Welcome to Iceland
A road movie on foot
A film by Felix Tissi
Feature film, CinemaScope, 96 min, released in 2016
Written and directed: Felix Tissi
Cast: Marcus Signer, Dominique Jann, Maryam Zaree, Julia Brendler, Nicola Mastroberadino, Anton Zacher, Luise Zacher, Joost Siedhoff, Jochen Regelien, Liliane Naef
camera: Birgit Gudjonsdottir
Sound: Balthasar Jucker
Edit: Thomas Bachmann, Felix Tissi
Grading: Peter Guyer
Soundmix: Peter von Siebenthal
Distributor: Aardvark Filmemporium Mark Pasquesi
Producer: Pedro Haldemann
In the desolate Icelandic highlands, two lowbrow lovers lose their ride, a suited suicide his trigger finger, and a nuclear family their center. Losing their way and their reasons, they fall apart while coming together. A drama rich in comedy, arid plains, and empty stomachs.
Welcome to Iceland wins Bern Film Award 2016
press quotes
‘With Dominique Jann as a suicidal man and Marcus Signer as a neurotic family man, this laconically told tragicomedy boasts a stellar cast and, despite its provocative slowness, offers a fireworks display of absurd situational comedy and precise dialogue.’
Geri Krebs, NZZ
‘Ionescu on the Lava Rocks. It’s quite funny and delightfully quirky.’ (…) ‘demonstrates an artistic obstinacy that stands out refreshingly from the often lamented despondency of Swiss cinema.’
Regula Fuchs, Der Bund
Welcome to Iceland, Swiss humour on the Icelandic plains
Audiences at Solothurn responded enthusiastically to the film, a comedy that meets a certain need for “levity” and escape, topped off with a (healthy) dose of irony and humour in Swiss form. So yes, even the Swiss like to laugh, and loudly at that.
Cinéuropa, by Muriel Del Don
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World premiere at the Solothurn Film Festival 2016
Nominated for the Prix de Public 2016
Friday, 22 January 2016, Reithalle, 8:45 p.m.
Tuesday, 26 January 2016, Concert Hall, 11:30 a.m.
5. – 16.10.2016 Festival Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
22.-30.10 2016 Int. Filmfestival Molodist, Kiew
