When the Light Breaks/ Ljósbrot (Public Admission)

Una grapples with grief while harbouring a secret unable to express her emotions as she navigates challenging events swirling around her.
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New Nordic Voices Film Festival: When the Light Breaks/ Ljósbrot (dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2024)

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. his Icelandic drama begins when an art student in his early 20s is killed in the country’s worst-ever road traffic accident, one of at least a dozen fatalities. The rest the film follows his dazed girlfriend around Reykjavik for the next 12 or so hours: first the hospital, then to a bar downing shots with friends, and later to a hastily arranged memorial for the dead.