Shortfish
The goal of the competition is to draw attention to aspiring and versatile filmmakers and encourage future achievements with prizes that lay the foundation for the next project. The Rewards are supported by KUKL Rental and the Icelandic broadcaster RÚV. Winners will be included in RÚV VOD this year. The contenders will compete in four categories divided into Fiction, Documentary, Experimental & Artistic Music Video Projects.
Many thanks to our sponsors!
Narrative
- KUKL 1.000.000 ISK – in house rental
- RÚV 1.000.000 ISK – cash
Documentary
- KUKL 500.000 ISK – in house rental
- RÚV 500.000 ISK – cash
Experimental
- KUKL 250.000 ISK – in house rentral
- RÚV 250.000 ISK – cash
Creative Music Video
- KUKL 250.000 ISK – in house rental
- RÚV 250.000 ISK – cash
rules for submission
- The films can be maximum 30 minutes length and should not have been produced before 2023. The Icelandic premiere is required to be at Stockfish Festival 2024.
- Films will only be considered if the author, director and/or main producer is Icelandic.
- Icelandic music videos are only considered If the director is Icelandic and the music needs to be made to an original song.
- Submissions are free of charge and executed through FilmFreeway.
- 20 short films will be shown during the festival, 5 projects will be selected to compete in each category.
JURY
Narrative: Silja Hauksdóttir, Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson & María Reyndal
Documentary: Jörundur Ragnarsson, Daiga Livcane & Helga Rakel Rafnsdóttir
Experimental: Helena Jónsdóttir, Thomas Brennan & Gústav Geir Bollason
Creative Music Video: Ninna Pálmadóttir, Vytautas Dambrauskas & Katrín Björgvinsdóttir
NARRATIVE
FÁR
Director: Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Producer: Rúnar Ingi Einarsson, Sara Nassim
Synopsis: Business colleagues are at a café when a seagull hits the window right in front of them. One of them is unable to shake off the incident.
Length: 5,13 min
ROUTE 7
Director: Óskar Þorri Hörpuson
Producer: Óskar Þorri Hörpuson, Jón Axel Matthíasson, Birkir Kristinsson
Synopsis: An african-icelandic man meets discrimination on board a bus, but his day takes a turn for the better when a young girl shows interest in his case.
Length: 11,07 min
High tide
Director: Arina Vala Thordardottir
Producer: Jóna Gréta Hilmarsdóttir, Jessica Li, Meagan Solano
Synopsis: When a mysterious woman wants to take a cab to a frozen beach in the middle of the night, her driver suspects she’s suicidal.
Length: 9,16 min
alone
Director: Þura Stína Kristleifsdóttir
Producer: SURA productions, Þura Stína Kristleifsdóttir
Synopsis: EIN (Alone) is an Icelandic short about a woman who looks back on her life and the thought if she is really happy.
Length: 15,14 min
showers
Director: Logi Sigursveinsson
Producer: Gunnbjörn Gunnarsson, Bianca Radoslav, Markús Loki Gunnarsson, Konráð Kárason Þormar
Synopsis: A man is picked up from prison by his father. On the drive home he discovers his father has more faces than he could have imagined.
Length: 17,48 min
documentary
HAFEY
Director: Hanna Hulda Hafthorsdottir
Producer: Hanna Hulda Hafthorsdottir
Synopsis: Hafey had a stroke at age thirteen. After waking up from a coma she experiences herself differently, and starts dancing to regain her health.
Length: 15,04 min
empathfridges
Director: Rakel Jónsdóttir
Producer: Rakel Jónsdóttir
Synopsis: Fridges are public fridges where people can share food. But there seems to more behind these actions than the mere desire to reduce food waste.
Length: 8,18 min
new life
Director: Andri Freyr Gilbertsson
Producer: Andri Freyr Gilbertsson
Synopsis: Guðrún Tinna was born with a rare disease and later in life diagnosed with leukemia. She needs a bone marrow transplant but finding a donor can be difficult.
Length: 18,09 min
mountain saga
Director: Edda Sól Jakobsdóttir
Producer: Edda Sól Jakobsdóttir
Synopsis: A cinematic exploration of Iceland’s unique treasure, Kerlingafjöll, capturing its history, beauty, and transformation through a heartfelt intergenerational bond between Eddi and his granddaughter Edda.
Lengd: 15,05 min
misplaced
Director: Michelle Pröstler
Producer: Haggai Birnir Moshesson
Synopsis: We all go through different stages in life. But how often do we feel “at the right place”? And how often utterly misplaced?
Length: 18,03 min
experimental
if i die, will i go home?
Director: Peter Thor
Producer: Þorgeir P. Á. Sigurðsson
Synopsis: A surreal exploration into childhood trauma and its effects on the perception of one self and others. How can we sleep when our home burns?
Length: 8,50 min
soulmates
Director: Alda Ægisdóttir
Producer: Alda Ægisdóttir
Synopsis: In a world of embroidered flowers and insects, two lovers are torn apart by supernatural forces.
Length: 9,51 min
that´s just how it is
Director: Björk Magnúsdóttir, Askur Benedikt Árnason Nielsen
Producer: Björk Magnúsdóttir
Synopsis: “That’s just how it is” visually interprets a poem written by the co-director, Björk Magnúsdóttir, that expresses feelings of derealization and dissociation.
Length: 2,30 min
vagus symphony
Director: The Icelandic Love Corporation, Eirún Sigurðardóttir Jóní Jónsdóttir
Producers: Hanna Björk Valsdóttir, Eirún Sigurðardóttir & Jóní Jónsdóttir
Synopsis: Vagus Symphony is an experimental poetic short film, an abstract journey without words from the primordial bang to epiphany through the seven continents of the body.
Length: 25,49 min
fragments of the attempt
Director: Steiní Kristinsson
Producer: Steiní Kristinsson
Synopsis: A scene from an unfinished film from a fictional country where a hunter and her daughter find themselves drawn to a strange sound in the forest.
Length: 5,45 min
creative music
“yfir skýin” – lúpína
Director: Hanna Hulda Hafþórsdóttir
Framleiðandi: Nína Sólveig Andersen
Synopsis: This music video for singer and songwriter Lúpína explores how feelings from past trauma can manifest themselves if you don’t let go of them.
Length: 3,37 min
“solar” – talos
Director: Máni M. Sigfusson
Producer: Máni M. Sigfusson
Synopsis: The idea for the video came mostly from the lyrics to the song. Mainly the opening lines, ” When I was assembled. On your wooden sea”
Length: 5,45 min
“problems” – flesh machine
Director: Snæfríður Sól Gunnarsdóttir
Producer: Snæfríður Sól Gunnarsdóttir
Synopsis: Mr. Flesh has the superpower of shooting groovy vibes from his fingers. But has to wear specialized gloves to protect those around him.
Length: 5,45 min
“spiritus naturae aeternus” – dustin o’halloran
Director: Markus Englmair
Producer: Erlendur Sveinsson, Kári Úlfsson
Synopsis: The cycle of life interpreted through Fukiko Takase’s choreography on a journey from Icelandic landscapes to barren cityscapes, from nature to a world of steel and concrete.
Length: 25,49 min
“holdgervingur lauslætis + imagine a woman”
Director: Kristína Rannveig Jóhannsdóttir, Freyja Vignisdóttir
Producer: Kristína Rannveig Jóhannsdóttir, Freyja Vignisdóttir
Synopsis: A feminist story highlighting the hypocrisy of patriarchal society. A woman is portrayed as desirable based on her body, but not her wits or personality.
Length: 5,45 min