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An Audience Award winner around the world, this feel-good doc is Iceland’s answer to Welcome to Wrexham. One plucky Icelander is determined to stage a soccer match in his tiny fishing village by an active volcano.
The fishing village of Hellissandur on Iceland’s Snæfellsnes Peninsula has a population of just 369. In the 1990s, coach Vidar decided to build a regulation soccer pitch on the edge of an old lava flow, so a local team could compete in Iceland’s FA Cup. Sadly, despite building the pitch, the dream game never materialised. So he’s taken up golf. Now his son has picked up the challenge, tackling middle-age spread, bureaucracy and frozen pitches as he rallies the community. This Ken Loach meets Field of Dreams underdog yarn is utterly charming, full of humour and bulldog tenacity.
Limited seats are available for patrons requiring access for wheelchairs, low vision and hearing loop. Please contact our ticketing team directly on 1300 733 733 or tickets@sff.org.au to complete your booking.Special Guest
Logi Sigursveinsson
Director
Logi Sigursveinsson is a filmmaker, cinematographer, editor, and VFX artist based in Kópavogur. Working across features, documentaries, and music videos, he is a graduate of Icelandic Film School, where he studied screenwriting and directing. Sigursveinsson’s graduation film Bjarnarblú won the Best Film Award at Northern Wave Film Festival in Iceland.
- Program Strand
- International Documentaries
- Original Title
- Heimaleikurinn
- Year
- 2023
- Classification
- All Ages
- Country
- Iceland
- Language
- In Icelandic and English with English subtitles
- Director
- Logi Sigursveinsson, Smari Gunn
- Producer
- Stephanie Thorpe, Heather Millard, Elfar Adalsteins, Freyja Kristinsdóttir
- Screenwriter
- Stephanie Thorpe, Smari Gunn
- Cinematographer
- Logi Sigursveinsson
- Editor
- Logi Sigursveinsson, Smari Gunn
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Documentary, Sport, Festival Award Winners, Scandinavia
- Company Credits
- Sales Agent: MetFilm Sales
