Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

Focus Nordic

Last Days of the Arctic

Andlit norðursins

Iceland
2011 — 90' / Color, Black & White

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Synopsis

Ragnar Alexsson, a.k.a. RAX, is among the most celebrated photographers in the world. His series Faces of the North are a living document of the dying cultures of the far northern reaches of the planet. His photo essays of farmers and fishermen in Iceland, and of the great hunters of Greenland give an amazing insight into everyday life of people who struggle a daily battle with the Arctic nature. A celebration of the photographer and his subjects, Last Days of the Arctic is an elegy for a disappearing landscape and the people who inhabit it.

Director

Magnús Viðar Sigurðsson

Producer

Margrét Jónasdóttir

Cinematographer

Arnar Þórisson

Editor

Jakob Halldórsson

Music

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson

Contact

Sagafilm
Laugavegi 176
105 Reykjavik, Iceland
+354 515 4600
[email protected]