Cinema of the Faroe Islands

Due to its small population size and the high initial cost of filmmaking, the cinema history of the Faroe Islands is modest. The first film director of the Faroe Islands was Katrin Ottarsdóttir. Her first film set in the Faroe Islands was Atlantic Rhapsody (1989).

The first feature films in Faroese language with full Faroese castings, Rannvà (1975), Heystblómur (1976) and Pall Fángi (1977), were made in the mid-1970s by Miguel Marín Hidalgo, a Spaniard who stayed for several years in the Faroe Islands. In July 2015, the three films were screened again in the Faroe Islands, at the Nordic House in Tórshavn, with the presence of its writer, Miguel Marín Hidalgo. The Faroese national broadcaster, Kringvarp Føroya, broadcast Rannvá on 25 and 27 December 2016 and Heystblómur on 1 and 3 January 2017.

Recently self-taught Johan Rimestad directed the self-financed feature Karrybollarnir, which takes place in Tórshavn.

In 2012, the first Faroese film prize, the Geytin, was established. The young Faroese director Sakaris Stórá won the first award for his short film Summarnátt (transl. Summer night). In 2013, he directed a new short film Vetrarmorgun (transl. Winter morning), which was awarded at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2014, grants for filmmaking were on the Faroese Government Budget (fíggjarlógin) for the first time. 22 applied for a grant, 9 of these received a grant; all together, the grants were worth 485 000 Danish krone.^[1]

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Cinema of the Faroe Islands

List of films of the Faroe Islands

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