Guðni Páll Sæmundsson

A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

In the Icelandic countryside, a news cameraman is found dead under unsettling circumstances, his reporter colleague has vanished without a trace. The mystery remains unsolved. Years later, a documentary crew retraces the investigation, piecing together fragments of testimony, archival material, and newly uncovered footage. What begins as a cold case review becomes something more elusive as new evidence reveals hidden connections and unanswered questions. Á Huldu – The Hidden Ones is an 85-minute English and Icelandic-language feature that adopts a true-crime documentary framework to explore the instability of truth, the ethics of observation, and the persistence of unresolved narratives.

A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other.

An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.

A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community, pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing that he's walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

In the Icelandic countryside, a news cameraman is found dead under unsettling circumstances, his reporter colleague has vanished without a trace. The mystery remains unsolved. Years later, a documentary crew retraces the investigation, piecing together fragments of testimony, archival material, and newly uncovered footage. What begins as a cold case review becomes something more elusive as new evidence reveals hidden connections and unanswered questions. Á Huldu – The Hidden Ones is an 85-minute English and Icelandic-language feature that adopts a true-crime documentary framework to explore the instability of truth, the ethics of observation, and the persistence of unresolved narratives.

An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.

An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.

An interwoven story of four characters in a small Icelandic farming community of Budardal Valley who are locked in a constant struggle for survival where the pressures of free market economy and the modern age are phasing out old traditional values. Bjarni (50) and his mother Sigrún (78), Mundi (93) and young farmer Skjöldur (35) are represented in this lyrical insight into a community that stuggles with market middlemen that press down produce prices, leaving increasingly less profit for the farmers themselves and threatening the fundamentals of their existence. Despite these adversities the community refuses to throw in the towel.