What do you own when you have sold everything?
Synopsis
How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture of corporate power taking over small communities. Dreamland is a film about a nation standing at cross-roads. Leading up to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government started the largest mega project in the history of Iceland, to build the biggest dam in Europe to provide Alcoa cheap electricity for an aluminum smelter in the rugged east fjords of Iceland.
Credits:
Director: Þorfinnur Guðnason, Andri Snær Magnason
Producer: Sigurður Gísli Pálmason, Hanna Björk Valsdóttir
Co-producer: Hlín Jóhannesdóttir, Hrönn Kristinsdóttir, Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson
Production company: Ground Control Productions
Cinematographer: Þorfinnur Guðnason, Guðmundur Bjartmarsson, Hjalti Stefánsson, Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editor: Eva Lind Höskuldsdóttir
Sound designer: Kjartan Kjartansson, Björn Viktorsson, Huldar Freyr Arnarsson
Composer: Valgeir Sigurðsson
Scipt: Andri Snær Magnason
Color: Steinþór Birgisson
Support: The Icelandic Film Center, RÚV
Premiere: IDFA feature competition
Winner: Edda, Icelandic Film Awards: Best documentary