A female voice weaves the story of the world’s genesis, intertwining Norse mythology with biological and geological science. Shot in 16 mm, the film navigates between seascapes, mountainous and volcanic landscapes, and images of life on a microscopic scale.
One evening, a young woman wanders the streets of an Icelandic city when she meets Sam, an insomniac photographer. In the morning, Sam sets off to take a picture of a volcano that has just erupted, grounding flights accross the country, including that of the woman he met the night before – Naomi. When she decides to follow him, they embark on a journey through Iceland's vast, sublime landscapes.
Jón Einarsson Gústafsson is an Icelandic director, screenwriter, and photographer. Born in Akranes, Iceland, in 1963, he went on to study film at Manchester Polytechnic and then at the California Institute of the Arts. In the late 1990s, he moved to Canada. There, in 1998, he directed the music video Brighter Hell for The Watchmen and made his first documentary, The Importance of Being Icelandic, about three Canadians of Icelandic descent. Following his first feature film Kanadiana (2002), he directed the 2007 documentary Wrath of God, which chronicles the making of Beowulf and Grendel (2005), directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the Oxford International Film Festival and the Red Rock Film Festival, as well as Bronze Remi at WorldFest Houston. In 2010, through his production company ArtioFilms, he produced the multi-award-winning short film In a Heartbeat, directed by Karolina Lewicka. He later co-directed the thriller Shadowtown (2020) with her. Anorgasmia earned Mathilde Warnier and Edward Hayter the Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively at the 2025 Bollywood International Film Festival. The film also won Best Feature Film at the Capri Contest Awards.
The Ground Beneath Our Feet shows the hidden world of everyday rituals of our elderly in what is their last home, but also an institution. There is nowhere to go to after Grund, but the ground herself. Life prevails as long as it can.
Yrsa Roca Fannberg is born in Iceland, with Catalan heritage and brought up in Sweden. She has a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London and a Master in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Salóme (2014, 58 min), her first documentary won the Nordisk Panorama Best Nordic Documentary award in 2015. The Last Autumn (2019, 78 min) her first-feature length documentary premiered at Karlovy Vary Int. Film Festival in 2019. At Nordisk Panorama it received the Jury Special Mention, also at RIFF and MajorDocs. The Ground Beneath Our Feet is her second feature documentary. Yrsa is an avid analogue photographer, who exhibits her work and teaches creative documentaries and history of documentary at the University of Iceland and organizes workshops for Icelandic documentaries.
In a windswept, snowy landscape, freedom and fantasy intertwine before colliding with a stifling, concrete reality. Shot on Super 8, this experimental short explores the inner landscape of postpartum depression, navigating the desire for escape, the fear of consequences, and the weight of attempting to return to the self.
