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In Fit Hostel near Keflavik airport in Iceland is a refugee camp for asylum seekers in Iceland. Many have been there for years while their cases are being processed.
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It takes courage to move to a new and unfamiliar part of the world. The film portrays 15 years in the life of a family of five, coming from Thailand in search of work and a better life. The oldest daugther, Navinda, was left in Thailand.
Silent Voices tells the story of Icelandic nature that is in danger due to dam and powerplant projects. Furthermore, it touches on the story of the land that has already been sacrificed for heavy industry, around 80% of produced electricity in Iceland goes directly to multinational heavy industry corporations.
Over the course of a year, we watch the bridge builder Haukur Karlsson and the musician Pál Pamphichler Pálsson at work, including the Eyjafjöll region on the south coast, Hvalfjörður and Skeiðarársandur, and Páll rehearsing the Reykjavík Brass Band for its anniversary concert, conducting the Icelandic Opera Orchestra in Der Fledermaus and having a work of his performed at a large open-air concert in Austria. The film suggests that all there certains themes common to all work, and that these men's occupations are not as different as they may seem to be at first glance.
In the Fossvogur Military Cemetery in Reykjavik Iceland there are 6 gravestones with the names of the crew of a Wellington bomber that in 1941 crashed into Svartahnjúk (Black Peak) mountain in the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in West Iceland. But the rescue team only found 4 bodies. The documentary Black Peak - a war story, tells us how the Second World War collided with the peaceful countryside in Eyrarsveit county and how the legend of the crew and the airplane have lived on for more than 70 years.
During World War II, a private war erupted within an Icelandic family, hidden behind the veil of rumors and time. The filmmaker delves deep into the secrets of this family – his family – and the silence kept for more than 80 years is broken on both sides of the trenches.
