Awards & Nominations For The Last Farm

Best shortfilm Nordisk Panorama 2004

Best shortfilm Kiev International Film Festival Molodist 2004

FIPRESCI JURY DIPLOMA
For the best shortfilm Kiev International Film Festival Molodist 2004

Best Short at EDDA awards 2004 The annual Icelandic film Academy awards.

Nomination for Jón Sigurbjörnsson in Edda Award 2004
The annual Icelandic film Academy awards.
Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role

DANZANTE AWARD - Best film of the Huesca Film festival 2005

The jury of the critics- Special mention at the Huesca Film festival 2005

Jury´s special mention- Shortshorts Filmfestival Tokyo 2005

The audience's choice-The 16th São Paulo International Short Film Festival 2005

Honorary Distinction- Drama International Short Film Festival 2005

Audience-award at the 9th International Short Film Festival Winterthur Schweiz 2005

Best Film of Spiritual Competition of 10th International & 22nd National Short Film Festival of theIranian Young Cinema Society in Iran 2005

Oscar Nomination 2006

Best Short at Durango Independent Film Festival 2006

Internatnional Award at the Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim 2006

First Price at The MUNICH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2006

Prémio Melhor Final - The Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Jovem de Espinho 2006

Golden Horse Man Youth Oscar - Filmfest Dresden 2006

ARTE Short Film Prize - Filmfest Dresden 2006

The Jurys special mention - THE CINEMA CORTO IN BRA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2006

Best Narrative Short Film - Magma Filmfestival 2006

Audience Award - My Europe Film Festival 2007

Second Place - REHOBOTH BEACH INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2008

Award in Rehoboth Beach

The Last Farm was awarded The Second Place For The Best Short Film at REHOBOTH BEACH INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2008 in The USA.
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Exground filmfest presents once again the highlights of independently produced short and feature films - about 250 productions, among them several premieres.

This year’s host country, Canada, will open the festival with THE NOVENA by BernardÉmond. Correspondingly, the retrospective is dedicated to David Cronenberg: five oeuvres of this master of puristic film language will be shown.

Other highlights are the German premiere of THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA by Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Altman's A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION as a Preview, TAKESHI'S by Takeshi Kitano as well as TIDELAND by Terry Gillian.

The short film section comprises over 200 productions and The Last Farm is one of them and will be screened the 19.11.2006 at 15.00 in Caligari FilmBühne in a program called DESIRE

http://exground-filmfest.de

The Last Farm will participate in an Icelandic Film Festival that will take place in The Varsity Theatre ,Sunday the 5th of November. The festival is organized by The Icelandic Club of Greater Seattle.

More info at
http://www.icelandseattle.com/

13th REGENSBURG SHORT FILM WEEK.

The Last Farm by Runar Runarsson has been selected for the International Competition of the 13th REGENSBURG SHORT FILM WEEK. The International Competition includes 59 short films which will be shown in 8 programmes. Each programme will be screened twice.

The screening dates of The Last Farm

International Competition 5
Saturday | November the18th, 08 p.m. at Ostentorkino
Tuesday | November the 21st, 06 p.m. at Filmgalerie (repetition)

kurzfilmwoche.de

22nd International Short Film Festival Berlin

From November 7 th – 12 th , 2006, interfilm Berlin will celebrate the 22 nd International Short Film Festival. Over 400 films, selected from the almost 4000 submitted, will make up an exciting program which promises to deliver a comprehensive look at current developments in international short film today.
Features, animations, documentaries, children's films, music clips and experimental films will compete in four categories for the favor of the jury and the audience.The Last Farm is one of them.

interfilm.de

The Last Farm in Romania

The Last Farm has been selected for the competitionstage of the ALTER-NATIVE 14 International Short Film Festival.
The festival will take place at Tg.-Mures, Romania between the 9th-12th of November.

www.madisz.ro

Scanorama 2006

"From 10th to 30th November 2006, Scanorama will set out on its traditional route across Lithuania – visiting Vilnius, Kaunas, and Klaipeda. The opening of the festival will take place at 19:00 November 10 in the Great Hall of the Forum Cinemas Vingis multiplex. This year, the Nordic films will be screened throughout Vilnius: Scanorama’s programme and its guests will be presented at the Forum Cinemas Vingis, selected programming will be screened in Forum Cinemas Akropolis and film center Skalvija. On November 17-23, Scanorama will visit Kaunas cinema Romuva and on November 24-30 move on to Klaipeda film center Cinamon."

"The closing feature of the „Northern Lights“ is “The Last Farm” (2005): an Oscar nominee, this is a strong, poetic, and moving film by Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson that is dominated by the distinctive Icelandic landscape."

http://www.kino.lt/scanorama4/index.php?query=main_en

The Last Farm in Catalonia

The Last Farm was selected for The III International Short-Film Festival of the Lleida district, Borges en Curt, that will take place in the town of Les Borges Blanques in Catalonia during the second two weeks in September.
The aim of the Festival is to show a selection of the best short films recently produced at home and abroad.
The Festival is organised by Zoom Associació Cultural and Les Borges Blanques Town Council.

Honour At Magma Filmfestival

"The Last Farm" has obtained the special mention as Best Narrative Short Film at Magma 2006, ex-aequo with "Màxima Pena" by Juanjo Giménez (ESP).

The jurys comment:

“for the extraordinray poetry of images, the strength of the character
dipped in an extreme landscape, and for the rigorous narrative
structure”

www.magmafestival.org

The 5th Hull International Short Film Festival

The Last farm is in the International Competition at The 5th Hull International Short Film Festival that will take place at Hull Screen and other venues around the city from 27 September to 1 October 2006.
Please visit the events pages for a full festival programme.

http://www.hullfilm.co.uk/

OFFICIAL SELECTION

The Last Farm will take part of the 5th edition of The Silhouette Filmfestival that will take place between the 21st-27th of August in Paris in the Buttes Chaumont Park, 19th district.
A whole week of outdoor short film screenings.
An eclectic and quality program, including Frence and International films, as well as special corean focus.

http://www.association-silhouette.com/

The Last Farm in Melbourne

The Melbourne Film Festival takes place between the 26th of July to the 13th of August. Showcasing the cream of the crop from over 1000 entries, MIFF shorts encompasses everything from fiction to documentary to experimental to animation. Around 100 selected films will be screened in what has become Australia’s premiere competition for local and international short films, offering the richest cash prize pool ($35,000). High on quality, MIFF shorts has gained industry kudos for championing the short film as an art form in its own right.

http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/2006_Festival/shorts.php

OFFICIAL SELECTION

The Last Farm will take place at the vienna International Shortfilmfestival that takes place 6th - 8th og july.
http://www.shortfilmcompetition.at

OFFICIAL SELECTION

"The Last farm" has been selected for the narrative
competitive category of the 5th edition of Magma
international short film festival.

The festival will take place in Acireale, Sicily,
Italy, between 14 and 17 september

You can find the list of the selected shorts on our
website www.magmafestival.org.

ECOCINEMA FESTIVAL IN ATHENS

As in previous years, this year's ECOCINEMA Festival will host a selection of recent productions (made in the last two years) giving a picture of the world and the vital issues which concern us in the early 21st century – man and the environment, globalisation, societies in crisis, war, - but also the solutions found by people, communities, movements, who resist and in the end produce their own civilization. The criteria for selecting the films remain, as always, the sensitivity of the film maker's view, the radicalism of the subject, the final artistic result. The festval takes place between the 11th - 17th of may in Athens and The Last Farm is in the Shortfilm program.
http://www.ecocinema.gr

Icelandic Film Festival in San Francisco

Icelandic Film Festival in cooperation with SOMA Magazine and Iceland Naturally Monday May 22, 2006 Castro Theatre
Schedule:
Double Features at 12:00pm & 6:00 pm
Screaming Masterpiece & The Last Farm 2005 academy award nominated live action film short
Noi Albinoi @ 3:30 p.m.
**Special Icelandic reception for guests following the final showing of Screaming Masterpiece and The Last Farm @ 7:30 pm.

Screaming Masterpiece and The Last Farm at 12:00 (noon) and 6:00 p.m.
Screaming Masterpiece delves into the Icelandic music scene and uncovers a thriving community of artists from all genres of music. Screaming Masterpiece asks the question: why is the small Icelandic community so music mad?

The Last Farm was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award live action film short - The first Academy Award nominations for Runar Runarsson and Thor S. Sigurjonsson. An elderly man keeps a secret from the outside world as he reacts to the possibility that he will no longer be able to remain on his isolated farm.

Noi Albinoi at 3:30 p.m.
Noi Albinoi: Is he the village Idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world and only a natural disaster will shatter Noi's universe and offer him a window into a better world.

More information at: http://www.icelandnaturally.com/sanfest.shtml or contact: Eric Mason - 650.533.0836 - ericmason@gmail.com

Purchase Tickets: $10.00.
www.castrotheatre.com

Jurys special mention in Italy

The Last Farm received The Jurys special mention at THE CINEMA CORTO IN BRA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2006
http://www.cortoinbra.it

The Last Farm in Rome

The Last Farm will take part in The Tekfestival 2006 “Ai confini del mondo… dentro l’occidente”, the international festival of independent cinema which will be held in Rome from May 4h to May 9th at Cinema Augustus, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 203.
TEKFESTIVAL presents the screening of the latest independent and social film production and hosts many international premieres. The Roman festival is divided into 9 sections and will present 100 films, including many national and local premieres which will animate a programme that aims at the most involving scenarios of our time through extensive works but also through small but meaningful stories of everyday life
www.tekfestival.it

Golden Horse Man Youth Oscar & ARTE Short Film Prize

The Last Farm got The Golden Horse Man Youth Oscar and The ARTE Short Film Prize at The 18th Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival. The Festival webpage is:
http://www.filmfest-dresden.de/

Prémio Melhor Final

The Last Farm got The Prémio Melhor Final Award at The Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Jovem de Espinho.
www.fest.pt

The Last Farm At AVIFF

Now in its tenth year, the Antelope Valley Independent Film Festival (AVIFF) has developed a reputation as a filmmaker-friendly festival with standing-room only crowds and lively post-screening discussions. The festival located in north Los Angeles County takes place between the 21th - 23th of April.

http://www.aviff.com

1th Price at MUNICH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

The Last Farm got the first price at The MUNICH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

http://www.muc-intl.de/

The International Award in Trondheim

The Last Farm got the Internatnional Award at the Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim.The award was decided by the audience.

http://www.minimalen.com/pris06.php

THE LAST FARM takes part in a short film night tour arround in switzerland in a special programm by the international short film festival winterthur. The tour starts next Friday 31 march in the cinema arthouse le paris in Zurich.
http://www.kurzfilmnacht-tour.ch/de/index.html?page=http://www.kurzfilmnacht-tour.ch/de/zurich.html

Official selection

The Last Farm is selected for The Munich International Short Film Festival takes place March 24-26, 2006 at the Mathaeser in the Bavarian capitol of Munich Germany. Five programs of the best recent short films in the world, assigned to the five basic tastes. Films range from the rare gem of exotic cultures to winners of renowned short film awards such as the Oscar®, the Prix UIP or the Jameson Award.
http://www.muc-intl.de/

Best Short at Durango Independent Film Festival

The 2006 Inaugural Durango Independent Film Festival in Colorado concluded on Sunday March 5th, with a spirited award ceremony in the Abbey Theater offering over 15 film and filmmaker awards and it’s first ever Sponsor Spirit of Film Award. This celebration of the Independent Filmmakers was heavily attended and offered a very successful close to a very successful event.

Among the 2006 Durango Independent Film Festival award winners was The Last Farm as Best Live Action Short

www.durangofilm.org

Official selection

The last Farm is in The Official selection at The Festival De Cinema e Video Jovem De Espinho in Portugal. Further information’s at WWW.fest.pt

USA Theater Screenings

Shorts International recently teamed with Magnolia Pictures to launch screenings of all 10 Oscar nominated shorts from the live action and animated categories in select theaters around the U.S. The films opened in select markets on February 24 and will continue for the next few weeks. "Distribution initiatives like these are exciting to be involved with and we are glad to have the opportunity to showcase these fantastic films," said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles in a release. More information can be found at their Web site.
Animated and Live-Action Short Film Nominees On Screen
Chicago, IL: Gene Siskel Film Center
Denver, CO: Starz Filmcenter
Indianapolis, IN: Greenbriar Cinema Grill
Los Angeles, CA: Fairfax Cinemas
Pleasantville, NY: Jacob Burns Film Center
New York, NY: Cinema Village
Seattle, WA: Varsity Theatre
Santa Rosa, CA: Rialto Cinemas Lakeside
San Francisco, CA: Lumiere Theatre
Berkeley, CA: Shattuck Cinemas
Salinas, CA: Maya Salinas 14 Cinemas

Animated and Live-Action Short Film Nominees Opening

3/4/2006
Wichita, KS: Wichita Public Library
3/10/2006
San Diego, CA: Hillcrest Cinemas
Provincetown, MA: New Art Cinema
Bloomfield Hills, MI: Maple Art Theatre
3/17/2006
Tampa, FL: Tampa Theatre
Minneapolis, MN: Lagoon Cinema
Tulsa, OK: Circle Theatre
Pittsburgh, PA: Melwood Screening Room
3/24/2006
Fort Worth, TX: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
4/21/2006
Tucson, AZ: Loft Cinema Twin
5/3/2006
Nevada City, CA: Magic Theatre
5/12/2006
Brookline, MA: Coolidge Corner Theatre
http://www.magpictures.com/dates.aspx?id=c587e620-3083-423a-8b32-dc952d4b592b

35th New Directors/ New Films

The Last Farm will take part of the 35th New Directors/ New Films in The Museum of Modern Art NY (MoMA). The screenings for The Last Farm are the 25th of mars at 17:45 (MoMA) and the 26th of mars at 20:15 (WRT).
New Directors/New Films is one of the country’s premier showcases for the work of fresh and unsung international and American filmmakers. Over the course of more than three decades, the festival has introduced innovative works by talented directors from all over the world, many of whom have become major figures in world cinema, including Pedro Almodóvar, Héctor Babenco, Terence Davies, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, and Wim Wenders, among many others.
During its 35-year history, New Directors/New Films has premiered scores of films that have gone on to enjoy great critical and popular success, including, most recently, Murderball, Kontroll, Darwin's Nightmare and Junebug from 2005's festival; The Story of the Weeping Camel, Dig!, Control Room, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring from 2004; Raising Victor Vargas, Respiro, Camp, and the Academy Award-nominated My Architect from 2003; Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, Late Marriage, and Real Women Have Curves from 2002; Lift, Nine Queens, and L.I.E. from 2001; and Jesus’ Son, Ratcatcher, and Human Resources from 2000.
Films in the festival are selected by a six-person committee from the Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art (Mary Lea Bandy, Jytte Jensen, and Laurence Kardish) and The Film Society of Lincoln Center (Marian Masone, Joanna Ney, and Richard Peña.)

The Last Farm in Theaters in USA

Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International have announced a partnership to bring this year's 10 Oscar-nominated shorts (live-action and animated) to theaters before the Academy Award ceremony on March 5. The series will kick off Friday, February 24, in New York and Los Angeles. The series will also play in select theaters in San Francisco, Detroit, Berkeley, Atlanta, Seattle, Denver, Austin, Portland and Chicago. The two distribution companies anticipate adding more markets in the coming weeks.
"We're excited to have the opportunity to showcase these fantastic films while they're still in contention for the big prize," Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles said in a statement.
"In the past, only insiders and Academy voters got to see this powerful, short form cinema. Now, for the first time, they're available to theatre-goers and will reach the audience they deserve," Carter Pilcher, CEO of Shorts International, added in the statement.
The shorts will have weeklong runs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Berkeley, Atlanta, Seattle, and Denver. They will also screen February 26th and 27th in Austin and Portland, and in Chicago March 3rd through 9th, with additional cities added in the next few weeks.

The 18th Minimalen Short Film Festival

In March 24th-26th, 2006 will The Last Farm take part in International Panorama at The 18th Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway.

http://www.minimalen.com/p06/p06intl.php

Official Selection in Lille

From the 30th of mars to the 8th of april will the annual International Short filmfestival take place in the city of Lille France. The Last Farm is in the Official Selection at the festival.

http://www.rencontres-audiovisuelles.org/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=160

Starting in 1997 (with the nominated films from 1996), the Academy began presenting its now-annual "Shorts!" program in the spring, following the Academy Awards. The event has sold out every year, as audiences embraced an opportunity to see the nominees and winners in the short animation and live-action categories, and to hear from some of the filmmakers.

Then last year, we tried something different -- screening the films the week before the Oscar presentation. A packed house was treated to two panel discussions with all of the nominated filmmakers in both categories, hosted by past live-action short film nominee and actress JoBeth Williams. This screening promises to provide those in attendance with an insider's knowledge of these two categories prior to the Oscar ceremony on Sunday, March 5th.

THE LAST FARM NOMINATED FOR THE OSCARS

The Icelandic short film The Last Farm, written and directed by Runar Runarsson, has been nominated for the Oscar awards as the best live action short film.
The Last Farm, which is produced by Skuli Malmquist and Thorir Snaer Sigurjonsson of ZikZak Filmworks, has travelled to many festivals in the past year and received various prizes and awards.
The film tells the story of an old farmer, played by Jon Sigurbjornsson, who lives with his wife in a remote valley where all the farms except one has been abandoned.

Runar Runarsson is currently studying at The Danish Filmschool in Copenhagen.

http://www.oscar.com/

The 15th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival Offical Selection

The Last Farm is in the Offical Selection for the 15th Flicker short film festival Offical Selection. The Flickerfest International Short Film Festival will take place between the 6th til the 15th of January in Bondi Pavilion Bondi Beach in Sydney

www.flickerfest.com.au

1th Prague Shortfilm festival

In the 1th Prague Shortfilm festival is a program of icelandic short films under the name Focus Iceland. The Last Farm will be screened there.

http://www.pragueshorts.com/?m=11&secid=56

Nordisk Panorama Showcase

Int. Short Film Festival Leuven has a Nordisk Panorama showcase in their 2005 issue. In that program is The Last Farm.
www.shortfilmfestival.org

The Winners of Spiritual Competition in Iran

The Winners of Spiritual Competition of 10th International & 22nd National Short Film Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society are " The Last Farm " by Runar Runarsson from Iceland and " Enlightment " directed by Tanon Sattarujawong from Thailand .
http://www.shortfilmfest-ir.com/2005/awards_spiritual_2005_page.htm

Corto Imola Offical Selection

Corto Imola Festival in Italy has from this year, the International, National and Kinder Kino competitions , been converted in Special Programmes made of directly invited films. The Last Farm is in the International competition that takes place 25th-27th of november.
http://www.cortoimolafestival.it/engversion/homeeng.html

THE AUDIENCE-AWARD IN WINTERTHUR

The Last Farm got the audience-award at the 9th International Short Film Festival Winterthur Schweiz
http://kurzfilmtage.ch/

ISLANDBILDER-Cologne 18th-26th NOV.

The festival ISLANDBILDER presents a wide range of contemporary Icelandic art and culture. The opening takes place the night before the 32nd Cologne Iceland Colloquium at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 18th November 2005, 7 p.m. Among the films that are screened is The Last Farm
http://www.islandfestival.de

SPIRITUAL COMPETITION IN TEHRAN

15th -20 Nov. will The Last Farm participate in the Spiritual Competition in the Tehran 10th International film Festival.

http://www.shortfilmfest-ir.com/index-en.htm

Official Selection

The Last Farm is in the Official selection for the 9th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. The Festval takes place 10th to 13th of November 2005.
http://kurzfilmtage.ch/

Le 34e Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal

Le 34e Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal will take place between 13th-23th of October 2005. The Last Farm will be screened at the Wednesday October 19th, 13:20 & Friday October 21st, 17:20.

http://nouveaucinema.ca/

Icelandic Program in Kerry Film Festival

The Last Farm is in the Icelandic program in the Kerry Film Festival 2005
http://www.kerryfilmfestival.com/index.html

Official Selection

The Last Farm is in the official selection for short film competition in The Hampton's International Film Festival. The festival will be held Wednesday, October 19 through Sunday, October 23, 2005.
http://www.hamptonsfilmfest.org/

HONORARY DISTINCTION IN DRAMA

The Last Farm by Runar Runarsson -Iceland - got an Honorary Distinction at the 11th international short film festival in Drama Greece.

http://www.dramafilmfestival.gr/28th/awards.html

Helsinki International Film festival

Helsinki International Film festival takes part the 15th-25th of September. The Last Farm is in the program.
http://www.hiff.fi/

The Last farm is on the Filmfest Hamburg that takes place the 22th-29th sept.
http://www.filmfesthamburg.de/programm/filme_az.php?wsBuchstabe=t

The audience's choice

Even not being a competition, São Paulo International Short Film Festival provides an opportunity for the public to be involved in evaluating the films, by choosing their favorites among all the selected works.

The audience's choice International shorts: (Names in Spanish )

A Revolução dos Caranguejos, de Arthur de Pins (França);
A Última Fazenda, de Runar Runarsson (Islândia);
Amal, de Ali Benkirane (Marrocos/França);
Mais que o Mundo, de Lautaro Nunes de Arco (Argentina);
O Ventilador e a Flor, de Bill Plympton (EUA);
Os Últimos Dias, Simon Olivier Fecteau (Canada);
Peça para Três Atores, de Oleksandr Shmygun (Ucrânia);
Ryan, de Chris Landreth (Canadá);
Viagem a Marte, de Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina); e
Vitória para Chino, de Cary Fukunaga (México)
http://www.kinoforum.org/

Official Selection in Drama

The Last Farm will be at the 11th International Shortfilmfestival in Drama Greece.
Drama is a Prix UIP European Film Academy (EFA) festival.

http://www.dramafilmfestival.gr/28th/index.html

Los Angeles International Short Film Festival

The Last Farm is in the Official selection at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival taking place 6th-13th of september.

The Last Farm screening is in the program named "Til All Hope is Lost" and takes place the 11th of september at 9:45pm.

http://www.lashortsfest.com/schedule/2005/Full-Frame.htm

The Last Farm in Copenhagen

The Last Farm is screened in Cinemateket in Copenhagen the 7th,15th and 22th of september.
http://www.dfi.dk/sitemod/moduler/cinemateket/nochild.asp?pid=70&id=83

The last farm will be screened in Rotterdam the 24th and the 30th of september in Rotterdam.
Further information’s

http://www.europafestival.com/index.htm

The 16th São Paulo International Short Film Festival

The 16th São Paulo International Short Film Festival will be held between August 25th and September 3rd 2005.

The Last Farm will be in the International section

It is the leading event for short films in Latin-America. Bringing an expressive selection of films in the international program, a showcase of Latin American shorts and the largest annual display for the Brazilian production, the event attracted more than 25.000 spectators in 2004.

http://www.kinoforum.org/curtas/2005/enf_index.php?pag=en_05_home.php

JURY´S SPECIAL MENTION IN TOKYO

The Last Farm got the JURY´S SPECIAL MENTION in the SHORTSHORTS International filmfestival in Tokyo.

www.shortshorts.org

Last farm wins the Huesca International Short Film Festival

SIDASTI BAERINN(Last Farm) wins the DANZANTE AWARD
The short film directed by the Icelandic filmmaker Runar Runarsson has been awarded the prize ‘Danzante’ at the International Short Film Contest of Huesca Film Festival. An award endowed with 9000 Euros and which means an initial selection for Oscars, the awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. The awards will be presented tonight, during the closing ceremony of this 33rd edition, which will be presented by the actresses Llum Barrera and Melani Olivares

For its part, the jury of the critics –made up of Geoff Pingree, David del Rio and Toni Vall– has given the Award ‘José Manuel Porquet’ of the critics to the Belgian short film ROMANCE directed by Douglas Boswell. It has also given two special mentions for MEDIANERAS (the winner of the Prize ‘Cacho Pallero’ at Iberoamerican Contest), a film made by the director from Buenos Aires Gustavo Taretto, and to the winner of ‘Danzante’ prize, SIDASTI BAERINN.

http://www.huesca-filmfestival.com/en/index.htm

Int. Selection for the Shortshorts filmfestival

The Last Farm is in the international Selection for the Shortshorts filmfestival in Japan.
The festival will be held with SSFF ASIA! Last year the SSFF was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the annual Academy Awards R, and the festival continues to be a hub of short visual content in Japan. This year, the 7th Short Shorts Film Festival will be held with SSFF ASIA, co-organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

http://www.shortshorts.org/2005/language.html

Norwegian Short Film Festival

The 15th - 20th of June will the annually Norwegian Short Film Festival take place in the city of Grimstad Norway.
The Festival hosts four competitions for films: one for Norwegian films of all genres and formats that do not exceed 35 minutes in duration, one for longer Norwegian documentary films.

The Last Farm will compete in the:
Prix UIP Grimstad - Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards
and the Grand Prix SF Norge for Best International Short Film.

http://www.kortfilmfestivalen.no/engframeset-1.html

HUESCA FILMFESTIVAL

The Last farm is in the International Selection in the 33.th Huesca filmfestival.
The festival takes place between the 9th-18th of june.
http://huesca-filmfestival.com/

ARTE

The Last Farm is screened at ARTE and is the first screening the 25th of May.
Arte is the third TV channel to get screening rights to the film.
The other two are SVT the Swedish National TV and YLE the Finnish National TV.
www.arte-tv.com/de/film/801590.html

NORTHEN FILM AND MEDIA CENTRE

The 7th of June will The Last Farm be screened at Northern Film and Media Centre in the city of Oulu Finland. The screening is a part of the showcase from the last years Nordisk Panorama.
http://www.poem.fi/ajankohtaista/index.php?id=131

POMPIDOU PARIS

The Last farm is screened at Pompidou in Paris the 12th of may.
http://fr.movies.yahoo.com/agenda/cinparissean111376319.html

INDIELISBOA International Film Festival

INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world. The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema.

The LAST Farm is in the The Official Competition of the festival that takes place between 21.april-1.may

http://www.indielisboa.com/

Festival Cinéma Nordique

The Last Farm is screened in the shortfilm section at the annually Festival Cinéma Nordique in the City of Rouen France that takes place 9.-20. mars.
http://www.festival-cinema-nordique.asso.fr

Göteborg Film Festival

Göteborg Film Festival takes place 28.jan.-5.Feb. The Last Farm will be screened before the Danish film SILK ROAD dir. by Jytte Rex which is competing in the Nordic lights programm.

http://www.filmfestival.org/filmfestival/info/festivalprogram/programentry?freeText=silk+road

Scandinavian Film Festival in LA

The 14-16 of Jan. will the Scandinavian Film Festival take place in Los Angeles. Its the sixth annual showcase of Nordic films and filmmakers, launched in 2000, screens the year's Scandinavian films submitted to the Academy as nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film. It also screens documentaries, short subjects and other pictures by Scandinavian filmmakers. Among those films is The Last Farmhttp://asfla.org/film.html

The Reykjavík Grapevine

A short interview with Rúnar Rúnarsson The Director of the Last Farm in the English written Icelandic paper.
The Reykjavík Grapevine Onlinewww.grapevine.is/?show=article&id=188&issue

The Last Farm in Tasmania

1 - 10. APRIL. Ten Days on the Island has experienced incredible success in delivering an international program of events to audiences statewide. 2005 is no exception. http://www.tendaysontheisland.org/subpage.jsp?pageID=eventdetail&subID=915182

BEST SHORT AT THE EDDA AWARDS

The Last Farm (Síðasti Bærinn) by Runar Runarsson was elected the
Best Short at EDDA, the annual Icelandic film Academy awards.

ZIK ZAK, the production company of The Last Farm, got another EDDA as well.
Huldar Breiðfjörð´s script for the Friðrik Þór Friðrikssons film NICELAND produced by ZIK ZAK was elected the best Manuscript by the Academy.
http://www.visir.is/?PageID=38&NewsID=20651

International Film Festival Rotterdam

The Last farm has been invited to the International Film Festival Rotterdam
The program is not ready now so further information’s will come later.
The festival takes place from 26 January 2005 till 06 February 2005
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Taipei International Film Festival

The Last farm is screened at the annual Taipei International Film Festival.The festival takes place from 25 November 2004 until 05 December 2004
http://www.goldenhorse.org.tw/2004/program_4.php?m_id=421&ln=en

BEST SHORT & FIPRESCI JURYS DIPLOMA IN KIEV

The Last Farm was a big success at Kiev International Film Festival Molodist 2004. In the main competition was the Last Farm awarded the Best short film. The Last Farm got also the FIPRESCI JURYS diploma.

http://www.molodist.com/go.php/Programm/305/?alt=english
http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2004/kiev/kiev_ndx.htm

TWO EDDA NOMINATIONS

The Last Farm has been nominated to a two Edda 2004 awards
(The Icelandic film academy awards).

The film is nominated as the best short film of the year.

Jón Sigurbjörnsson is nominated as the best actor of the year.

The award ceremony will take place the 14.Nonember.
http://www.logs.is/Forsida/Frettir/Nanar/view.aspx?.&NewsID=284

Publics votes counts for 30%. To vote you have to have an Icelandic citizenship http://www.visir.is/?pageid=509

Kiev International Film Festival Molodist

The Last Farm is in competition at The Kiev International Film Festival Molodist. The festival which was founded in the Year 1970 will take place 23 - 31 October 2004
www.molodist.com/go.php/Programm/302/4/?alt=english

SCANDAL AT UPPSALA FILMFESTVAL

Couple of films, that had been chosen to participate in the international competition at 37.Uppsala film festival, where never screened for the Jury. It was just a coincident that two members of the jury discovered this the last day of the festival. By that time had the other three members of the Jury departed Uppsala so the films involved were disqualified with out the knowledge of the people behind those films. Among those films are The Last Farm, Circus by Thomas Pors from Denmark and Flying by Hirofumi Nagaike from Japan and some other films as well.

The Festival even tried to cover up this scandal but failed.

This has been confirmed by the Festival programmer Christoffer Olofsson.

7th Aarhus filmfestival

The Last Farm is screened at the 7th Aarhus filmfestival as a part of a showcase for the award winners from Nordisk Panorama 2004. The screening is 30. October at 1800 pm.
www.aarhusfilmfestival.dk

46th Nordic Film Days Lübeck

The Last farm to the 46th Nordic Film Days Lübeck
http://www.luebeck.de/filmtage/04/index.html

23. Uppsala International filmfestival.

The Last farm is in the International Competition at the 23. Uppsala International filmfestival. The festival will take place 18-24 October .
Runar Runarsson the director will be attending the festival the 20. to the 24. of October.
http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/

Magni Agustsson

Magni Agustsson The Last farm cinema photographer has a web page with some examples of his work and some other information’s about him self at
http://magniagustsson.com.

Bergen International film festival 2004.

The award winners from Nordisk Panorama 2004 are screened 14-20 October at Bergen International film festival 2004. http://www.biff.no/2004/index.php3?Eng=Ja&ID=ProgramEng&ID2=Filmprogram&ID3=11

In cinema in Iceland

The Last farm will be screened before Fridriks Thors Fridriksson Niceland in Icelandic cinemas from the 9. of October. Both films are produced by ZikZak filmworks. Fridriksson is also a co-producer of The Last Farm.
www.zikzak.is

Grímur Hákonarson

Grímur Hákonarson (Iceland) who got the Canal + Prize for his short film THE LAST WORDS OF HREGGVIDUR at the Nordisk panorama is good friend and a x-coworker of Runar Runarsson the director of The Last Farm. In 1996 they founded the Óháðakvikmyndagerðin which is a registered none profitable organization in Iceland with the purpose of cooperation between members in film events and independent film making.Today the organization has been the center of dozens shorts and documentaries. Both have been the two Directors of 'Oháðakvikmyndagerðin since it was founded.
Together they made the shortfilms, Toiletculture and Oiko-logos.
http://www.nordiskpanorama.com/

Kjartan Sveinsson

síðasti bærinn (the last farm), the icelandic short film scored by sigur rós's kjartan sveinsson, has won the the prize of best nordic short film at this year's nordisk panorama film festival. the film, directed by rúnar rúnarsson, is about an aged farmer and his wife who live in the last remaining farm in an icelandic valley. kjartan's score, which features strings only, is not likely to be released so we would like to give people a listen on the site. you can download the first song of the soundtrack here. http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/

1.PRICE AT NORDISK PANORAMA

Winners of Nordisk Panorama 2004:
The Nordic Short Film Award:
THE LAST FARM Rúnar Rúnarsson (Iceland)

The Nordic Documentary Award shared between:
FATHER TO SON, Visa Koiso-Kanttila (Finland)
ROCKET BROTHERS, Kasper Torsting (Denmark)

Canal + Prize:
THE LAST WORDS OF HREGGVIDUR, Grímur Hákonarson (Iceland)

The Audience Prize:
JERUSALEM MY LOVE, Jeppe Rønde (Denmark)

SPECIAL MENTIONS
Short Film:
FRAGILE, Jens Jonsson (Sweden)
NIGHTSHIFT, Simo Koivunen, Samppa Kukkonen and Sara Wahl (Finland)
Documentary:
JERUSALEM MY LOVE, Jeppe Rønde (Denmark)

SHORT FILM JURY
Anke Lindenkamp,
international TV buyer from ZDF/Arte in Germany
Raimo Niemi,
Finnish filmmaker, winner of last year's Nordic Short Film Award with the film SCATTERED IN THE WIND
Marni McArthur,
from the short film festival Brief Encounters in UK

DOCUMENTARY JURY
Mika Ronkainen,
documentary director from Finland and winner of last year's Nordic Documentary Award for his film SCREAMING MEN
Mary Kerr
from the documentary festival Silver Docs in USA
Sam Bickley,
Deputy Commissioning Editor, Channel 4 Documentaries, London
http://www.nordiskpanorama.com/

Nordisk panorama 2004

The last farm will be in competition at Nordisk panorama 2004. The festival will take place in Reykjavik. 24.-28sept.
http://www.nordiskpanorama.com/

Edinburgh international filmfestival 17-28 august

The Last farm is world premier at the Edinburgh international film festival 17-28 august
http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/

The Last Farm/Info

Original Title: Síðasti bærinn
English title The Last Farm
Original language: Icelandic
Sub titled version: English
Type of film (feature, short, documentary)Short
Genre (drama, comedy etc.) Drama
Year of production: 2004
Date of theatrical release in Iceland : 10. Oktober
International release: Edinburgh, August 2004

Awards & Nominations

Best shortfilm Nordisk Panorama 2004

Best shortfilm Kiev International Film Festival Molodist 2004

FIPRESCI JURY DIPLOMA
For the best shortfilm Kiev International Film Festival Molodist 2004

Best Short at EDDA awards 2004 The annual Icelandic film Academy awards.

Nomination for Jón Sigurbjörnsson in Edda Award 2004 The annual Icelandic film Academy awards.
Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role

DANZANTE AWARD - Best film of the Huesca Film festival 2005

The jury of the critics- Special mention at the Huesca Film festival 2005

Jury´s special mention- Shortshorts Filmfestival Tokyo 2005

The audience's choice-The 16th São Paulo International Short Film Festival 2005

Honorary Distinction- Drama International Short Film Festival 2005

Audience-award at the 9th International Short Film Festival Winterthur Schweiz 2005

Best Film of Spiritual Competition of 10th International & 22nd National Short Film Festival of theIranian Young Cinema Society in Iran 2005

Oscar nomination 2006

New Directors / New Films, MoMA NY (2006)

Best Live Action Short- Durango Independent Film Festival 2006

Internatnional Award at the Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim 2006

First Price at The MUNICH INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2006

Prémio Melhor Final - The Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Jovem de Espinho 2006

Golden Horse Man Youth Oscar - Filmfest Dresden 2006

ARTE Short Film Prize - Filmfest Dresden 2006

The Jurys special mention - THE CINEMA CORTO IN BRA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2006

Best Narrative Short Film - Magma Filmfestival 2006

Producer: Thor S. Sigurjonsson, Skuli Fr. Malmquist
Production company: Zik Zak Filmworks
Tel: +354 5112019, Fax: +354 5113019
Co-producers: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Co-production companies: Icelandic Film Corporation
Production supported by: Icelandic Film Centre, NFTF, Swedish TV
Director: Runar Runarsson
Script Writer: Runar Runarsson
Director of Photography: G. Magni Agustsson
1st Ass. Dir: Arni Asgeirsson
Production Design: Haukur Karlsson
Orginal Score: Kjartan Sveinsson
Sound Design: Steingrimur Eyfjord
Editor: Sigurbjorg Jonsdottir
Costumes: Marta Macuga
Make-up/hair: Solveig Gisladottir
Synopsis:
The stage is a remote valley and all the farms except one have been abandoned.
Main Cast:Jon Sigurbjornsson, Kristjana Vagnsdottir, Sigurdur Skulason, Olafia Hronn Jonsdottir, Arnheidur Steinthorsdottir
Running time: 15 minutes
Number of Reels: 1
Film Gauge: 1:1.85
Screen Ratio: 16:9
Sound: Dolby Digital
World Sales
Tel Fax Email:Phone +354 5112019Fax +354 5113019e-mail: hlin@zikzak.is