Principal cast
Lydia Leonard, Timothy Spall, Ella Rumpf, Sverrir Guðnason, Simon Manyonda, Rob Delaney

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Iceland, UK, Germany co-production

Good Chaos (UK), Netop Films (IS), ONE TWO Films (DE)

Sales Company

Charades (World sales excluding US)

Charades
17 boulevard Jules Ferry
75011 Paris

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