Thorbjörn Björnsson

A normal working day on a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator, receives a call from his wife asking him to pick her up from the hospital. He finds her crying.

Estranged from his father and their village community, 13-old Yona wanders in solitudethrough nature. Only newcomer Tobbi catches his attention. And a red mysterious star shining bright on him…

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.

Lamento is a romance in which a couple quarrel with the help of Micheal Jackson, Mariah Carey and many others. Every move is meticulously choreographed in a space that is a replica of a sitcom stage, and the reason for their fighting is somehow ignored or forgotten. Staged as a musical, refined and witty, Lamento meditates on how pop culture, slowly but surely, is colonising our souls.

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no longer loves him. The paths they both take lead them to Kenneth and Theres.

Thorbjörn, an opera singer from Berlin, visits his parents in his Icelandic hometown. While they're planning a party for his 40th birthday, Tobbi rather wants to hide away.