Thanks to collaboration with these two organizations, the facilities and space for the performance of the production in Iceland and the entire accompanying program will be provided. Tjarnarbíó (the Icelandic Performing Arts Centre) and Samtökin ‘78 (the National Queer Association of Iceland) are project partners. However, the first movie theaters are also opening, where the boy Máni (Moon) finds refuge and discovers not only his passion for film, but also the girl Sóla (Sun), who strikingly resembles the unrestrained and mysterious Irma Vep, the heroine of the dark crime series Les Vampires…Ĭzech premiere of the adaptation of the novel of the same name by contemporary Icelandic author Sjón. The Icelanders celebrate the victory of a century-long struggle for independence, but at the same time, an epidemic of Spanish flu breaks out and the volcano Katla erupts. Reykjavík in 1918, the last year of the First World War. However, the main and all-pervading motif is the freedom and independence of the individual, who accepts his “otherness” – hinsegin in Icelandic – as natural, and is able to live as an autonomous human being, regardless of the evaluation and judgment of his environment. “The story of the boy who never was” is a probe into the inner world of a lonely anti-hero, whose fate is determined by his sexual orientation and lack of family background. Tereza Hofová, Jan Cina, Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir, Aid Kid
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